On the occasion of the Berlin Art Week Jiri Svestka Berlin is pleased to present the young Slovakian artist Andrej Dubravsky (born 1987) with his first international solo show Golden Sands.
Although the artist hasn’t finished his study at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava yet, he is already considered to be the most outstanding newcomer of Slovakia. In Dubravsky’s work the same sense of freedom and nonconformity can be witnessed, as last seen in the exhibition „Zeitgeist“ (Berlin, 1982), where the expressive painting process and the large format was set to a new trend. With a similar inner bond towards the ongoing picturesque self-fulfillment, Dubravsky’s painting becomes an excess as well as an instrument of analytic narcissism. Manifested in subjectifying effects commercial aesthetics mingle with moments of queer desire. The protagonists of his paintings are mostly young men in sexually loaded and provocative situations. Their trademark: bunny ears. All of the exhibited works were painted in Dubravsky’s studio close to the lake „Zlaté piesky“ (engl. „Golden Sands“) this summer. They are based on an almost threatening atmosphere of raw beauty, sexuality, fetish and stereotyping.
