Echo of the Mind by Jana Machatová and Peter Machata
Exhibition
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02 Mar 2022
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10 Apr 2022
Published: 21.02.2022
Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre
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The current topic of the oeuvre of Jana Machatová and Peter Machata, builds on their artistic programmes. The artists have worked in the area of art jewellery since the late 1990s, and they work separately as well as together. The jewellery clearly shows their common tuning in personal and collective memory insights and the landscape of the body. / Viere Kleinova
Artist list
Peter Machata, Jana Machatova
Jana and Peter are key figures in the Slovak jewelry scene. They have built their international profiles through representation in specialised galleries and publication as well as through numerous exhibitions, symposiums, and workshops - including the most renowned jewellery event - Schmuck in Munich.
/ Viere Kleinova
Jana Machatová studied jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Anton Cepka and Karol Weisslechner. In her collection Where Are You From, Jana disengaged from her sentimental memories of childhood (typical of her previous works) and tried to demonstrate her personal experiences with the political regime she grew up in. This process was her way of dealing with the past. The process of creating the art was meant as a memento rather than a memory optimism. Jana ironizes the motifs extracted from the schizophrenic way of life in socialist society but some topics she encounters are hardly transferrable to the medium of jewel in its classic form. Jana's most recent collection Portrait of a Woman depicts women, her problems, and position in society, through the extracts of old newspapers and magazines. The artworks combine two opposing yet related mediums – sentimental newspaper clippings Frauen-Fleiss from the beginning of 20th century and scraps from the book Everyday Gymnastics published in the eighties. These motifs are combined with Jana's own classical jewelry-making techniques.
Peter Machata studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Jozef Jankovič. The base of both of Peter's collections – Stigma and Portrait of a Lady is the motif of the hand. The hand, is for the artist the most significant trait of human nature as well as a means to express his opinions, statements and emotions. Stigma is often used in religious context; however Peter uses only its visual form. The hand with its palm is the place where he can display timeless symbols and icons that influence him. “The signs of time in form of societal, religious and ecological symbols are imprinted into the palms. I am myself stigmatised by the time, culture as well as my personal memories,” states the artist. In Stigma collection, the palm is the place for a token, while in the collection Portrait of a Lady, the artist works with the subject of the hand as a human trait. He moves the attention from a woman's face to her hand, creating her portrait. It is typical for Peter to combine the newest technologies with classical jewelry-making mastery. He digitally recreates the hand to complement it with his emotional intervention.
/ Viere Kleinova
Jana Machatová studied jewellery at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Anton Cepka and Karol Weisslechner. In her collection Where Are You From, Jana disengaged from her sentimental memories of childhood (typical of her previous works) and tried to demonstrate her personal experiences with the political regime she grew up in. This process was her way of dealing with the past. The process of creating the art was meant as a memento rather than a memory optimism. Jana ironizes the motifs extracted from the schizophrenic way of life in socialist society but some topics she encounters are hardly transferrable to the medium of jewel in its classic form. Jana's most recent collection Portrait of a Woman depicts women, her problems, and position in society, through the extracts of old newspapers and magazines. The artworks combine two opposing yet related mediums – sentimental newspaper clippings Frauen-Fleiss from the beginning of 20th century and scraps from the book Everyday Gymnastics published in the eighties. These motifs are combined with Jana's own classical jewelry-making techniques.
Peter Machata studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava under Jozef Jankovič. The base of both of Peter's collections – Stigma and Portrait of a Lady is the motif of the hand. The hand, is for the artist the most significant trait of human nature as well as a means to express his opinions, statements and emotions. Stigma is often used in religious context; however Peter uses only its visual form. The hand with its palm is the place where he can display timeless symbols and icons that influence him. “The signs of time in form of societal, religious and ecological symbols are imprinted into the palms. I am myself stigmatised by the time, culture as well as my personal memories,” states the artist. In Stigma collection, the palm is the place for a token, while in the collection Portrait of a Lady, the artist works with the subject of the hand as a human trait. He moves the attention from a woman's face to her hand, creating her portrait. It is typical for Peter to combine the newest technologies with classical jewelry-making mastery. He digitally recreates the hand to complement it with his emotional intervention.
Opening:
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, at 4 pm.


Wednesday, 2 March 2022, at 4 pm.


Necklace: Borderline, 2021
Silver, iron.
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Brooch: Borderline, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Brooch: Borderline, 2021
Silver, plexiglass, iron.
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Brooch: Cloudland, 2018
Paper, plexiglass.
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Brooch: LeonidIljitsch+Erich, 2014
Silver, plexiglass, paper, gold foil.
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Brooch: Postcard from Hometown, 2018
Silver, paper, plastic, gold foil.
Photo by: Jana Machatova
From series: Where are you from?
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Brooch: Pioneers, 2016
Silver, plexiglass, paper, gold foil.
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Brooch: It's us, 2016
Silver, plexiglass, paper, gold foil.
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Brooch: Portrait of Lady, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Brooch: Portrait of Lady, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Brooch: Portrait of Lady, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Ring: Portrait of Lady, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Necklace: Portrait of Lady, 2021
Silver, plexiglass.
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Brooch: Conversation with the Machine, 2021
Silver, plastic, hematit.
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Brooch: Stigma, 2020
Silver, plastic.
Back view.
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Brooch: Stigma, 2020
Silver, plastic.
Back view.
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