Radek Husak | Plural Body

Radek Husak

Radek Husak’s artistic practice is realised as a lengthy process – an expanded field of print, reverse technology and the relationship with the model. The artist returns from the digital image to the futuristic art made by a “human hand”, offering to his audience a good proportion of experience and knowledge. Thanks to his intensive research and experiments, he has developed an original technique of pigment transfer on sanded aluminium. As he breaks through layers of the metal, the artist uncovers the shine of the material’s inner sheets. In his figurative cycles, the influence of the timeless tradition of the nude is visible, along with the Renaissance aspirations to achieve excellence and the Baroque gesture, all of which enter into dialogue with elements of the pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s. Seduced by the ideal beauty of the classical world, Husak introduces to us the muse of the 21st century – a neoromantic young man. Like a pre-programmed puppet, his body is controlled only by the artist’s will. A flaw is purposely added – a double exposure, a glitch, or a shake, which creates “a stutter of digital perfection”. Semi-transparent edges of bodies become smudged and melted together to create somatic community and carnal strangeness at the same time. The artist constructs his abstract cycles by connecting elements of nature and fragmentation, as if taken from a digital dream. Husak’s art is sensitive, mindful, and seductive. It asks questions about the beauty of representation in the times in which we are “read by machines''. He treats his work as a way to introduce order into a chaotic world,  adding beauty where there is ugliness. His figures, which cross the borders of carnality, become godly machines offering a moment of delight. Husak wants to create something bigger than himself, art being sublimination for him. Getting into contact with the artist’s work lets us experience that the visible and the hidden permeate one another in the multidimensional reality. The empirically unrecognisable field of carnality is directly linked to the visible lower world. It opens up the door to reflection about carnality in the times of triumph of technological reproduction and synthetic media.