International weekend: Jakub Geltner

The Wall, video projection, high definition video loop, 2008

Vanishing point, digital print on paper, 100×150cm, 2009

Plebeian courtyard, RA4 photo-process on dibond, 250×100cm, 2009

Plebeian courtyard, detail, RA4 photo-process on dibond, 250×100cm, 2009

Plebeian courtyard, RA4 photo-process on dibond, 250×100cm, 2009

1 000 000, digital banner print, 600×450cm(variable dimensions)

1 000 000, detail, digital banner print, 600×450cm(variable dimensions)

Project 1, Technical drawings on paper, variable dimensions, 2010

Monument, Paper and cardboard + kodak photo print’s, 5x 29,7×21cm, 2009

Jakub Geltner

I work with available digital tools - in my work I use only digital media

I see digital technologies as the best medium of visual language of today the most important thing in my work is computer which helps me generate, edit and present images.

I believe that the development of digital image strongly influences the perception of the world in which we live; all topics and themes I process are connected with the ethos of technical images

I am interested in the space around us - the landscape

I am interested in the transformation of natural landscapes and human landscapes and their interpenetration. Till now I have chosen to process in my work social topics such as technology, architecture, urbanism, totalitarianism, dystopia, utopia

Jakub Geltner

Born 1981 in Karlovy Vary, lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.

Education

2001 – 2004, Czech Technical Univesity in Prague, Faculty of Architecture
2007 – present, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
2010 – Korean National University of Arts, Seoul

Group Exhibitions

2010
Across Today, National Gallery Prague
Art Moves Festival, 3rd International Festival of Art on Billboards, Toruń, Poland
Shadows of Past Utopias, Gallery of National technical library, Prague
We Are Waiting for the Perfect Wave, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
I would like to have your problems, Langhans gallery, Prague

2009
Lidové utopie, New building of National Museum, Prague
Underground City, Divus Unit 30, London
Born 1989, St.Andra church, Graz

2008
Sketchstorming, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
Free Pivo, GAVU, Prague

Awards and competitions

First prize - Billboard Competition, 3rd Festival of Art on Billboards Art Moves, 2010
Finalist - Prize NG 333, National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic, 2010

http://www.geltner.cz/

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