The Widest Moment of the Visitors’ Journey

SIN by Rony Plesl Mono no aware (Display) Mono no aware (Sakura) 2025 Cast glass, blown glass, copper, digital display, digital animation 240 x 139 x 82 cmRony Plesl Uranium Rose 2025 Cast uranium glass 200 x 30 x 30 cmJakub Matuška aka Masker Let’s Take Them All the Way to the Top, 2025, 180 x 140 cm Atlas 40+, 2024, 80 x 60 cm London Street, 2025, 140 x 180 cm Individuals (Insights into What’s It Like to Be Part of a B Colony), 2024, 190 x 140 cm Streetview, 2024, 60 x 45 cm Boy on the Sidewalk (Only Down on the Ground Will You Know What‘s in You), 2024, 160 x 100 cm Technique: acrylic on canvasLunchmeat Studio Rusalka. Opera in 3 Acts, Op. 114 Act 1: O, Moon High Up in the Deep Deep Sky Music by Antonín Dvořák Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil Gabriela Beňačková Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Václav Neumann ℗1982 SUPRAPHON a.s.The first ceiling cut holds a crystal branch with a floral ending called Mono no aware symbolizing beauty as well as transience. On its ends, it carries digital displays with animated hyper-realistic and almost futuristic tropical blossoms alternating with the glass morphology in the form of frozen sakuras.

The second cut is dominated by the visually striking composition of larger-than-life flowers, wild roses with long stems and sharp thorns. They capture the eternal cycle of the birth of beauty, its gradual decay and destruction. Rony Plesl notices the iconography of flowers and works with associations. The glowing roses from uranium glass are seductive and sinister at the same time.

In the niche space, the viewer encounters figures and narrative motifs that gradually appear on the way up. Several canvases from the most recent creative period of Jakub Matuška aka Masker seem to show everyday scenes from human life, however, the artist uses them as clues for associations with a universal transcendental meaning. They are imbued with a radiant energy rising from behind the surface as a metaphysical dimension beyond our usual experience that we try to glimpse.

The visual landscape is filled with the most famous aria from the best-known opera by Antonín Dvořák. The magical tale of great unfulfilled love of the water fairy Rusalka for a man is a magnificent work from the beginning of the past century with a masterful interpretation of the play of waves and reflection of moonlight on the lake and with a singular charm of a fairytale dream. Certain parts of the libretto, with the moon peeking into people’s homes, became one of the reasons for Lunchmeat Studio to select this world-known musical work for the collaborative concord in the culmination of the exhibition. Their audiovisual installation based on the principle of online communication, too, peers into the private sphere through the Internet. At the same time, it paraphrases films by Oldřich Lipský and Jiří Brdečka, especially Dinner for Adele, which was created with the contribution of Jan Švankmajer.

The graphic design of the niche is rendered by the high-tech Wall-ink digital print technology.