Pavel Příkaský: Purple Membranes
Exhibition design and identity for a painter working with environmental themes through myth, at the contemporary art gallery Galerie Klatovy Klenová. Wooden panelling frames some of the paintings and guides visitors through the rooms. Concept, typography and print.
Příkaský attended the Zámeček Secondary School of Applied Arts in Pilsen, did a study exchange at Middlesex University in London, and then studied printmaking under Vladimír Kokolia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, graduating in 2012. His works are held in collections in the Czech Republic and abroad. He lives and works in Prague.
Although he is mainly a painter, he often works through striking installations, and this exhibition is no exception. Some of the paintings are woven into the passageways between the rooms, whose wood panelling becomes a profiled picture frame. The architectural design plays with the usual reading of the gallery space and guides the visitor through it. The lower edges of the paintings sit in line with the floor and, together with their almost biological surfaces, read as portals into the artist's imagined worlds.
“The purple membrane directs light energy. It is part of a cell’s cytoplasmic membrane, the thin layer that separates a living cell’s interior from its surroundings and controls the movement of substances in and out of the cell. It gives cells their shape and helps groups of cells form into more complex tissues.”
