Lenten curtain that I made for the Church of St. Don Bosco in Bratislava, Trnavka. This was hanging in the church during the lent time in March 2019.
Michal Žák is the one who came to me with this idea and it was a big experiment not only for us but also for Slovakia, where the lenten curtains are not very common.
The main concept of this project is a change of a sacred space. The curtain is made of black canvas in size 5,6 x 5,6 m. The drawing I did is pure white hatch-drawing made with white soft pastel. The image shows nothing for most of the people but nothing is not what I had in mind while I did it. It shows white over black, light over dark, love over hate, life over death... It is symbolic also for Jesus Christ who needed to die to become immortal and save us. Rather than nothing it shows everything (for me). You can still see the black canvas through the white drawing as you can see all the bad through the good in life. There will be still both but there is always hope and will to do the brightest things in our lives.
Text by art director:
Site specific art instalation to roman-catholic church of st. John Bosco in Bratislava, Slovakia. This lenten fabric artpiece was created by young artist Klára Štefanovičová with the cooperation and dialogues with art directior architect Michal Žák and local community of Salesians of Don Bosco. This project was created by 80th anniversary of consecration of church built in funcionalistic style by architect Gabriel Schreiber.
Project is influenced and inspirated by temporary art instalations to churches during lent period - 40 preparational days before Easter celebrated in christian community. This practice of changing the space of church is deepy rooted in catholic using of church - i.e. table converted altar used in gothic in middle ages abled to change front paintings.
Whole cooperation among artist, art director and religious community have started in June 2018. One of the most important thing in creative process was acceptation of this event and project by local salesian community. When the doors for this project have been opened technical team have started to find ways how to fit Curtain, how to present it to local parishioners, how to communicate with media, etc. After intro vernisage in december 2018 we have prepared series of multigenre events during lent 2019 called Lenten Wednesdays. Sense of these evening events was to show variety of layers of church atmospheres.
One of the most important lenten evenings was connected with space performance "atmospheres of space" based on singing and moving of singing choir in church pews.
photos: Lukáš Nocar, Martin Ondruš
Michal Žák is the one who came to me with this idea and it was a big experiment not only for us but also for Slovakia, where the lenten curtains are not very common.
The main concept of this project is a change of a sacred space. The curtain is made of black canvas in size 5,6 x 5,6 m. The drawing I did is pure white hatch-drawing made with white soft pastel. The image shows nothing for most of the people but nothing is not what I had in mind while I did it. It shows white over black, light over dark, love over hate, life over death... It is symbolic also for Jesus Christ who needed to die to become immortal and save us. Rather than nothing it shows everything (for me). You can still see the black canvas through the white drawing as you can see all the bad through the good in life. There will be still both but there is always hope and will to do the brightest things in our lives.
Text by art director:
Site specific art instalation to roman-catholic church of st. John Bosco in Bratislava, Slovakia. This lenten fabric artpiece was created by young artist Klára Štefanovičová with the cooperation and dialogues with art directior architect Michal Žák and local community of Salesians of Don Bosco. This project was created by 80th anniversary of consecration of church built in funcionalistic style by architect Gabriel Schreiber.
Project is influenced and inspirated by temporary art instalations to churches during lent period - 40 preparational days before Easter celebrated in christian community. This practice of changing the space of church is deepy rooted in catholic using of church - i.e. table converted altar used in gothic in middle ages abled to change front paintings.
Whole cooperation among artist, art director and religious community have started in June 2018. One of the most important thing in creative process was acceptation of this event and project by local salesian community. When the doors for this project have been opened technical team have started to find ways how to fit Curtain, how to present it to local parishioners, how to communicate with media, etc. After intro vernisage in december 2018 we have prepared series of multigenre events during lent 2019 called Lenten Wednesdays. Sense of these evening events was to show variety of layers of church atmospheres.
One of the most important lenten evenings was connected with space performance "atmospheres of space" based on singing and moving of singing choir in church pews.
photos: Lukáš Nocar, Martin Ondruš
