The joint installation by Marina Žiakova, a clothing designer, and the conceptual artist Stan Masár refers to the work of Milan Dobes, who was one of the first artists in the former Czechoslovakia (and the first in Slovakia) to work with light and movement as artistic means. From the 1960s he began to create kinetic objects where light and its reflection, together with the movement of the viewer or the object itself, played a key role. Milan Dobeš used rotating discs, reflective materials, optical illusions, with the works changing according to the angle of view and lighting conditions.
The installation includes garments from the PERPETUUM collection, created by the artist. The collection wants to combine the visual and conceptual heritage of Milan Dobes with design in a cultural and artistic dialogue understandable to a wide audience, it does not want to offer (only) fashion but an interdisciplinary experience. The installation wants to allow the audience to experience the legacy of Dobeš's artistic language in a different, vivid way and through different means.
Marina Žiaková works under the brand MARINÁ. She started working in fashion at a mature age. She graduated in 2018 from a two-year additional study of fashion design in Atelier 343 at the Academy of Fine Arts. I finished my studies with a show of the Pastel Metamorphose collection. Since 2018 Marina Žiaková has presented her original collections at several fashion events in Slovakia and abroad: at Fashion LIVE!,at Košice Fashion Week 2018, Vienna Fashion Week , at Bratislava Design Week, at the Satelit Gallery of the Slovak Design Centre and at PehaKucha Night in Trnava. She was nominated for Best Fashion Graduate. She draws inspiration and themes in her work from Slovak and international art, such as the work of conceptual artist Július Koller, Andrej Sládkovič, Erna Masarovičová, Kazimír Malević, geometry, colour, abstract surfaces of his works. The latest collection PERPETUUM is inspired by the lifetime work of Milan Dobeš.
The MARINA brand and the artist herself kKadie emphasis on artistic message, ethical and ecological principles in clothing design, on minimal or no waste. Under the MARINÁ label she creates variable minimalist fashion, based on cutting experimentation, play in clothing and an ecological approach.
Stano Masár (*1971) studied at the Pedagogical Faculty of the Charles University in Bratislava and completed his doctoral studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. He completed a scholarship at Thames Valley University in London. He was a finalist of prizes for young artists (Essl Award, Oskar Čepan Award). His work has been presented at national and international exhibitions (Venice Architecture Biennale, Slovak National Gallery, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Považská galéria umění Žilina, Nitra Gallery, Ludwig Museum Budatest, Mediations Biennale, Modem Debrecen, GASK Kutná Hora, GVU Zlín) and contemporary art fairs (Pulse New York, Miami, ViennaFair Vienna).
His works are represented in collections in Slovakia: the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, the Považská Gallery of Art in Žilina, the Bratislava City Gallery, the Nitra Gallery, the J. Koniarek Gallery in Trnava, the E. Zmeták Gallery in Nové Zámky, abroad ECB Collection Frankfurt am Main, and in private collections (Lewben Art Foundation, Maris Vitols Collection and others). For the artdispečing.sk portal, he produces video-reports on events in Slovak visual art and documentaries on the older generation of artists. He lives and works in Bratislava.
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