Woods, 120 X 210 X 80 CM, 2018 The installation is tied to the family table – the place where a lot of events with many participants took place (old ones leave, new ones come). Each participant views the situation from a different own perspective – frame of perspective, using which he can describe the Read more about Four frames of reference[…]
Painting on canvas and mirror, 40 x 40 x 10 cm, 2019 * Title taken from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Slovak title translation: Klopať by malo zmysel iba vtedy, keby dvere boli medzi nami (Alica v krajine zázrakov, preklad: Juraj Vojtek, Viera Vojtková, 2010)
Exhibition POSTMedium, Galerie FaVU, Brno, 2018 Authors: Diana Cencer Garafová, Lenka Lindák Lukačovičová Curator: Marianna Brinzová Duration: 23. 5. – 20. 6. 2018 In this “No title” exhibition I aimed tho create the model of the exhibition space inside the real gallery (FaVU Gallery in Brno). First I have created the paper model of the gallery in Read more about No title[…]
Black Box (Námestie SNP 12), video 2:36 min Portraits with my brother (Panská 19), video: 4:09 min On the excursion (Podjavorinskej 4), video: 4:24 min Three situations (Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18), video: 1:36 min
SOLO EXHIBITION, Nitra Gallery – Youth Gallery, Nitra, 2018 Author: Diana Cencer Garafová Curator: Diana Klepoch Majdáková Duration: 26. 4. – 2. 9. 2018 How can we explore our whole world? Can we rely on our senses as their capabilities of evaluating and storing information are limited? How can we explore our whole world? Can we Read more about Vertical Limit[…]
Subtitle: (Námestie 1. mája 3) Styrodur, cupboard, acryl on canvas, pigment 88 x 102 x 28 cm, 77 x 65 x 28 cm, 2016-18
Subtitle: (Podjavorinskej 4) Pencil on paper, 80 x 100 x 30 CM, 2014-18
Solo Exhibition, Medium Gallery, Bratislava, 2018 Author: Diana Cencer Garafová Curator: Zora Rusinová Technical support: Peter Beňo Duration: 22. 2. – 11. 3. 2018 Project Breaking (b)it – Spontaneous symmetry breaking by Diana Cencer Garafová has in a bit enigmatic name to research and reflections about knowledge in her theoretical thesis. Her topic was inspired Read more about Breaking (b)it[…]
Dissertation thesis (written part), 2018 Author: Mgr.art. Diana Cencer Garafová Guarantor: prof. Daniel Fischer, akad. mal. Consultant: prof. RNDr. Vladimír Bužek, DrSc. My dissertation deals with the reality-model relationship and the viewer’s position within it. I am referring to the fact that knowledge (about the world) is based on models. The simplification (of the world) via models helps Read more about Breaking (b)it – Viewer’s position in reality-model relationship[…]
Subtitle: (Baštova 1) Wood, textile, cupboard, acrylic, lamp and shadow, 40 x 50 x 40 cm, 2014-18 In this small model my main tool the shadow. The shadow is the lack of light caused by the object. It is a 2D projection of 3D objects that is projected on 3D space. So it draws not Read more about Only the shadow left[…]
Subtitle: (Panská 19) Object, wood, styrodur, oil on foil, 80 x 190 x 42 cm, 2017-18 Until we adding ourselves in interference Positive is determined by its negative, similar as a group of elements can be defined by properties, which they do not have. They have many common characteristics, but they exclude each other rather than Read more about Portraits with my brother[…]
Subtitle: (Lazaretská 19) Cupboard, paper and LED diodes, video projection, 161 x 128 x 65 cm, 2016-18 Exhibition 1:10 (Jedna ku desať) Exhibition opening on 30. 1. 2018 in a model gallery placed in non-gallery space – lecture room of RCQI (Research Center for Quantum Information), Slovak Academy of Science (SAV). During the exhibition opening, people Read more about 1:10 (Jedna ku desať)[…]
Subtitle: (Námestie SNP 12) object, wood, paper, found materials and moving light, 90 x 72 x 42 cm, 2017 As the light moves, two different shadow projections appear on the walls. *In the health and safety record of the RCQI SAV registered as the preparation of the 11th year of the prestigious science festival in Slovakia Read more about Black Box[…]
Subtitle: (Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18) Acrylic on canvas, wooden furniture miniature, 270 x 170 x 10 cm, 2017 Photos from latest exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition, M. A. Bazovský Gallery, Trenčín, 2017 Author: Diana Cencer Garafová Curator: Lucia Miklošková Duration: 3. 8. – 31. 8. 2017 Výstava s názvom Ako sa mám dostať dnu? prezentuje tri práce mladej autorky Diany Cencer Garafovej. Diana aktuálne pôsobí ako doktorandka na Vysokej škole výtvarných umení v Bratislave, v ateliéri maľby pod vedením profesora Daniela Fischera. Read more about How am I to get in?[…]
Acrylic on canvas, 154 x 270 cm, 2017 In this work I return to the topic I am repeating and developing for several years. As I wrote in my dissertation thesis: “All potential images of the same scene contain the same information, differently encoded. There are a multitude of ways to encode the same view, Read more about I don’t deny things with my <i>hands</i>*[…]
object, digital print on plywood, projection on tracing paper, hidden camera, 143 x 56 x 35 cm, 2017 * Title taken from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Slovak title translation: A máš sa ty vôbec dostať dnu? To je totiž prvá otázka (Alica v krajine zázrakov, preklad: Juraj Vojtek, Viera Vojtková, 2010) Read more about <i>Are</i> you to get in at all? That’s the first question, you know*[…]
Subtitle: (Nedbalova 3) Object, Plywood, polystyren, found materials, mirror, monitor, cameras, 100 x 157 x 38 cm, 2014 Miniature of Diploma work – What is the Nature of Reality (2012) * Title taken from Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Slovak title translation: Ako sa mám dostať dnu? A máš sa ty vôbec dostať dnu? (Alica v Read more about Are you to get in at all?* Vol.2[…]
