The Common Guild,
Glasgow, October 12th-December 14th
If things go in cycles,
Slovakian artist Roman Ondak isn't shy about encouraging and
manipulating such dizzying turns of events. Where previously he has
had museum-goers mark their height on the gallery walls and broken
down national barriers at the Venice Biennale by having grow through
the Slovak pavilion, for his first show in Scotland thinks look a lot
more personal.
Ondak will present a
series of still lifes he painted when a teenager, placing them beside
the original object the work was taken from. While on one level this
smacks of middle-aged show and tell, there are, according to Common
Guild curator Kitty Anderson, more discreetly political and
philosophical intentions behind the display.
“I like the idea of
exposing parts of the past which are not normally seen,” she says,
“but there's also this idea about loops and cycles that keep on
filtering into Ondak's work, endlessly returning to the same place.”
To coincide with 'Some
Thing', Ondak will present 'This Way, Please,' a performance piece
first seen in 1999 and which will be seen at GOMA.
“There's something
basically very human about Ondak's work,” Anderson says. “There's
a curiosity there about human behaviour.”
The List, October 2013
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