Jiří Franta | David Böhm - Fathers

Father as a worker, artist and performer, striving, triumphant and failing hero of his own world. Limited edition: 100pcs, numbered, signed by the author.

Print Technique:	giclée, archive 12 -color pigment print
Paper:	100% cotton paper Hahnemühle Photo RAG 308G
Print size / in frame:	68 × 50 cm /72 × 54 cm
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

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This drawing/collage is a grotesque sequence of reflections on the topics of paternity and (artistic) work. Schematic drawings from the old National Geographic magazines look like a somewhat bizarre "instructions for use" of a kind of doll, rather than reflect the real interaction of the father and son. My father is also a worker, an artist, a performer. The long bars that the central hero manipulates resembles the performative drawing of Franta and Böhm, when the work is formed under similar conditions and using different tools. As we know, manipulation of a child or art is never as easy as the instructions and smart books say. It is one big theater with joy, worries and flesh, which is mainly a lot of work.

Jiří Franta (*1978) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Antonín Střížek and Vladimír Skrepl studios between 2001 and 2007. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Rafani Art Group, he has been an assistant in the studio of Painting II at Favu Brno and together with Jiří Skála founded and led the Gallery ETC in Prague.

David Böhm (*1982) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Vladimír Kokolia and Vladimír Skrepl in 2003 - 2009. In 2021 he completed a doctoral program here. Since 2022, the studio of graphics also leads to Prague Academy of Sciences. He completed a semestral internship at Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade da Universidade to Porto in Portugal. He has been combining work in the artistic pair of Jiří Franta and David Böhm since their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. They presented their work at a number of exhibitions, in publications and as part of the site-specific projects in the Czech Republic and abroad, in 2009, 2010 and 2021 the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Awards were finalists.

Karina Kottová, curator

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We are interested in some game, cooperation, manuscript, mistake. Something that we do not know in advance what will arise. The cooperation is tricky in that one comes with something, the other will follow up, and that's something that we are still interested in and enjoy developing. Although it may not be a drawing at all. The topics are packed by the fact that these are actually overwritten calls and discussions from the studio.

The drawing is from the Oxymoron series, when one starts, the other continues. It's a bit like a scrabble, or verbal football, just on the area of paper. So we don't know how to turn out the thing. It is a type of fixed visual conversation that we do with each other. The name is, or what is exactly the topics, we can analyze together, but it is always open in advance.
Maybe it's a pity to reveal it, it becomes unnecessarily illustrations, because we collapse. For us, it is more interesting that it is a stop at some time and about transfer to paper.

David Böhm & Jiří Franta

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