Δευτέρα 30 Ιανουαρίου 2012

Miro Slovik

HIS LIFE

Miro Slovik was Born in Zlaté Moravce, Czechoslovakia, 13 April 1960.He studied Applied Photography at the Secondary School of Applied Arts (SUPŠ) at Bratislava from 1975 to 1979. When he finished he worked as photo-lab technician in the Služba,a manufacturing co-op for the physically handicapped at Bratislava until 1981.


In 1987 he took a degree at the FAMU Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts at Prague. Since 1988 he was a free-lance art photographer. That year he did national military service in the Film Unit of the Czechoslovak Armed Forces at Prague. Also he was the head of Creative Photography Studio at Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) at Bratislava since 2009.


HIS WORK
Miro Svolik is the one artist who reinvents himself artistically every several years with each incarnation being as strong as the ones before them.



In this way he created whimsical and humorous low-level ariel photographs which were pre-flattened for the camera and had compositional elements drawn in with powder or painted with water.




In his next series he worked with acrobats in the landscape, often with parts of their bodies extending beyond the frame. Sometimes the shapes of hills or rivers in the landscape are interpreted as a fish, a bird or a person.

When it suits him, Svolik feels free to rip out the center of the print and throw it away-all is in service to his unique imagination.




He seems to see no division between reality and a dream state. His work makes you wonder, "Why is it I never thought of that?"




ISN'T HE ONE OF A KIND??????









Tribute by Anna Athanasiadou




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