Monday Post 1-18-09
Viktor Kopasz
Viktor Kopasz was born in 1973 in Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia. He teaches photography at the Middle School of Graphic Design and at The Film Academy (FAMU). He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Kosice, Slovakia, then from 1992-97 at the Film Academy (FAMU), Prague (department of photography), then he spent a year at Middlesex University in London. He has been recognized as a singular talent and, in addition to many solo shows in Central Europe, he has also been included in a number of group shows showcasing the most outstanding names in contemporary photography from the region. For his work, he creates what he refers to as "diaries" with analog photographs that he hand tints with aniline dyes. He also adds text (notes in pencil and rubber-stamped slogans in Hungarian, English and Slovak), clippings, tickets, and other things related to certain events, feelings, or thoughts. His diaries, substantial volumes in themselves, are then assembled into projects, some of which have been printed as "autobiographies". The series "Solid Painter" is what caught my eye as something similar to what I'm considering doing. The way he tints the negatives is reminiscent of the way I want to manipulate my images on the computer or in the physical world by applying paint to the elements I am going to photograph. Some of the pictures of trees in this series look as though he may have painted them before taking the picture.
Website:
http://www.kopasz.cz/
Gallery:
http://www.futuraproject.cz/en/exhibitions/kopasz/index.htm
Interview: (video)
http://mikaeli.mikkeliamk.fi/mikaeli/arkisto/kulttuuri/kopasz/index.htm
Viktor Kopasz was born in 1973 in Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia. He teaches photography at the Middle School of Graphic Design and at The Film Academy (FAMU). He studied at the School of Applied Arts in Kosice, Slovakia, then from 1992-97 at the Film Academy (FAMU), Prague (department of photography), then he spent a year at Middlesex University in London. He has been recognized as a singular talent and, in addition to many solo shows in Central Europe, he has also been included in a number of group shows showcasing the most outstanding names in contemporary photography from the region. For his work, he creates what he refers to as "diaries" with analog photographs that he hand tints with aniline dyes. He also adds text (notes in pencil and rubber-stamped slogans in Hungarian, English and Slovak), clippings, tickets, and other things related to certain events, feelings, or thoughts. His diaries, substantial volumes in themselves, are then assembled into projects, some of which have been printed as "autobiographies". The series "Solid Painter" is what caught my eye as something similar to what I'm considering doing. The way he tints the negatives is reminiscent of the way I want to manipulate my images on the computer or in the physical world by applying paint to the elements I am going to photograph. Some of the pictures of trees in this series look as though he may have painted them before taking the picture.
Website:
http://www.kopasz.cz/
Gallery:
http://www.futuraproject.cz/en/exhibitions/kopasz/index.htm
Interview: (video)
http://mikaeli.mikkeliamk.fi/mikaeli/arkisto/kulttuuri/kopasz/index.htm
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