geukens & de vil contemporary art gallery antwerp knokke special events: UN-SCR-1325 power of drawing artists of the gallery:sophie kuijken ruben bellinkx bert de beul peter de meyer masashi echigo herbert hamak gideon kiefer peter lindbergh sofie muller jaromir novotny daniel pitin
My paintings are based on film, theatre and photography aesthetics. The film scene itself played an important role: it enabled me to transform reality into an artificial space of the painting and therefore move freely on the borderline between abstraction and narrative content. Gradually a game started to emerge, a game where personal memories, collective mind and current reality started to encounter, just like on a theatre scene. What I try to do is to isolate the information or memories from its natural environment and analyze them, reconstruct them again through a painting on canvas. As a source I do not use just film, but also archive photography or Internet pictures. The topic of film and film scene has now opened for me in a much broader spectrum than I could expect. Private Ceremony Exhibition shows a human in relation to an object-scene or a space. Architecture serves here not as an isolated background of the figures, but on the contrary it merges and joins with them. Architecture gives barriers to the figures, or defines their position or possible motion beforehand. The scene is in fact a mental reflection of the individual figures. It shows their mental state and experience. This state in individual paintings is not at all ultimate, it is just a part of a process that stopped for a moment like a film frame. This processuality is implied in the painting itself. Every figure in my paintings is not just defined by the environment which it inhabits, but at the same time creates, destroys and builds it again.This constant mental process reminded me of our everyday personal "silent ritual". Our "Private
Ceremony". Daniel PitínFebruary 2010
CV Daniel Pitín GEUKENS & DE VIL Born 10. 5. 1977 and lives in Prague, Czech Republic Study 1990—1994 Arts and crafts - Secondary school Prague, Decorative painting studio 1995—1999 AVU - Academy of Fine Arts Prague, professor Zdenek Beran, Classic painting studio 1999—2002 AVU - Academy of Fine Arts Prague, professor Miloš Šejn , Conceptual media studio Selected group exhibitions 2009 – 2006 paintings 2009 Der innere blick, Kunsthalle, Tübungen, DE 2009 Eccentric paths II, Latvian Museum of Art, Latvia 2007 Resetting, Prague City Gallery 2007 Eccentric paths, Berardo museum, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Prague Biennale 3, Expanded Painting 2, Prague 2006 One year after, Tresor Ba-CA Kunstforum, Vienna Solo exhibitions 2010 – 2003 paintings 2010 Private Ceremony, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp 2009 Nicodim gallery, Los Angeles. USA 2009 Man in Garden, Hunt&Kastner artworks, Prague 2008 The lost architect, Charim Ungar Contemporary, CUC, Berlin 2008 Painter on the stage, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp 2007 Adaptation II, Vienna - Charim gallery 2006 Adaptation, FUTURA gallery, Prague 2003 Motion Picture, FUTURA gallery, Prague Awards and residencies 2007 Mattoni Prize, Prague Biennale 3 2006 Paintings, Sovereign European Art Prize, 30 finalist of Europen competition, London 2005 Kulturkontakt Austria, Art Residency, Vienna 2004 Henkel prize, Vienna Catalogue and publications 2009 The lost architect, Charim Ungar Contemporary, Berlin 2008 Painter on the stage, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp, Belgium 2007 Eccentric paths, Berardo museum, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Henkel art.award, Retrospective 02-07, KulturKontakt Austria2007 Praguebiennale 3
