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MARTIN STRANKA (B. 1984)
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MARTIN STRANKA (B. 1984)

Beautiful Accidents (i) My Secret Eden (ii) This Is My Church (iii) Walking on Water (iv) Life is a Game (v) There Is No Goodbye (vi) Never Been Happier (vii) Take Me Anywhere (viii) Don’t Ruin My Fantasy

已結束2023年3月9日

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MARTIN STRANKA (B. 1984)
Beautiful Accidents
(i) My Secret Eden
(ii) This Is My Church
(iii) Walking on Water
(iv) Life is a Game
(v) There Is No Goodbye
(vi) Never Been Happier
(vii) Take Me Anywhere
(viii) Don’t Ruin My Fantasy
(i) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"My Secret Eden" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(ii) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"This Is My Church" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(iii) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Walking on Water" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(iv) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Life Is a Game" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(v) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"There Is No Goodbye" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(vi) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Never Been Happier" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(vii) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Take Me Anywhere" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
(viii) signed, titled, numbered and dated '"Don't Ruin My Fantasy" 15/15 Martin Stranka Stranka 2023' (on the reverse)
pigment ink on Museo Silver Rag 300gsm archival paper, in artist's frame
31 1/2 x 23 5/8in. (69.1 x 99.2cm.)
Photographed in 2022 and printed in 2023, this work is number fifteen from an edition of fifteen

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist).

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In eight hauntingly beautiful images, Czech photographer Martin Stranka treads the fine line between the aesthetic and the sinister. The artist has composed each of his photographs like a film still – a moment of frozen narrative, with the camera seemingly about to whir back into movement, to tell the story of shock and loss. The sense of pathos is heightened by the fact that in each photograph, impossibly beautiful young people gaze at the viewer in the same pose, with only the background and props revealing any hint of preceding events. Recalling the filmic photographs of Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall, in the series Beautiful Accidents Stranka explores our fascination with the incomplete narrative: ‘in these deliberately visually unfinished stories I seek the boundary between visual appeal and a dramatic scene that can change human life in an instant,’ he has written. Recognised with an International Photography Award in 2022 for this series, the artist has created evocative and arresting testaments to the power of visual storytelling.

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