May 2005
Hloubětín is the title of the exhibition where I present a major part of this year’s new installation called Emergent View. It concerns two larger blocks of fixed canvases with a geometrical composition. The complete shape of the composition can only be decoded from the colours that overlaps on the side frames. The installation works with the 2×2 format of the painting which is best viewed from a sufficient distance. The dimensions of the gallery in question did not allow for such distance viewing, nor did I wish it to be possible. The painting does not depict any details or reality, nor is it possible to see any such details from close up. The medium of the painting can be perceived rather through physical contact, similar to visiting a painter’s studio.
The Emergent View cycle brings the aesthetic morphology of the 70’s to life: the particular artistic tendencies that connect the sensual and mathematical principles. I am not primarily concerned with abstract geometry, but rather with a free solution of the challenge presented in the recent Collector project (2003). I continue to work with a painting as a sequence mediated through painting that is perceived in a complex way, liberated from the traditional context. In both projects, I count on the viewer and his/her emotional investment, but unlike the Collector, I now put more emphasis on the spectator’s mental cooperation.
Michal Pěchouček, 2005
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