The exhibition called Od emocií k tvaru (From emotions to shape) brings contemporary works of Martin Kochan and it represents the middle generation of the Slovak art scene.
He's an author born in Trnava who has finished his first courses there and he contiuned at the Art college in Brno.
I think this exhibition is a payoff for his sculpture studies. Martin Kochan is known more as an intermedia artist who
focuses on drawings, paintings, performances, interventions in public spaces, but this exhibition focuses on sculpture portrayals.
That's why we called it from emotions to shape.
There are introductory drawings the artist created in various taverns and pubs, often accompanied by Cyril Blažo.
That's why some of these drawings serve as an intro. They are a bit older.
Then five sculptures are a portrayal of the sculptors' contemporary styles.
He chose to create a hybrid, absurd anatomic studies but still skillfully made in a 1:1 ratio which is new for Martin.
I think the main characteristic is his sense of self-irony, humor, exaggeration, and sarcasm.
The central sculpture is called Chlapci pijú (The boys are drinking/getting drunk).
It's a collaboration with Cyril Blažo, where we can see too happy heads, and a little monkey holds them together (the monkey is slang for a hangover in Slovak).
On the one hand, there's continuity to his previous work, and on the other, there's the new acceptance of sculpture.