Exhibition
Daniel Pitín: Summer Cinema
27 Jan 2022 – 26 Mar 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Wilhelmstraße 44
- access via Mohrenstraße
- Berlin
Berlin - 10117
- Germany
Travel Information
- Mohrenstraße
- Mohrenstraße
- Potsdamer Platz
Daniel Pitín is one of the most important contemporary painters in the Czech Republic.
About
His solo exhibition "Summer Cinema" shows a selection of paintings and a video that deal with the topic of theater and film scenography as an analogy to the reality of the complete interweaving of physical and digital reality. The exhibition is curated by curator and art theorist Jen Kratochvíl, director of Kunsthalle Bratislava.
Pitín has long worked with the language of appropriation and deconstruction of film motifs and characters, and with the adaptation of the principles of baroque theater as the ultimate form of visual illusion. The backdrops and actors depicted on Pitín's canvases sometimes serve as permeable membranes, as projection surfaces, sometimes as curtain folds between and behind which the actual action takes place. The poles, ropes and cables that control the change in scenography can then be a physical image of the internet network of a post-factual reality in which it is no longer obvious which elements still have a direct connection to reality and which only a simulacrum or are a complete fiction. For summer cinemathe gallery of the Czech Center in Berlin is transformed into such an infrastructure of interconnected masses, surfaces, structures and organizational systems, between which personal subjectivity literally dissolves in a gradually increasing abstraction.