Michal Czinege (SK) – Garden of Death
Event Introduction
Michal Czinege’s installation Garden of Death is painted with ash from dead trees that heated a house over one winter. The site-specific installation borrows visual elements from herbaria of extinct plants in the Finnish region of North Karelia. Referring to Hugo Simberg’s 19th century painting of the same name, the garden of death is an otherworldly place. It is a strange space where something of the skeletal plants’ fragile presence remains flickering as inexplicable traces in time until they, too, cease to exist. The flashes are perhaps an after-pulse, or a memory of a lost existence. Despite the powerful charge, they are now but unembodied bursts, variations in light’s wavelength and perceptual ephemera in the viewer’s mind.
Site-specific installation. Painting with birch tree ash, earth pigment and cellulose on canvas, programmed LED light.
Michal Czinege
Michal Czinege’s multidisciplinary practice explores interrelationships between human perception, light and colour. In his spatial installations canvases and architectonic structures turn into perceptual processes that take place in time and in the viewer’s presence. Czinege earned his Doctor of Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He worked as assistant professor at the painting department in the academy until moving to Finland. Czinege’s works can be found in several European collections, such as Albertina Museum, Vienna, Kunsthalle Praha and the Slovak National Gallery.
After the Lux Helsinki Festival, the work will be on display until 26 January, Tue-Fri 12.00-17.00, Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00.
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Event Information
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Time:
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8.–12.1.2025 klo 17–22
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Address:
MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory (Tallberginkatu 1)
