#pragovka

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The art studio complex where I have my studio, Pragovka, is featured in this travel article by Evan Rail in the NY Times… have a look

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/19/travel/prague-secret-art-abandoned-buildings.html

Also follow me on Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/lawrence.wells/

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Photos from my show Naha Opice / Naked Ape last month at Galerie Pragovka, in Prague, Czech Republic. photo credit: Marcel Rozhon

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My exhibition, Naked Ape / Naha opice opens this Thursday, Jan. 4 at Pragovka, Kolbenova 34A, Prague .. starts at 7 pm, 19h.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1899582430071099/

Naked Ape

Painting and video by Lawrence Wells

The naked monkey goes outside, gets cold and everybody laughs at him. Making art is the same, it exists beyond language, it is exposed, if its any good it takes a risk and many people don't know what to say about it. Rather than hide behind a mirage of intellectual theory, the art work stands naked, often cold and lonely in the corner. As a foreign monkey, my work is about the search for meaning in a chaotic incomprehensible world, about colonialism, xenophobia and the problem of evil, about man's foolish pride and vanity in a world of naked apes. We are all going to die one day, maybe for one moment we can open the doors, stand naked before each other, at least once while we're still here. As Joseph Beuys said, “Show your wound”, because in the end, there's not much time.

[lwells]

Dead Orangutans

ink drawing

70 x 50 cm

2017

Lawrence Wells

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Skeletons and Candlesticks

petscii conversion with Playscii

two versions ... look for the hearts

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sféry intimity (zlata ziborova), a burning red dialogue

‘sfery intimity’ or the spheres of intimacy, managed to create an entire environment in the walls of the pragovka gallery. on the 6th of october 2023, i visited the opening of four exhibitions in the positively unique contemporary art gallery, and the atmosphere that prague-based artist zlata ziborova managed to evoke with her intermedial installation undoubtedly made the biggest impression on me

seriously, i was surprised how moved i was

she uses the implicit dialogue between mediums like photographs, videos, ceramic sculptures and scoby to her advantage when exploring the ideas of bodies, identities, intimacy and sexuality, its like the artefacts are telling you the story themselves

the deep red light i stepped into at the beginning of the vernissage set the scene and interacted perfectly with the profoundly intimate images i was met with. the artist places scoby, the bacteria/yeast culture you use to make kombucha, on ceramic sculptures decorated with real hair, symbolizing the qualities of a body. the scoby can remind one of soft, brittle human skin, which adds to our connectedness to the cultures of bacteria, and the bacteria itself represents the potential of regeneration. zlata ziborova reminds us of our interconnectedness with one another but also of our own corporeality

her painting of cell structures is marked and signed with her genetic code. she creates new muscle fiber, a new body, with a piece of herself. in her work, shes depicting her own body in a kind of post-human message of escaping one’s form and becoming another. by using her hair and menstrual blood, she also manages to escape her form, connecting herself to her artwork, and transcending her body. in many ways, she and the exhibition overlap, she puts herself and her own intimacy out for us to see, and by doing this, she opens a dialogue about the things that we keep hidden. the rooms tone makes us think about our own bodies, our own intimacy, our own secrets, our own brittleness. the area of the gallery becomes a silent debate.

it should not have been the introductory room of the gallery though, i really couldnt be impressed by the other three exhibitions, though the deep time talk did seem like a lot of thought went into it and i did enjoy the motif of a journey, a narrative that could be found in each of the artists pieces. im a big fan of pragovka, i think its one of the better contemporary art galleries in prague and the entire art district that its created deserves its own post at some point

oh, and if youve read this far, give the blog a follow, im going to be posting reviews, maybe other gallery related article type things, if i think of ideas. oh and follow me on insta

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DANGEROUS DISTANCE [NEBEZPEČNÝ ODSTUP], curating a solo exhibition of Eliška Perglerová, Pragovka Gallery, 2021

participating artist: Eliška Perglerová

on display: Pragovka Gallery, Prague, CZ, 19/3–22/4/2021

The gallery space as an open story exploring the morphology of fear.

Eliška Perglerová’s procedural site-specific exhibition seems to be the entrance to a materialised idea, a dream perhaps, or a free sequence of memories. At the same time, the grouping of simple shapes is a cluster of hard-to-describe architectures, creating the world that is as earthy as it is ephemeral. Its difficult gripability, unpredictability and instability create the tension and the impression of some kind of ritual or purification from unconscious to one’s realization of own worries, anxieties, and fears and their causes.

Eliška Perglerová's projects mediate the interpretation of human feelings, emotions and states and make them directly experienced in sensitively thought-out multi-layeredness. These are open-ended stories that have a personal grasp, so the interpretation is up to each individual. Eliška’s way of touching the boundaries of perception might not fit the “mainstream” of contemporary art, but that is what makes her works even more earthy and truthful. Eliška does not create unnecessary barriers to understanding, nor does she create quibbles or illusions – her works go to the heart of the matter and provide a multi-layered grasp and experience.

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Home office today it is 🤷🏻‍♀️ I fell asleep last night at 9:30PM completely exhausted. Hopefully this will blow over soon! • PHOTO: throwback to the summer and when I went to visit @kafepragovka with E. • #prague #kamvpraze #coffeeshop #pragovka #coffeebreak #streetsofprague #industrial #vscocam (at Pragovka) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6K6HtqHJcq/?igshid=quztehpsxtaf