Beginning: 6:00 p.m.
Guided tour with exhibition author Jan Poupě and exhibition curator Jan Dotřel. The event will also include the launch of the Neuralscape exhibition catalog.
Jan Poupě has established a stable position in the field of Czech visual arts, mainly thanks to his geometric take on traditional oil painting. However, the artist is able to comprehensively transcend this framework thanks to his intense need for artistic experimentation, which is at the beginning of all his projects. Jan very often transforms his precise grasp of the issues he explores into a constructive sculptural discipline, a scientific experiment, or completely new forms of artistic experimentation. Jan Poupě's work is dominated by two themes, which he has been exploring for a long time and subjecting to conceptual analysis: the first is the issue of the physical phenomenon of flow, and the second is the phenomenon of landscape representation. The Neuralscape exhibition prepared for the Telegraph Gallery focuses mainly on the second theme, i.e., the way of understanding landscape, its retrospective interpretation, and its perception.
Jan Poupě's method of representing landscape is neither mimetic nor purely abstract. It is more of a mental deconstruction of the perception of space, which is then transferred to the canvas. The author imaginatively bends the tools of understanding space, such as perspective and scale, breaking them down into their constituent parts in order to build a new landscape from them. The neural network of the human brain contains an infinite number of connections and variables for creating new interactions. Jan Poupě's work, which he presents through painting, experimental, and site-specific artistic disciplines, also refers to this mental infinity.
