David Fesl
03/07 - 11/09
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Lulu by X Museum se complace en presentar la exposición del artista checo residente en Praga David Fesl.
David Fesl realiza esculturas a pequeña escala a partir de materiales cotidianos. Los objetos meticulosamente ensamblados se rigen por una lógica interna que tiene tanto que ver con la forma y la textura como con el color. Su amplia diversidad de materiales parecería excluir la cohesión, pero la sensibilidad pictórica de Fesl dota a sus obras compactas de una unidad palpable. Lo natural y lo artificial se combinan a la perfección para generar estructuras que asumen una inevitabilidad casi orgánica. Del mismo modo, la distintiva sensualidad de sus yuxtaposiciones posee una cualidad erótica, gracias a la confrontación sostenida de materiales radicalmente diferentes se sintetizan en algo irreductiblemente distinto. La práctica de Fesl puede situarse provisionalmente en una discusión de artistas afines que trabajan hoy en día, que incluye a Yuji Agematsu, Miho Dohi, David Gilbert e incluso Jiri Kovanda (con quien Fesl estudió en Praga) pero lo que aporta a la conversación es tan único que está claro que, a pesar de su relativa juventud, está defendiendo su posición singular dentro de ella.
La exposición contó con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura de la República Checa.
David Fesl (n. 1995, República Checa) vive y trabaja en Praga. En 2020 recibió su MFA de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Praga. Las exposiciones recientes y próximas de Fesl incluyen NEVVEN Gallery, Gotemburgo (2021); La Casa de las Artes de Brno (2021); y SVIT Gallery, Praga (2022). Ha expuesto en Georg Kargl Box Fine Arts, Viena (2020); Karlin Studios, Praga (2020); Galería Castlefield, Manchester (2018); y la Galería Nacional de Praga (2016-2017), entre otros. Desde 2016 forma parte de un dúo artístico junto a Sláva Sobotovičová, en el que se centran principalmente en la creación de textos y performances de crítica institucional. Está representado por Georg Kargl Fine Arts en Viena.
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Lulu by X Museum is pleased to present an exhibition of the Prague-based, Czech artist David Fesl.
David Fesl makes small-scale sculptures from everyday materials. His meticulously assembled objects abide by an internal logic that is as much about form and texture as it is about color. His broad diversity of materials would seem to preclude cohesion, but Fesl’s painterly sensibility invests his compact works with a palpable unity. The natural and the artificial are seamlessly combined to generate structures which assume an almost organic inevitability. By the same token, the distinct sensuousness of his juxtapositions possesses an erotic quality, thanks to how the sustained confrontation of radically different materials are synthesized into something irreducibly other. Fesl’s practice can be provisionally situated in a discussion of like-minded artists working today, which includes Yuji Agematsu, Miho Dohi, David Gilbert and even Jiri Kovanda (with whom Fesl studied in Prague) but what he brings to the conversation is so unique that it is clear that, despite his relative youth, he is staking out his own singular position within it.
The exhibition was supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
David Fesl (b. 1995, Czech Republic) lives and works in Prague. In 2020 he received his MFA from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Fesl's recent and upcoming exhibitions include NEVVEN Gallery, Gothenburg (2021); The Brno House of Arts (2021); and SVIT Gallery, Prague (2022). He has exhibited at Georg Kargl Box Fine Arts, Vienna (2020); Karlin Studios, Prague (2020); Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2018); and National Gallery Prague (2016–2017) among others. Since 2016, he has been part of an artistic duo along with Sláva Sobotovičová, in which they focus mainly on the creation of institutionally critical texts and performances. He is represented by Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna.