The man and the mask in different forms. Photographer Vojtěch Vlk has been exploring a phenomenon that has been intertwined throughout human history for a long time. His latest show at the Rock Café club in Prague focuses on masks in music. On large black and white and color images, we find Michael Kocáb, Jana Uriel Kratochvílova or, for example, Václav Noid Bárta from the metal band Dymytra.
“I started photographing masks many years ago in Moravia, where I’m from. I remember well all the children’s carnivals I experienced in a mask, perhaps the one that went to me with my classmates dressed as the band Kiss,” said the photographer Vojtěch Vlk , who, in addition to freelance work, is currently very involved in portrait and physical photography.
In addition to the phenomenon of masks, he also deals with spirituality through his paintings. rituals across world religions.
“The latest show by Vojtěch Vlk in Rock Café in Prague shows how there are masks in contemporary music. or cover their faces completely during their performances,” said curator Zara Wildmoons and says that the theme of masks is a lifelong, ongoing, intense and evolving puzzle for the Wolf.
“He studies it with the curiosity of an artist’s child. This time the research led him to another subject close to him, which is music,” reports Wildmoons. According to her, the photographer sees the mask as “the visual context of the musicians’ artistic performance” or as a ceremonial object, which, among other things, gives “courage without being afraid to express themselves freely, to be crazy and crazy. perform in front of an audience.”
In the ensemble chosen for the exhibition space in Rock Café Prague, we find, for example, Jana Uriel Kratochvílova, the industrial-country band Kittchen, the metal band Dymytry, the Kabaret Dr. Caligari, but also Peruvian DJ Cesar Chunk, Mexican Austin TV or the British duo I Monster and many others.
Vojtěch Vlk: Hidden musicians
Exhibition of pictures at the club Rock Café Prague, curated by Zara Wildmoons. The exhibition runs from 8 May to 7 June. Free entry. You can find more information about the photographer and his other photos on the website www.vojtechvlk.comalready Facebook or forward Instagram.
