| Mancuska´s installation creates an effect
through the immediacy of its
production, through a patient human handcraft-like quality. His
work uses any peripheral material of civilisation such as Q-tips,
plastic bags, staw, paper, soap or wax. M·nËuška´s
interest in the authenticity of production relates to a fascination
in places with strong emotional- social charge. A kitchen intimacy,
bathrooms, housing projects and weekend cottages, to name a few.
Lately his approach has become slightly more objective through the
use of video. In these works the camera´s attention is
completly focused on domestic routines.
— Vít Havránek
Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Raketa, Usti nad
Labem; 2002: Open, Bratislava; Spala, Prague; 2001: MXM, Prague;
House of Art, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic; 2000: Tent, Rotterdam;
Priestor, Bratislava; 1999: Detail, Prague.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: Balkan Consulat,
<rotor>, Graz, Austria; 2002: 8th Baltic Triennial of International
Art, Vilnius; Pass Me the Butterfly, d.u.m.b.o. Arts Centre, New
York; Manifesta 4, Frankfurt; 4th Biennial of Young Artists, Prague;
2001: Laboratory of Contemporary Tendencies, National Gallery/Veletrzni
Palace, Prague; 2000: Überlebenskunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
Berlin; 1999: Distant Similarities, Something Better Than Cosmetics,
National Gallery/ Veletrzni Palace, Prague.
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