Roman Ondak: Event Horizon
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Roman Ondak: Event Horizon
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Roman Ondak: Infinitum" at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona (12 may – 23 Nov 2023) this catalogue with more than four hundred illustrations, installations, photographs, drawings, videos and performances spanning three decades, "Event Horizon" is the most extensive monograph on Roman Ondak's work to date. Slovak artist Roman Ondak works in installation, photography, video, drawing and performance art, often involving people he has some relationship with. Ondak spent his childhood and adolescence in Czechoslovakia, then relatively isolated by its autocratic regime, and learned to understand society as an attempt to order existence through divisions and classifications of inclusion and exclusion. The artist addresses the failure of this structure in his work, while deploying the potential of other orders, other patterns of behavior and, ultimately, alternative social and political possibilities. His work often gives the impression that reality has been slightly readjusted, which in part is a tactical response to the propagandistic alterations of image and word that were the norm during the artist's formative years.
Year: 2024
Editor: Roman Ondak
Managing Editor: Martin Janda
Authors: Rainer Fuchs, Friedrich Meschede, Katrina M. Brown
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König und Franz König
Distributer: Buchhandlung Walther König
Language: Englisch
Pages: 432
Hardcover
ISBN: 9783753306452
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Roman Ondak: Infinitum" at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona (12 may – 23 Nov 2023) this catalogue with more than four hundred illustrations, installations, photographs, drawings, videos and performances spanning three decades, "Event Horizon" is the most extensive monograph on Roman Ondak's work to date. Slovak artist Roman Ondak works in installation, photography, video, drawing and performance art, often involving people he has some relationship with. Ondak spent his childhood and adolescence in Czechoslovakia, then relatively isolated by its autocratic regime, and learned to understand society as an attempt to order existence through divisions and classifications of inclusion and exclusion. The artist addresses the failure of this structure in his work, while deploying the potential of other orders, other patterns of behavior and, ultimately, alternative social and political possibilities. His work often gives the impression that reality has been slightly readjusted, which in part is a tactical response to the propagandistic alterations of image and word that were the norm during the artist's formative years.
Year: 2024
Editor: Roman Ondak
Managing Editor: Martin Janda
Authors: Rainer Fuchs, Friedrich Meschede, Katrina M. Brown
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König und Franz König
Distributer: Buchhandlung Walther König
Language: Englisch
Pages: 432
Hardcover
ISBN: 9783753306452