9.9. - 15.10. 2021
Martin Gerboc:
The Wonderful new world
curator: Zora Rusinová
In his new, provocative works, Martin Gerboc yet again assails the form and representations in traditional figurative painting, and its former standards of beauty, truth or grandeur, but primarily its transparent message. Though Gerboc is often also inspired by real stories of people around him, the reflexion on the cynicism of media images – steadily streaming towards us in endless new waves, which immunizes us against them – is the most prevalent and intense element in his work. From brainwashing and sub-cultural rituals, through the rage of extreme hedonism, religious superstition, and mass psychosis ignited by a quasi-messiah, to situations covered in dark spiritual mist, Gerboc’s paintings are saturated with disheartening absurdity, as well as satire and the grotesque.
Undoubtedly, his works are critical and traumatizing, since their common, ruthless denominator is the conclusion that “this is the way things are”. The artist does not offer any explicit recipes or morals. He clearly leaves the potential catharsis up to us, perceiving this to be an individual action.
Still life with breath
2021, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
Virus Gerboc
2020-2021, acryl, airbrush, charcoal, paper on canvas, 160 x 190 cm
Sick Girl
2018-2019, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
Reborn
2018, acryl, airbrush, pastel, ink with shellac, paper painting, 85 x 115 cm, paper, 90,5 x 125,5 cm
Sylvia Plath last days
2018, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 80 x 70 cm
Poet
2020-2021, acryl, airbrush, charcoal, paper on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
Dead Day
2018, acryl, airbrush, pastel, ink with shellac, paper painting, 85 x 115 cm, paper, 90,5 x 125,5 cm
Horny Hand
2018, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Der Ost Zeitung
2020, acryl, airbrush, oil, paper on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Joke
2018, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 70 x 100 cm
Self-portrait with needles (2.)
2021, textile tapestry, hand weaving on digital Jacquard looms, realized by Beata Gerboc, 63 x 47,3 cm
Self-portrait with needles (1.)
2021, textile tapestry, hand weaving on digital Jacquard looms, realized by Beata Gerboc, 63,5 x 50 cm
King liar
2021, textile tapestry, hand weaving on digital Jacquard looms, realized by Beata Gerboc, 138 x 101 cm
Poison Flowers
2020-2021, acryl, airbrush, paper on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
Still life with goldfish
2013, acryl, airbrush, paper on wooden board, 40 x 50 cm
Self-portrait in the mask of the Führer
2021, acryl, airbrush, paper on canvas, 35 x 44 cm
Self-portrait in the mask of Judas (2.)
2021, acryl, airbrush, pastel, charcoal, paper on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
Self-portrait in the mask of Judas (1.)
2021, acryl, airbrush, pastel, charcoal, paper on canvas, 40 x 35 cm
Göttinnen der Fruchtbarkeit
2020, acryl, airbrush, pastel, paper on canvas, 160 x 180 cm
Poison (Family)
2020-2021, acryl, airbrush, ink with shellac, charcoal, paper on canvas, 180 x 170 cm
Vaterland
2021, acryl, airbrush, charcoal, paper on canvas, 200 x 180 cm