Dalibor Bača: With the speed of asphalt and the danger of glass

WARNING

There are unpredictable objects by a sculptor obsessed with national symbols threatening with the speed of asphalt and the danger of glass.

Emotionally rooted and naive, the national symbols pose a threat to a bold interest in one’s own history.

The author’s obsession with symbols as the core of national enmity towards the Other threaten with obstinacy and tenacity.

Material, content and intention here ganged up against intellectual laziness, emotional indolence and the ideal of weakness.

Palo Fabuš

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In the upcoming exhibition the Slovak sculptor Dalibor Bača putties glass with asphalt. Through several installations demanding of space and technology these meaning-making materials promise to work with the polarity of dimensions such as, e. g., transparency, malleability or stability, and by so doing, to capture, in an original way, practical and symbolic, personal, natural or social forms of tension. Based on the specific qualities of the materials used, the author intends to subject the installations to dangerous structural transformations in time and with the risk of a spectacular collapse stay true to the grand space of Perla.

During the opening of the exhibition the author will be assisted by Tomáš Džadoň, a Slovak authority in the field of reckless laying of heavy loads on the shoulders of living people, in the setting-up of one of the larger installations.

Supported from public funds by the Fond na podporu umenia. The project was supported by the citizens’ association IVÁNSKA 21.