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DANIEL PITIN
Fall 2010 Artist in Residence
Fall 2010 Artist in Residence
Daniel Pitín, Cabinet, 2009, Oil, acrylic and paper on canvas, 61 x 82.6”, Courtesy of Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Private Collection, New York, NY, USA
The HVCCA is pleased to announce the arrival of the Fall 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Czech artist Daniel Pitín. Pitín’s residency will run through December 2010, and will be followed by a solo exhibition of the artist’s work opening January 2011.
Born 1977 in Prague. Studied from 1994-2001 at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the Classical Painting studio under Professor Z. Beran and the Conceptual Media studio under Professor M. Sejn. Daniel Pitin is a young and talented painter who also works in - as well as being inspired by - film and video. During his studies at the Academy, he twice received the prize for the best work of the year, was the recipient of the Henkel Art Award for artists from Central and Eastern Europe in 2004, and in 2007 was awarded the Mattoni Prize for the best new artist work at the Prague Biennale.
"My paintings are based on film, theater and photography aesthetics. The film scene itself played an important role: it enabled me to transform reality into an artificial space of the painting and therefore move freely on the borderline between abstraction and narrative content. Gradually a game started to emerge, a game where personal memories, collective mind and current reality started to encounter, just like on a theatre scene. What I try to do is isolate the information or memories from its natural environment and analyze them, reconstruct them again through a painting on canvas. As a source I do not use just film, but also archive photography or Internet pictures. The topic of film and film scene has now opened for me in a much broader spectrum than I could expect"- Daniel Pitin.
HVCCA ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM:
The program offers studio space, living quarters and a stipend for extended periods of concentrated on-site studio work and community discourse. Residents are chosen on the basis of merit with an emphasis on highly promising emerging artists who have an interest in public dialogue. Each residency period is between two and four months depending on the artist and the scope of his/her projects and practices. During the course of the residency, artists are asked to present a series of informal talks and dialogues that promote discussion and open the language of contemporary art to artists and a broad and challenging public.
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