Ronald Ophuis in duo exhibition at Luxfer Open Space, Czech Republic

Ronald Ophuis is part of a duo exhibition, together with artist David Možný at Luxfer Open Space, Maloskalicá 40, ?eská Skalice in Czech-Republic.

The exhibition is part of their "Regional Space in Global Contact" concept, and opens on Thursday, Opening October 31 from 7 pm. 

Dutch artist Ronald Ophuis (*1968) lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at the Aki Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. There is always a tension between attraction and repulsion in Ophuis’s work, the images contain beauty but also shock. Ophuis makes strategic use of what the aesthetics of oil painting offers him with his distinctive treatment of colors and careful compositions. With the power of painting, Ophuis invites the viewer to empathize with the content of the work. He won various awards including Jeanne Oosting Prijs (2004), Charlotte Köhler Prijs (1998) and Kunstprijs Provincie Overijssel (1997).

David Možný (* 1963) is a contemporary Czech visual artist, works with digitally generated images, creates videos, animations, objects and installations. He represented the Czech Republic at the Prague Quadrennial 2023 with the Limbo Hardware installation, for which he won the prize for the Best Concept of the Exhibition of Countries and Regions and the prize for the sustainable exhibition. He was the first Czech author represented at the onedotzero digital video festival at ICA London in 2004. He won first prize at the Bitfilm festival in Hamburg in 2004 for his video Virtual Soul Waste. Luxfer Open Space had the opportunity to present this artist to a Swedish audience as part of this year’s independent art festival SUPERMARKET in Stockholm.

Image: Ronald Ophuis, Gacaca, Weeping woman. the genocide trials. Rwanda 2004, 2014-2018, Oil on canvas,180 x 340 cm.

Find more info about the venue here.

 

Publication date: 30 Oct '24