With love to Franciscus Assisiensis
Jan Petruška
is a young Czech artist, a bit autist. He lives in mountains covered by forest, really total beauty, concentration of what “Czech beauty” could be. Mostly talking to birds and animals, he avoids to communicate with people, preferring nature to them, which doesn’t look so vanish to him, and doesn’t produce so much of empty bustle.
Sometimes, very rarely he goes down from his mountains, just to get scared, shocked and disappointed by so called “real world”. During such trips to civilized mankind he adores to hunt people in situations that look ambiguous to him. Then he is coming back to home, and trying to analyze what it all means. One of the biggest emotional shocks happened to him, when by accident he was passing by a opening ceremony of new shopping mall Palladium in Prague. People that were waiting to come in had such a light on their faces if they would be ready for Messiah’ advent. This was one emotional experience he never could understand.
The photos represented at the exhibition, were taken within his other trip, this time to a big art event that took place in some huge cellar. Jan was amazed by faces of people who were coming out after long tour around numerous rooms and halls filled with art. Some of faces he couldn’t read, and they look very enigmatical for him.
...He came back home, sit in front of monitor. He took 444 pictures of some hundreds people. And none of them could help him to understand, why the rule of flower, plumelet and belt doesn’t work anymore. Behind window birds were singing.
Alena Boika