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JAkUb NEPRAš

Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic

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Jakub Nepraš (born 1981) is an artist of the digital era. Best known for his with training and work experience in advertising, he initially focused
series of highly complex digital video compositions collectively known on the way that video screens influence the daily life of society. In
as “Cultures” (2006 onwards), this Czech artist employs technologically his 2003 work “Swimmers”, he altered the video on screens in one of
advanced tools much like painters use brush and canvas. Projected Prague’s metro stations, replacing the rail tracks with images of people
onto the flat surface of a wall, plexiglass suspended in space or a 3-D in a swimming pool. A significant step in his artistic development
sculptural object using two, three or four digital projectors, his works came with “generator p-730” (2005), a complex two-minute animated
juxtapose a diversity of still and moving images and sounds to create montage of real video footage of the daily life of a city on the backdrop
aesthetically striking video-collages, or “video-paintings”, as the artist of an electrical circuit board. while still at the outset of his creative
likes to refer to them. He creates seething superstructures pulsating life, Jakub Nepraš has already made significant headway not only in
with movement and flow, achieving a surprising level of detail. Nepraš exploring the potentials of technology for artistic expression, but also
tackles grand philosophical and scientific themes such as the future of in examining some of the key themes facing nature and society at the
information society, evolution, genesis, extinction and time. start of the New Millennium.
Marek Tomin

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2008 PLExI OBJECT vIDEO INSTALATION 40x36x32 IN. /100x90x80 CM. 1 MINUTE LOOP 2007 vIDEOPAINTINg / INSTALATION AND vIDEO PROJECTION
Ancient impressions resem-
ble the first organisms that
existed on earth long ago,
and combined with other
single-celled organisms to
form progressive steps in
the complex progress of life
on earth. The fossil’s semi-
transparent outer walls give
space to reveal the reac-
tions of the final phases of
evolution - this is also how I
perceive modern civilization
and manipulated nature.
In our present communica-
tion revolution, with it’s new
technologies and global
consumption, the world
tends towards higher infla-
tion and homogenization
of connected nature. After
over-saturation and break-
down, the solution natu-
rally hardens and solidifies.
After some time a new cycle
begins, but where the first
life-giving impulses come
from we do not know.
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