Lubomir TYPLT - Turbine at night | Prague | Galerie Vernon City | 28/07 - 27/09/09
Lubomir Typlt (1975)
The title of the exhibition for Vernon City Gallery is derived from the title of one of the artist’s key paintings: TURBINE AT NIGHT (2008) is a Duchampesque absurdist construction that with its signal dichromatic quality oscillates between abstraction and objectivity, flat painting, and a designed technical outline, to realise a kind of utopian object. The meaning of the title is a reference to the ‘life of technology’, which, unlike man, works constantly, without rest, day and night.
The project follows the structure of the exhibition spaces and is thus divided up into three parts. The first, opening part presents large-format paintings and drawings that contain dynamic motifs of mechanical abstraction creating interconnected structural links. The second part comprises a selection of figural, sarcastically toned and vividly coloured gouaches and temperas. The third room is dominated by a spatial installation made out of found useful objects, which appear in parallel as motifs in Typlt’s paintings.
