Roman Štětina
Lemonade
Artist
Roman Štětina
(1986, Kadaň), Czech
Original Title
Lemonade
Date2019
Medium4k video, stereo sound
Dimensions40min
Classificationsmotion pictures
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
Image Copyright
© Roman Štětina
DescriptionRoman Štětina is a Czech multimedia artist whose videos, installations, and audiovisual works primarily draw on sound, spoken word, and their manipulation. His work also incorporates radio and television broadcasts, which he is deeply familiar with as a musician and long-term employee of the Czech Radio. His artistic practice also includes work with archival materials, which he updates and translates into impressive technical projects. These works explore media culture as a social construct with firmly defined methods and preconceived expectations.
This video titled Lemonade (2019) was originally part of Štětina’s installation Centones which also incorporated light box images. It is inspired by the ancient Greek literary form cento and shows short snippets of other artists’ works converted into audiovisual imagery. The eye-catching video Lemonade captures sonic and visual fragments from the café at the New Stage of the National Theatre in Prague and spotlights questions regarding the relations between reality and illusion, past and present.
Roman Štětina (*1986, Kadaň) lives and works in Prague. In 2015, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague having also spent two years at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he was based in Judith Hopf’s and Douglas Gordon’s studios. He is a laureate of the Essl Art Award CEE (2011), the FilmPreis the Städelschule Rundgang (2014, 2015), and the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2014). He has attended several residencies, for instance in London (LUX) and Vienna (Q21 Artist-in-Residence). His work has been shown at events such as Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, and the Eastern European film festival goEAST in Wiesbaden. He has also exhibited at institutions such as the Prague City Gallery (2018-2019), the National Gallery Prague (2018), the Spike Island art center in Bristol (2016), the MNAC in Bucharest (2016), the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Delfina Foundation in London. He is currently an assistant in the Studio of Intermedia Work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
This video titled Lemonade (2019) was originally part of Štětina’s installation Centones which also incorporated light box images. It is inspired by the ancient Greek literary form cento and shows short snippets of other artists’ works converted into audiovisual imagery. The eye-catching video Lemonade captures sonic and visual fragments from the café at the New Stage of the National Theatre in Prague and spotlights questions regarding the relations between reality and illusion, past and present.
Roman Štětina (*1986, Kadaň) lives and works in Prague. In 2015, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague having also spent two years at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, where he was based in Judith Hopf’s and Douglas Gordon’s studios. He is a laureate of the Essl Art Award CEE (2011), the FilmPreis the Städelschule Rundgang (2014, 2015), and the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2014). He has attended several residencies, for instance in London (LUX) and Vienna (Q21 Artist-in-Residence). His work has been shown at events such as Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, and the Eastern European film festival goEAST in Wiesbaden. He has also exhibited at institutions such as the Prague City Gallery (2018-2019), the National Gallery Prague (2018), the Spike Island art center in Bristol (2016), the MNAC in Bucharest (2016), the Anthology Film Archives in New York, and the Delfina Foundation in London. He is currently an assistant in the Studio of Intermedia Work at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
