The exhibition project CNS at Kabinet T. Gallery focuses on drawing as the medium best suited for the immediate expression of the artist's thought, idea, or concept. The connection between the brain and the hand links the two artists. The emphasis falls on the contemporary possibilities offered by the development of new technologies recording brain activity, accelerated by the intermedia format including painting, drawing, object, installation, and New Media. The exhibition demonstrates the bond between the nervous systems of two individuals – artists and life partners.
The CNS exhibition shows how drawing overlaps with other artistic media. The cooperation between Šárka Koudelová and Ondřej Basjuk is marked by the narrative nature of their work and the similarities in both their content and visual style. Their work is concerned with retelling and personal mythology. In their hands, the history that requires specific communication tools transforms into a multimedia form. By layering images, they create a hypertext typical of the internet setting. For both authors, the default is painting. They place their painterly miniatures with meticulously devised drawings onto an expressive background. Consequently, the visualised links between stimuli and images form the final installation: a three-dimensional painting that you can enter.
Šárka Koudelová is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She attended the Printmaking Studio II of Vladimír Kokolia, the Drawing Studio of Jiří Petrbok and the Painting Studio II of Vladimír Skrepl, where she received her diploma. Her work employs multiple media, from painting and collage to object and drawing. She works with the audience's expectations, and she enjoys experimenting with painting in the context of contemporary visual culture that constantly supplies new visual data. Her multi-layered work is, therefore, aligned with the Post-Internet era. (Learn more at sarkakoudelova.blogspot.cz)
Ondřej Basjuk is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he attended the Printmaking Studio II of Vladimír Kokolia. His work employs multiple media – drawing, painting together with object and installation. Basjuk's authorial style is inspired by the Orient and references the archive and the Post-Internet era. With his work, he points to the manipulations occurring within the arts and beyond. As a result, his work is shaped by, at first sight, non-artistic forces, which, however, enables him to reflect the contemporary world. He is a renowned Romantic and a passionate collector. (Learn more at basjuko.blog.cz)
Šárka Koudelová and Ondřej Basjuk led the K.art.on Gallery in 2013-2015 in Prague Karlin Studios, where they focused on art on paper – drawings, watercolours, both multimedia and classical graphic arts, painting, collages, etc.