Martin Pondělíček↓

About the work

Be the Mount Vesuvius to My Herculaneum

Multiplying a plethora of details gives rise to a whole. The hitherto oeuvre of Jan Pondělíček seems to reflect this sentence with utmost precision. His works are immensely time-consuming, while time has become the central subject of his artistic portfolio. They moreover betray an apparent disunity; their contents are thus ambivalent and multivalent. At times, we can even speak about up to “three authorships”, perhaps stemming from the various approaches the artist has adopted during his studies at the Charles University’s Faculty of Education and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and the yearlong internship in the Textile studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

The work Be the Mount Vesuvius to My Herculaneum comprehensively mediates the far-reaching character of fragments of personalities. Seriousness is disturbed by humor. On the other hand, reality is augmented by fantasy visions and time pervades the semipermeable, undulating membrane of life. The fanciful world of imagination consists of allegories and parables. Its transparent mirror provides a reflection of the depths and abysses of receptivity; a reflection which clings in the darkness never kissed by light.