Black Milk. Ostrava Contemporary: art exhibition in Tbilisi History Museum

Curated by Pavel Forman and Tomas Koudela, the Tbilisi History Museum, as part of the Georgian National Museum, is exhibiting Black Milk.

The Black Milk Ostrava Contemporary represents an opportunity for the Faculty of Art at the University of Ostrava to present its visual art scene and a selection of artists.

Exhibiting artists include Dan Trantina, Frantisek Kowolowski, Ivana Stenclova, Ivo Sumec, Jiri Kudela, Jiri Suruvka, Marek Schovanek, Nicolai, Pavel Forman, Petr Lysack, Tomas Koudela, and Vaclav Rodek.

Milk is a symbol of purity, health, and prosperity. Black is the colour of night, the end, and death. For more than 100 years in Ostrava, coal ws a symbol of prosperity, a new life, and a new beginning. Black Milk represents the paradox.

Ostrava is a city in the northeast of the Czech Republic. An industrial and multi-national town, Ostrava is an example of the heavy industry and mining sectors that went through a downturn or cessation at the end of the 20th century. The declining industry also caused demographic and cultural decline.

Dan Trantina & Sadofski, Save Pog, 2017

Jiri Kudela, Portrait with a Cigar, 2016

Vaclav Rodek, Demorfa from Stabia, 2018

Ivana Stenclova & Pavel Forman, Suffering of Lord Sternenhoch, 2017

Frantisek Kowolowski & Lozinski Group

Tomas Koudela, Colors of ..., 2014

Marek Schovenek, Distorted Selfie Whore, 2018

Peter Lysacek, Creative Soul, 2013

MARTINA NICOLLSis an international aid and development consultant, and the authorof:- Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom(2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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