Viktor Frešo

Vzdelanie / Education

2003 - 2005 - Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Ateliér nových médií (Michal Bielicky) / Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, New media studio (Michael Bielicky), Prague, CZ

2001 - 2003 - Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze, Ateliér malířství II - škola Vladimíra Skrepla / Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Painting studio (Vladimir Skrepl), Prague, CZ

1999 - 2001 - Vysoká škola výtvarných umení, ateliér sochy, Ateliér sochy / Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Sculpture studio (Jozef Jankovič, Ján Hoffstädter), Bratislava, SK

Ocenenia / Prizes

2009 - Finalista Ceny Oskára Čepana / Finalist of Oskar Čepán Award, Bratislava, SK

Samostatné výstavy (výber) / Solo exhibition (selection)

2012 - Eastern Connector, Prinz Prager Gallery, Prague, CZ

2012 - CONNECTION, Východoslovenská galéria v Košiciach, East Slovak Gallery, Košice, SK

2011 - VFINDC, Gallery Koloman Sokol, Washington DC, USA

2010 - Something About ART, Galerie U Dobrého pastýře, Brno, CZ

2010 - POP-MOP: Soga aukčná spoločnost, Bratislava, SK

2009 - VIKTOR FREŠO IN CHICAGO, Open concept gallery, Grand Rapids, USA

2006 -2007 - WHO IS THE KING?, Trnava; Nitra; Bratislava; České Budejovice; Košice; SK, CZ

Skupinové výstavy (výber) / Group exhibition (selection)

2011 - Nulté roky / Zero years, Dom umenia Bratislava / National culture centre, SK

2011 - Sedmokrásky a klony, Slovenská národná galéria / Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK

2011 - ELE-MENTA GESTURES, Houser-Frešo, Gallery Meetfactory, Prague, CZ

2010 - Transgression,Videotage// Asia’s New Media Art Collective Since“, Hong Kong CHINA

2010 - /+\=X, Cape Town, SA

2010 - Formate der Transformation 89-09, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, AT

2009 - ENTROPA: Teamwork on the projects with David Černý, Brussel, BE

2005 - Slovensky mýtus, Slovak National Gallery / Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, SK

Kurátorské a produkčné projekty (výber) / Curatorial and production projects (selection)

Cena NG 333, člen poroty / member of the jury

IM HERZEN EUROPAS, produkcia projektu / production of project

E-ARTNOW.org, produkcia projektu / production of project

Socha a objekt XIII. ; XII., kurátor /curator

Kressling gallery - založenie súkromnej galérie / establishment of a private gallery

EGOART ART PRIZE - http://www.egoart.sk

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Viktor Freso is visual artist, intermedia sculptor, organiser, gallerist, musician and ego-artist. Freso constantly likes to create new critical and charged situations that touch a viewer and his perception of the world and art. He sets up a training communication field where he doesn't bother a viewer by his impressions and feelings, but he hits him straight as if hitting a target, he fires him like an explosive charge.

In each of his works, an open or hidden confrontation is encoded, whether with an unprepared viewer, or with dense curators, their institutions and conservative cultural enviroment. His primary, direct, and clear expressions contain in them also a virus of uncertainty or derailment in accordance with tried-and-true saing "table has four legs but it can still trip".

In Freso's case, from the beginning the key role is played by self-portrait, auto-presentation and self-promotion in media when the artist himself becomes a product of art, and not vice versa.

Following from post-conceptual positions and minimalism, Freso focuses on a powerful free gesture, a simple solid shape, and a principal declaration "with live ammunition". (Vladimír Beskid)

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Thanks to his academic activities in Vladimír Skrepl and Michal Bielický´s studios, during a timeof widespread postproduction, Viktor Frešo, a young, Slovak artist known in Prague, represents avaluable exception. Though his highly professional postproduction dominates, his artwork is basedon far broader context of strategies and meanings than the norm. The basic theme of Viktor Frešo´smovement on the art scene is studying his common etymological and narrative qualities, searchingfor its sense, its auracity and sparklingly initial creative substances; only then he is interested in thestrategy of his own production. In this sense Frešo is a romantic artist. With respect to his restlesscharacter and exclusive talent, Frešo perceives his presentations as events sui generis, as gesturesthat have their exquisite aesthetic canon and meaning. However, his presentations are mainlyevents, actions or performances. ... Frešo´s artwork is usually funny, with a punch line, despite their variable potentiality exactlyconstructed. Frešo also confidently works in the sphere of postproduction, though he becamefamous for his objects equipped with various wheels that allowed him to release a playful,nonsensical artistic expression while simultaneously attacking borders of constructive and conceptualwork. ...( Martin Dostál, Viktor Frešo: Eastern Connector)

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