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Prototyp Gallery

Artists

Claudiu Cobilanschi

Curators

Curators: Nikola Brabcová, Karin Šrubařová

Opening

10/10/2016  6 pm

Duration

11/10–13/11 2016

The exhibition stands on the border between art and journalism. It is just as much political activism as a purely poetic appeal to retain our relationship with wild and untouched nature. Using the results from his research conducted at a forestry school, Cobilanschi draws attention to the stereotypes that exist in our thinking. His aim is to initiate a discussion about the relationship between forests and capitalism.

In his journalism practice, Claudiu Cobilanschi adopts a certain agitation method; then, as an artist, he crosses media boundaries and presents to his audience the entirety and complexity of an issue in relation to himself as a human. His works thus remain very personal and, just on the basis of their nature, almost physical activism to achieve a utopian word, which is in fact unattainable. He expands a discussion about socio-political problems, the main theme being the relationship between nature and capitalism.

The Fotograf Festival is organised by the Fotograf 07 z.s., and held under the auspices of the Mayor of Prague, and with the support of the City Council of Prague (400 000 CZK), the Czech Ministry of Culture and State Fund of Culture.

Mediální partneři / Medial partners