Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard

  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard
  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard
  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard
  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard
  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard
  • Jan Trejbal: Nine Years in the Lord’s Vineyard

An opening of the exhibition on Tuesday, September 24, 2019, from 6 p. m.
The exhibition until October 19, 2019

curator: Lenka Sýkorová
photo: Markéta Bendová

Accompanying program on Saturday, 19th October 2019, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. – animation workshop for children, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. – commented viewing of the exhibition and the exhibition activity of Klamovka Pavilion.

Jan Trejbal studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague (doc. Miloš Florián) and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (the School of Conceptual Art of prof. Miloš Šejn, the School of Architecture of prof. Emil Přikryl, and received his diploma in 2012 - doc. Jiří Příhoda). He is currently finishing the Ph.D. program with his thesis on Transdisciplinary Territory Surveys and works at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. His artwork oscillates between an artistic and naturalist perspective of the world. Jan Trejbal is an artist, a city planner, an educator and the founder of the project Neolokator.cz. It has been already nine years since he first used his own method called GPS sketching that uses digital technologies to map the human body’s movement in the countryside or city for the purposes of a sensational analysis in man’s scale. What is typical for these GPS sketches is an intentional oblivion that the path is being traced, which is demonstrated by a relaxed and authentic movement in the location. The Altán Klamovka Gallery exhibits his drawings that are made by GPS sketching and can be characterized as a record of the artist’s performative movement in the given location where the author is every time for different purposes. We can see a path created as part of his studies, the personal mapping of the university garden, the artistic record of performance and a realistic custom-made working version. The exhibited drawing installation is thus closely related to the author, maps his last nine years and was created for the specific space of the Altán Klamovka Gallery in terms of both the limited gallery space and post-conceptual drawing. Jan Trejbal’s exhibited artwork shows the current trend in contemporary art, which is a transdisciplinary interlink between free art and science; in this case - urbanism.

Lenka Sýkorová