Erik Sikora

THE STICK

I’m in the woods and I want to be staffage.

The staffage is an insignificant figure animating the image of the landscape. I want to be irrelevant, but I want to liven up a bit and I want to be a painting.

And I want to be a stick. The stick is a dash between me and the forest. I poke the forest with it and don’t get dirty. The forest is not just a pile of trees, the trees are not just a pile of sticks, but I can still embrace the stick and take it home.

And I want to measure proportions. To measure and draw them quasi importantly with a stick. Explaining the drawings to the computer, the computer explaining them to the laser, the laser explaining it to the mass, and you all are cordially invited to see it as images within the exhibition. In Šopa gallery.

Erik Sikora

Erik Sikora (* 1986) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 2005 to 2011, where he gradually went through the New Media studios of I. Michael Bielický and Markus Huemer, Paintings II. Vladimír Skrepl, guest pedagogue Magdalena Jetelová, Conceptual Creation of Miloš Šejn and Tomáš Vaněk, guest pedagogue Florian Reither and Gelitin Group. After returning to Košice, in the period from 2016 to 2020, he devoted himself to doctoral studies at the Faculty of Arts in the ASK 3D studio with Radovan Čerevka. In 2019, he won the Oskar Čepan Award. He teaches at the Secondary Film School and the Faculty of Arts and does gigs as Džumelec.

The exhibitions of this gallery and the realization of theauthor’s works is supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.

Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of the project.

The project is also financially supported by City Košice.