{"id":4882,"date":"2025-04-22T06:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/exhibitions\/work-as-a-trace-as-a-place\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:55:33","slug":"work-as-a-trace-as-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/exhibitions\/work-as-a-trace-as-a-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Work as a Trace as a Place\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group preto\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Pia\u010dek<br>29.04 \u2013 14.06.2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">exhibition orchestrator<br>Anetta Mona Chi\u0219a<br>essay by Jan Z\u00e1le\u0161\u00e1k<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This exhibition brings together several years of engagement with the soft and the solid, tracing material journeys mapped in stone: from limestone to crystalline form, from mountain to studio, from raw block to sculpted object. It also considers the environmental histories embedded in each piece\u2014the void left behind in the quarry, the dust inhaled by the artist, the uncertain future of these forms as they continue their material evolution.<br>For Martin Pia\u010dek, work is both imperative and duty\u2014a calling and a compulsion. It demands bodily presence, drawing on physical strength and emotional resilience. His practice embraces slowness, repetition, and vulnerability, deliberately resisting the speed and detachment of digital fabrication. The sculptor\u2019s body becomes an extension of his tools, where thought and touch converge into a singular, continuous act. In this space, mind and material shape one another, beyond the limits of intention or control.<br>(Anetta Mona Chi\u0219a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martin Pia\u010dek (SK) is an artist, educator, and head of the VVV Studio (Visual\u2013Verbal\u2013Public) at the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. Trained as a sculptor, he works across various media to critically re-examine traditional sculptural techniques, materials, and the politics of monuments. His practice explores themes of memory, national myths, and, more recently, environmental histories. Beyond his artistic and pedagogical work, Pia\u010dek is active in curatorial projects, public space interventions, and civic initiatives such as Public Pedestal, DiStO, and KU .BA. He is currently involved in the Freedom Monument project in Ve\u013ek\u00e1 Ma\u010da and leads the discoursive platform Liquid Dogmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anetta Mona Chi\u015fa is an artist whose practice spans installation, video, performance, and sculpture, deeply engaging with themes of materiality, and interdisciplinarity. Born in Romania and based in Prague, she approaches the world through a lens of attentiveness, seeking to experience reality as a continuous flow rather than a collection of discrete objects governed by physical laws.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Pia\u010dek<br \/>\n29.04 \u2013 14.06.2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthallebega.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}