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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue Exhibition Venue: Venice, Palazzo Mora 1st floor The ”TOP SECRET!” cycle of works was created by visual artist Daniel
Pešta for the European Cultural Centre as a part of the Personal
Structures project on the occasion of the 58th International Art Biennale
BIRTH, 2018 ASSEMBLAGE
in Venice. In the separate exhibition hall on the first floor of the
MEMENTO, 2018 ASSEMBLAGE
historical Palazzo Mora building will be presented a collection of works
by Daniel Pešta which consists of three assemblages – Birth, Memento,
THE CHAIN, 2017-2018 VIDEOART

DANIEL PEŠTA Hope (Zrození, Memento, Nadeje) and one videoart – The Chain (Retez).

Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic
https://danielpesta.com

Birth, assemblage 1.

The only timeless suffering is the pain of the mother during the same time she is uplifted, because her power of decision always
childbirth. The vital presence of woman is symbolically raises her up again, so as to watch over the lives of her nearest and
represented in this work by a white chemise, a fetish of innocence dearest with a clear insight. We think too little about the fates of
for some. The torso is a performance challenge, the most women, whose tears often transform themselves into blood, this life-
powerful energetic act of the bearer of life who, in the pain-ridden giving fluid which here is perceived as a sacrificial bath for all that is
moments undergoes her genetically given destiny, lifts herself into lost, a levy on all enjoyed pleasure, but also redemption and liberation.
a vertical position in order to take a breath and fulfil her archaic
challenge and assume responsibility for all human generations. At Memento, assemblage 2.

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