In the series\u00a0MATIKETO<\/em>\u00a0(Finnish for Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu), Michal Czinege seeks to articulate this feeling as a visual experience, using pictorial elements from his surrounding everyday life as a starting point. The focus is on finding a moment that balances between the familiar and the unrecognizable. In the paintings, however, details merge into an abstract whole and the possibility of an unambiguous interpretation disappears again. Series of paintings, various sizes and techniques, 2016 MATIKETO focuses on the relationship between universal images and personal identity. When a person moves abroad from their homeland, life turns all at once into a foreign-language movie that lacks subtitles. Interpretation is based on things altogether different than before, and imagination seeks to fill in the gaps … Continue reading MATIKETO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions\/1398"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cJust before I left Slovakia and started my journey<\/em><\/em>, I painted\u00a0<\/em>The Loneliness of the Traveller\u00a0for an exhibition in Helsinki in 2015. I was aware of the upcoming move when I painted the series, so in retrospect it\u2019s easy to see that I was already preoccupied with the idea of the lonely traveller. After some time I settled down in Nurmes, Finland, and\u00a0<\/em>MATIKETO\u00a0reflects that transtition. The series is comprised of visual fragments of several places, especially the many vacant buildings in Nurmes where I\u2019ve had my studio since coming here<\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Music](\"http:\/\/michalczinege.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Music-Room-acryl-and-acrylic-transfer-on-canvas-200x150-cm-2016.jpg\")
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