Miro Svolik (Czech Republic)

Photography (1986 - 2008)

Programme: Galeria 111, plac Żołnierza Polskiego 11 Friday (20.03) Start 20:00

Born in 1960 in Złote Morawce (former Czechoslovakia). He graduated from Applied Photography from the Secondary High School of  Applied Arts in Bratislava. In the eighties he studied at the legendary Academy of Arts FAMU in Prague. Since 2007 a curator at the Bazilika Gallery in Czeskie Budziejowice.
With his artistic activity he introduced a kind of liveliness to the Czechoslovakian photography of those years. Together with Robo Kocan and Tono
Stano they form a group known under the name of Slovakian new wave. At the FAMU dorm there was created a cycle entitled: My life as a human being which consisted of displays full of incredible situations made of human bodies inscribed within the landscape created by him, photographed from the tops of tower-blocks. Svolik with his unusual imagination creates images full of fantasy , humour and simplicity . Following his photo stories one has an impression that the author blurs the border between the reality and a dream. A returning subject of the artist's photography is nudity, e.g. the cycle Flowers of ecstasy. He often touches existential topics approaching them with a distance and a wink of the eye.