Sculpture, Aluminum, 4 m, 2016 Coauthors: Diana Cencer Garafová, Gabriela Halás, Juraj Hubinský, Ivana Kvaššayová, Ľubomíra Sekerášová, Katarína Sido, Gréta-Mária Srnová, Nikola Šušovicová Project took place at Hala Merina 2016 Sympozium Photo: Gabriela Halás
Project was realized as a part of BTS -> SLC Collaborative Street Art Exhibition. During the collaboration with Nancy Rivera (Utah, USA) we created two sundials – in Bratislava and in Salt Lake City, Utah. During this exhibition viewer were able to stand inside the both sundials laid out on the ground that allowed to become the Read more about East to West[…]
Public art, 2015 The work was realized within Invisible Štiavnica Artists in Resident. In the past, Banská Štiavnica was an important center of Hungary, mainly due to its mineral wealth. Nowadays, people are visiting the city because its high-quality artistic events and activities. In 1856 at the Seat of the Mining Chamber, Joseph Bachmann set up Read more about Prime Meridian of Banská Štiavnica[…]
Chalk on pavements, 2013
Installation, acrylic on canvas, mirror, ring, stands, 440 x 340 x 890 cm, 2012 Diploma work – What is the Nature of Reality, part 1 The most important discovery of modern science expressed R. Feynman by sentence: “The world is composed of atoms.” The second most significant science discovery is that physical laws are based on Read more about You couldn’t deny that, even if you tried with both hands*[…]
Diploma work – What is the Nature of Reality, Part 2 Interactive installation, 2012 The seemingly unpredictable, chaotic behavior of a complex system is caused by initial conditions. It turns out that the whole universe is in a state of chaos. Chaos can be described as apparently random behavior with purely deterministic causes – misunderstanding of rules Read more about And yesterday things went on just as usual*[…]
3 pcs of digital print, 40 x 40 cm, 2011 Sometimes people changed, although it remained the same look.
This project was realized as a part of Ultimate River workshop lead by Marco Casagrande at Aalto university.
Interactive installation, 2011 Project was realized within Media Intervention in the City at Aalto University Helsinki and later selected for Media Lab Helsinki Demo Day 2011. In this optical illusion the visitors of the shopping mall walked through other people. This illusion was view-able on live internet streaming and screening in the library of the same mall. Read more about Do not overlook[…]
video, 1,34 min, 2011 Project was realized within Moving messages workshop organized by Juliane Stiegele at Aalto University Helsinki. The static typography was installed in the nature on Tervasaari, Helsinki, Finland, and captured with its shadow all day from the morning till the evening. Nevertheless, for every passer-by was evident that the shadow was moving, Read more about Enjoy the moment[…]
site-specific installation with live-video, 2010 „Thus it is a great merit to have unrolled the phenomena of symmetries in their full breadth to a monumental work; whether in quanta, atoms, and crystals, or in corporeal forms, senses, and brains, or in the forms of all the artefacts that have originated from human activity. Only then Read more about Looking for the Symmetry[…]
Original book, drawings on paper, 2010 The travel diary about a journey for the loved person.
wall painting, Forum Experimenteller Architektur / Museum Quartier, Vienna, 2010 I worked with optical illusion, the portrait is discernible from one spot, since when the viewer moves to the sides, the face starts to be destroyed.
Video, 2:00 min, 2010 Automation of paintings and painting process as a mockery of the abstract expression. Wind-powered machine without the author’s intervention, only the forces of nature. Music by Yann Tiersen.
Acrylic on paper/canvas, 2010 Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify Read more about Cumulations[…]
Acrylic on canvas, 2009 The series of large-scale paintings responds on actual society and its perverted values. This unpopulated scenery with inverted spatial plans originates from photo of real places, which I have been visited. I choose these places in pursuance of absurd, perverse stories published in the news. Of course these places are only Read more about Perversions (Prevrátenosti)[…]
Curatorial exhibition Installation in the nature, nylon and duck tape, 2009 Authors: Diana Garafová and Juraj Meszároš 156,718 cm is statistic European eye-height average. Our exhibition with sure ecological message repose just on placing an “exhibited” objects – garbage founded in the forest – on the eye-height. Lift of the objects on this height keep Read more about 156,718 cm[…]
Original book, 2009 Cover of the book is filled with ink. When reader´s hands touch the blank pages, the story of the book is started to write.
Original book, digital print and drawing on paper, metal cover, 2008 The book has two content layers: the first are the objective facts, the second is my own assessment. The book looks like file, where individual cards are equal from the first sight. Every card has its own layout (from grid to fonts). The book Read more about Identity[…]
Digital print and acrylic on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, 2008 The basis for the painting was the photograph of my parents – half the mother and half my father’s face. These two halves have become a field to search for the features of your own person(ality).
24 Akvarelles on paper, 2007 This project is based on notation of one day – spring solstice – in one hour interval and rotating in the azimuth 15° at the same time (wayfaring of the sun on the sky). In consequence of my rotation and the moving of the sun, my shadow was always behind my Read more about Akvarelle Sun-dial[…]
Akvarelles, 2007