Baptism and presentation of a new monograph - a visually suggestive publication mapping the BABYLON project and the latest work by Michal Škapa.

 Michal Škapa  - BABYLON
21. 11. 2018 - 27. 1 2019

The exhibition titled BABYLON presents the current work of one of our most outstanding authors associated with the Czech graffiti scene – Michal Škapa a.k.a. TRON. Unlike his previous projects, this exhibition does not focus only on one part of his work, but offers a unique opportunity to explore almost the complete spectrum of the visual manifestations Škapa has created in recent years.

The first major part of the exhibition presents work using letters as dynamic abstract characters with a strong emotional charge and cryptographic content emanating from Škapa’s graffiti roots. The second, dominating part presents a more realistic perspective: the ironic scenes, originally derived from the world of comics and cartoons, are gradually transformed into images of compressions whose dense composition was first inspired by the footage taken after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Later, the initial apocalyptic character of this memento subsided into the background to focus on slightly dystopic material dealing with continuous multiplication, consumption, and spontaneous creativity. The exhibition also presents a fusion of these two areas of Škapa’s work (the abstract and the realistic), pointing out to always topical issues of the nature, mutual relation and blending of images and writing as pieces of visual information of the same, yet different kind.

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