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Case studies 27.05.2020

PLZEŇ MOVING STATION GALLERY EXHIBITS BOXES FROM BOX48

When we started the BOX48.cz project, we wanted to enable fast carton production without the need for complicated die-cutting moulds and minimal take-offs for everyone. However, we were also surprised by the activity of many artists, who were thus opened the way to solid boxes that they can model into their artworks and installations. One of our box artists is Vít Čechmánek, who introduced the concept of 'places, experiences, searches'.

Vít Čechmánek used flap boxes for his work

Consignment box F415

Shipping box in unfolded condition

F415 box construction

I knew that I would need a lot of material and that I would have to keep the price down, so the cardboard offered itself a lot...

MgA. Vit Cechmanek
Artist


Visualization of the cardboard box structure

Can you describe the basic principles of your work? Would you let us take a look into your 'kitchen'?

Usually it takes a lot of visits to the place where my installation is to take place. I try to observe the situation whether it be light, scale and the relationship between space and people. This is always important to me, whether I'm just adding a new object to an existing space or rebuilding the whole thing. I try to install my work outside of the gallery space, my agenda is to show my work to everyone and partially correct the otherwise rigid contemporary art for me. Through my work I then try to change the established principles of a given place, whether by changing the movement, a new situation of light, or by creating new spaces. I like to create places, places and hiding places, intimate zones. This is where the confrontation of our body with a new object takes place and thus a new experience. The possibility of transference is the main focus of my work.

 

Where did the idea of using cardboard for your latest work come from?

Every work starts with a big idea for which a solution must be found. Then, when one has more experience, the idea comes with the idea of a solution. Everyone sometimes gets a big box and when they put it in the middle of the room they think wow!!!

 

How do you work with cardboard? Are there any pitfalls to working with cardboard or does it strike you as a dream material ?????

I work very well with cardboard, it has helped me a lot in my current project. I wanted to lighten up my work. I wanted the freedom to build large masses, without structures, foundations, drilling, but still on the scale of a regular building. Often our artistic work is quite limited by our concerns about cost and difficulty. With the objects now being made of cardboard, all of that falls away. So I can try and create a lot of scenarios that I've only thought of up until now. And do it safely and in a relatively short time.

Cardboard is definitely the stuff of dreams, I've seen dream bunkers and castles made out of cardboard in a lot of kids' rooms.

 

Are you thinking of using cardboard in your next work? What other project are you working on?

I'm definitely thinking about continuing to work with boxes and cardboard. I already have a few ideas. I'm taking the installation I'm going to present in Pilsen now as a first kick off that should have a continuation. There are not many artworks that go beyond small plinths for sculptures and picture frames. So I would like to present, among other things, that it can be done and that it doesn't have to be difficult to go beyond a certain comfortable scale. Provided, of course, that you are looking for this kind of confrontation with the viewer.

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Editor's note: Article source - https://www.mynappa.com/ and https://protisedi.cz/rozhovor-jak-se-dela-ceske-kimci/(interview with employees)

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