Brown coal surface mine CSA, Czechia. Used materials: brown coal, raw clay, yellow colored raw kaolin, gravel, natural charcoal, acrylic,... Read More
Brown coal surface mine CSA, Czechia.
Used
materials: brown coal, raw clay, yellow colored raw kaolin, gravel, natural
charcoal, acrylic, canvas
This is the one of the works from the
"Anthropocene" series. In
this series I deal with humanity's ability to transform large landscape units
for our own needs using modern technological processes. Often
without regard to the possible consequences. The transformation of
the landscape then changes not only its external appearance, but ultimately
also the behavior of the flora and fauna, which is either completely destroyed
or partially adapts within large landscape areas. This
change affects both biological and geological processes not only in a given
location, but on the entire planet. And this has a negative
impact on human society. Some paintings from the “Anthropocene” cycle are
created using a combined technique, in which I bring characteristic materials
from the depicted location (coal, local deposits, pigments, etc.), which I
incorporate into the painting along with other materials such as synthetic
asphalt, ash, coffee and natural pigments. The resulting painting
is then partly made up of materials from the given area, which help to complete
the authenticity of the painting.
The painting depicts the ČSA brown coal surface mine near the town of
Most. It is one of the surface mines of the North Bohemian
coal basin, which is located in the foothills of the Ore Mountains in the Czech
Republic. The painting is created by applying and gluing
variously coarse fractions of brown coal and clay that I collected in this coal
mine. I supplemented these natural pigments with yellow
kaolin pigment and gravel from the kaolin mine in Horní Bříza. Some
details were added using natural carbon and acrylic. The
water surfaces are made of synthetic asphalt and crushed coal. All
materials are applied or glued to raw linen canvas glued to a plywood.
Mining in the quarry is
to be completed this year. The quarry will be gradually flooded and reclaimed. That
is, at least partially returned to nature.