Global History of Art, 2006

Exhibition detail

Dear visitors!

If I had the opportunity to welcome you to the Stano Masár Museum today, we would undoubtedly enter through the regularly opening and closing doors of the IKARUS city transport bus. Similar to what happened at the exhibition in the At Home Gallery in the Šamorín Synagogue.

Trash cans made from cigarette butts and tram chairs turned upside down in the manner of Duchamp's urinals could not be missing. And maps of transport links made of glued chewing gum, as was the case at the SPACE station as part of the METRO exhibition.

Stairs, doors and other spatial details would not have to be any more real than in Masár's virtual reality. As was the case in his exhibitions at Slovak National Gallery, or the Medium Gallery, reality would intermingle with Masár's virtuality, and we would have no choice but to enjoy the absolute naturalness of the new museum.

The museum, which is the only one in Slovakia to have a permanent collection of world fine art from Sandro Botticelli to Damien Hirst. Of course, in Masár's interpretation, it is not necessary to emphasize this when looking at today's expositions. For the sake of completeness of the information, it is impossible not to mention that the next edition of the presented work is in the collections of Slovak National Gallery, which wisely decided to enrich its collection fund with the works of such authors as Marcel Duchamp or Francis Bacon.

Today's premiere of the cycle Slovak Visual Art of 20th. Century is therefore also a glove for all enlightened collectors. And not to mention the delicacy of the most expensive works of art in history. Probably the only problem remains the absence of collectors not only at this exhibition but in the Slovak territory in general.

Another of the series of confusions of Stan Masár's museum visitor would be the exterior elements evoking /New/ roads /passages, lanes, etc./, arranged in illogical and unusual structures, dividing and redistributing the Space. The project that you have the opportunity to look at today is not the first or the only inventive project prepared for the premises of our gallery. ENTRY TO THE SPACE ALLOWED, BEWARE THE ART, IT DOES NOT TURN ON, WHEN YOU ARE MATURE YOU WILL DROP.

Signs on the walls would warn us. Navigation tables to escape exits /RUNAWAY/ would lead us to rules, fame, sex, money, freedom, love... According to your choice. I've recently found myself tending to finish Stano Masár's projects. Certainly not because they are imperfect, unfinished, but precisely because of their provocatively open concept.

To further creation, thinking and change. To modification, confrontation and interpretation. Just like reality sometimes modifies our ways of perception. The reality of the nearby intersection of Lermontova Street and Moyzesova Street, where two years ago pedestrian crossings appeared, starting on both sides of the sidewalk, but never completed in the middle of the road.

Although Ľubomír Ďurček denies authorship, I do not believe him at all. The name I needed to work on in this text just dropped, so I'm done.

Thank you for visiting!

SPACE, 8 February 2006 Juraj Čarný