Ivan Pinkava’s work has long been anchored in classical photography, and he has established a reputation beyond the Czech art scene. In the 1990s, he developed his distinctive visual language based around black and white analogue photography, oscillating between representations of the human figure and (later) non-figurative work. His recent photographs illustrate visual and content purity. After almost thirty years of continuously working with classic analogue media, the artist switched to digital and introduced colour. Recurring leitmotifs of Ivan Pinkava’s work are reflections of the visual heritage of European culture, an introspection of our inner mental processes and coping with human finiteness.tion is an organism expected to be permanently modified.
The exhibition presents fifty photographs by Ivan Pinkava from the late 1980s to the present, including both black and white figurative images typical of his earlier work and non-figurative colour pictures from his recent period. Many of the photographs exhibited, both the newer and the older ones, have not previously been presented.
Curated by Jan Dotřel
