INSECT INVASION AT THE CORK VISION CENTRE
23rd August Cork 2005:
September 2005 brings an invasion with a difference to Cork in the shape of STRANGE WORLD - the ninth instalment of Enlargement! – bringing the ‘new’ Europe to Cork.
Throughout the month self-adhesive brightly-coloured beetles will crawl across various city shop fronts pointing the way to the Cork Vision Centre and the uniquely strange world created by Czech artist Roman Franta for Cork Civic Trust’s 2005 year long project.
John Miller, Cork Civic Trust, expressing his delight at the involvement of city based businesses, said, “The level of support and enthusiasm by businesses to our request for ‘insect-in-residence’ window space has been fantastic, with each one helping to showcase the Czech Republic presence in Cork.”
Ranging across the full spectrum of media, STRANGE WORLD consists of paintings, sculpture, city wide installations, and the inaugural exhibition of Roman Franta’s photographic work. The photographic themes are derived from the Czech landscape, and architecture. Thematically similar photographic cycles created in Spain, Scotland, England, France, Norway, Portugal, Italy and Germany will also be exhibited.
Franta’s work focuses thematically on motifs from nature, beetle structures, details of flora and fauna. He creates vibrantly-coloured structures, a strange world of portraits, gardens, animals, conceptual paintings, presidents, sex, and symbols.
Visually striking, and replete with a dynamic energy Franta’s unique blend of visual media makes for a stimulating insight into the Czech contemporary art scene.
STRANGE WORLD will be officially launched by Ms Petra Smolikova, Deputy Minister of Culture, Czech Republic. Opening to the public on Friday 2nd September, it will run until 28th September 2005
For Further Information
Contact: The Cork Vision Centre
Tel: 353-21-4279925
Email: visioncentre@eircom.net
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