Fail to Fall
Roman Ondák
Co-published by Photoport and Slovart
English and Slovak
Text by Aurel Hrabušický
Hardcover
104 Pages
215 x 305 mm
2019
ISBN 9788055643649
The first Slovak-English publication dedicated to Roman Ondak describes the work of the world’s most prestigious Slovak artist in a metonymic abbreviation – on the project Fail to Fall from 2010. The title of this work is truly distinctive. Ondak collected dozens of photographs recording parachutes whose controlled, programmed fall failed and found themselves in the wrong places – in the treetops, in the hands of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro or in the faculty of the Statue of Liberty … Conceptual shift of facts into new, original situations art historian Aurel Hrabušický also illuminates other creative strategies of the author, who does not want to draw attention to himself.
(source: https://gbagency.fr/store/fail-to-fall)
About the Artist
Roman Ondak (born August 5, 1966) is a Slovak conceptual artist. Ondak studied graphic design and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava from 1988 to 1994. He also studied at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania (1993); Collegium Helveticum in Zurich (1999–2000); the CCA in Kitakyushu (2004); he has had grants from the DAAD in Berlin (2007/08) and the Villa Arson in Nice (2010).
(source: https://www.kurimanzutto.com/artists/roman-ondak#tab:slideshow)
About the Publisher
Photoport is a contemporary art gallery, based in Bratislava, Slovakia.
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The Slovart publishing house has been operating on the Slovak book market since 1991. From the beginning, we have tried to bring our readers books in which content and form play an equally important role, that is, in which high-quality and demanding content is combined with polygraphically and artistically flawless form.
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