{"id":407,"date":"2017-06-20T17:24:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michalczinege.com\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:41:02","slug":"eat-snakes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/?page_id=407","title":{"rendered":"Eat Snakes!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

That you have eat a snake, and are grown young, gamesome, and\u00a0rampant.<\/em>
\u2013 John Fletcher:\u00a0The Elder Brother\u00a0<\/em>(1625)

\u201cTo eat snakes\u201d meant to recover one\u2019s youth and vigour, to be rejuvenated. The 17th<\/sup>\u00a0century expression symbolized recovery, referring to the snake\u2019s seasonal shedding of its old skin.

Eat Snakes!
Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017
Text by Vladimir Beskid, curator:<\/strong>
The exhibition\u00a0Eat Snakes!<\/em>\u00a0presents the current series of Slovak\/Finnish painter Michal Czinege (born 1980). As a graduate of the Studio of Prof. Ivan Csudai at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (2006, 2011), Czinege pursued his own form of contemporary painting from the beginning \u2013 based on the introduction of blurred photographs and techno-images into painting, the selection of details and the creation of acrylic image fields on the border of figurative and abstract positions, e.g. the latest series Heads<\/em> (2012\u201315), or The Loneliness of the Traveller<\/em> (2014\u201315).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier approaches of generating images through the filter of digital media (raster, noise and graininess of the image\/screen) have now been replaced by the regeneration of the painting canvas. The exhibited series of works is based on a 17th century saying, which means overall renewal, rejuvenation and regaining one’s strength and vigour. Metaphorically, it also refers to snakes shedding their old skin \u2013 this is the process that Michal Czinege\u2019s current paintings undergo. It is about the renewal of the pictorial field, its figurativeness and materiality through the layered nature of the painting. This personal \u201chealing\u201d of the pictorial surface can be perceived as a time-lapse imprint of constantly renewed old layers, the storage of memories, their fragments into one integral \/ imperfect painting, or the painterly reconstruction of a lost or damaged painting. To the painting itself, Czinege adds the transfer of acrylic surfaces and pigments, the overlapping of individual levels, layers and seams. Although it is a technical mirror projection of prints onto the pictorial surface, we still remain in the field of painting \u2013 we witness a living painting process and search.

This archival layering creates a personal memory trace, the restoration of a perishing image of an imaginary landscape or space. There is a certain sedimentation of time and a changing\/transformation of the “skin” – the surface of the painting. Michal Czinege thus continues to develop his thinking in the medium of painting and opens up multi-layered possibilities for reading his pictorial messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back on Ida, acrylic and acrylic transfer on canvas, 150×120 cm, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled, acrylic and acrylic transfer on canvas, 60×50 cm, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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x-Lite, acrylic and acrylic transfer on canvas, 60×50 cm, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On the Boat, acrylic and acrylic on canvas, 60×50 cm, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Untitled, acrylic and acrylic transfer on canvas, 60×50 cm, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Snake<\/a>
Snake Suit, acrylic and acrylic transfer on canvas, 150×120 cm, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation views at Gallery \u010cin \u010cin, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That you have eat a snake, and are grown young, gamesome, and\u00a0rampant. \u2013 John Fletcher:\u00a0The Elder Brother\u00a0(1625) \u201cTo eat snakes\u201d meant to recover one\u2019s youth and vigour, to be rejuvenated. The 17th\u00a0century expression symbolized recovery, referring to the snake\u2019s seasonal shedding of its old skin. Eat Snakes!Gallery Cin Cin, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2017Text by Vladimir Beskid, … Continue reading Eat Snakes!<\/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-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/michalczinege.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/1396"}],"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=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}