Three or four times a year the Mercury planet appears in the visual field of earthmen. Three or four times a year thanks to optic illusion it seems to people on Earth that Mercury moves in the opposite direction to other planets that orbits the Sun.
In popular astrology we use the term retrograde trajectory of Mercury for the period in a year when we should abandon our usual trajectories. It’s a period of reflection and balancing, a period of disruption of stereotypes. It’s the time of radical steps, change of course and new visions.
The exhibition in Karlín Studios offers a view of Brian Alfred, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Aline Bouvy and John Gillis, eteam, Cliff Evans, Jan Nálevka and the duo of Noah Spidermen & Scott Gelbe on our mass media saturated culture and uncertain future. With the help of reshaping of materials from magazines, films, TV, web and newspapers artists create collages. Materialism of animation itself allows flattening, collaging, reduction and abstraction of an appropriate material which enables the absurdity of current life to suddenly emerge more clearly.
