Tomáš Džadoň

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Tomáš Džadoň, Bratislava Art Gallery: Is it an attraction or is it tumbling down ?, owned by the Slovak National Gallery
Tomáš Džadoň: Pamätník L'udovej Architektúry, Drevenica na Paneláku, Košice, 2013
Tomáš Džadoň: Traditional Caravan, Brno, 2017

Tomáš Džadoň (* 1981 in Poprad , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak artist and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts AVU in Prague . His installation Pamätník ľudovej architektúry ( Folk Architecture Monument ) in the eastern Slovak city of Košice , with which he also obtained his doctorate, received European attention in 2013 .

Career

Džadoň studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2014 he exhibited in the joint pavilion of the Czech Republic and Slovakia at the Venice Architecture Biennale .

His solo exhibition at Villa Jurkovič in Brno from April 2017 to March 2018 triggered considerable media coverage in the Czech Republic . In the house built in 1906 by the Slovak architect Dušan Jurkovič , which belongs to the Moravská Gallery (Moravian Gallery) in Brno, only one artist is allowed to exhibit each year. There Džadoň shows works from all of his previous creative period or refers to earlier works, which is why the exhibition was also viewed as a retrospective. Drawings, paintings, photographs and artistic works with the typical motifs of goats, bacon and prefabricated buildings can be seen in the house. In the garden is the tradiční karavan ( traditional caravan ). A construction trailer made of wood in the style of a farmhouse; the interior is modeled on a typical Slovak farmer's room down to the last detail.

Džadoň rejected the interpretation that his exhibition in the Jurkovič villa was a retrospective in an interview with the Czech art magazine Art + Antiques. “Then I must be dead by now if that is how it is perceived. In the context of the villa, it just seemed interesting to me to bring my old things there. My subjects are related to those of Jurkovič. ”Džadoň explained that he wanted to liven up the villa and make its various uses visible. Jurkovič and his family lived in it only from 1906 to 1919. Džadoň criticized that traces of later residents and users had been deleted. The idea of ​​his so-called intervention is to let the visitors puzzle over what belongs to the villa and what he has added. On closer inspection, for example, the books in an alcove of the villa turn out to be a whole settlement of small prefabricated buildings made of paper that Džadoň has put on the shelves.

Pamätník L'udovej Architektúry (Folk Architecture Monument)

The work existed from September 2013 to May 2016 and was a contribution to the year of Košice's cultural capital in 2013. Džadoň built three traditional peasant log houses, as they are typical for the High Tatras , on a 13-storey high prefabricated house. The farmhouses were originals, two of them from 1902, one from 1965. Since the prefabricated housing estate Dargovských hrdinov is on a hill, the installation could be seen from afar.

Classification of his work

Džadoň's work shows a variety of biographical references that he himself points out. He grew up in a prefabricated building with a view of the High Tatras. He explains the recurring motif of the goats with memories of Sundays with his grandmother in the country, who kept goats. The same applies to the motif of the bacon. This is offered to visitors in the country along with a schnapps. Dealing with the concept of home is the defining theme in Džadoň's work. But this home is no longer an unchanging, fixed place. It is more of a mobile treasure trove of memories that accompanies nomadic city dwellers. In a humorous way and with ironic breaks in his work, Džadoň distances himself from the mere transfiguration of childhood memories or feelings of home. Typical of his work is the positive recognition of the much-criticized prefabricated building architecture as part of this very homeland, which he portrays as equally original as buildings from earlier eras.

Awards

  • 2007 First prize at the Essl Art Award
  • 2009 Jindřich Chalupecky Award, Oskar Čepan Award, Cyprián Award

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moravská gallery v Brně - Aktuální výstavy. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ fontai.com: Vydání 2017 / červen | ArtCasopis.cz. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Tomáš Džadoň - the experience is an encounter, which changes us. Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Džadoň, Tomáš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Poprad , Czechoslovakia