{"id":16784,"date":"2020-11-13T16:11:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=16784"},"modified":"2021-03-06T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T07:59:56","slug":"michal-macku-glass-sacred-geometries-20-november-31-december-2020-press-release","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/michal-macku-glass-sacred-geometries-20-november-31-december-2020-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Michal Macku &#8211; Glass Sacred Geometries | 20 November &#8211; 31 December 2020 &#8211; Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='artists-title'  class='avia-section av-av_section-142ff43b7600746a6e970fde5cf91c57 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll  container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16784'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a6de236e6c183bbbd700292deacd2b52 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"font-family: 'eb garamond'; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Michal Macku \u2013 Glass Sacred Geometries | 20 November \u2013 31 December 2020 \u2013 Works\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/michal-macku-glass-sacred-geometries-20-november-31-december-2020-works\/\">works\u00a0<\/a>|<a title=\"Michal Macku \u2013 Glass Sacred Geometries | 20 November \u2013 31 December 2020 \u2013 Press Release\" href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/portfolio-item\/michal-macku-glass-sacred-geometries-20-november-31-december-2020-press-release\/\">\u00a0press release<\/a>\u00a0| <a href=\"https:\/\/weiling-gallery.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Michal-Macku-Glass-Sacred-Geometries.pdf\">E-BOOKLET<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_full-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div '   ><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '  style='font-size:14px; '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'open sans thin'; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 25px; letter-spacing: 1px;\">Glass Sacred Geometries\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wei-Ling Contemporary presents Michal Macku\u2019s\u00a0\u2018<em>Glass Sacred Geometries<\/em>\u2019,\u00a0a series of glass objects that intersects both science and spirituality. While his previous series reflected on the questions surrounding human existence, this body of work observes the idea of God as creator through the theory of Sacred Geometry, so as to understand himself better as an artist, whose role is also to create. Although Sacred Geometry can be broken down into a language of mathematics, the artist decided to look at it beyond the rational, to try to understand its relationship to the human consciousness. Many forms found in nature can be understood through geometry, such as the Nautilus shell that takes the shape of a logarithmic spiral, or honeybees that construct cells in a hexagonal form, to store their honey. For many years, artists and architects have also implemented geometry in the design inspiration for various religious structures. Sacred Geometry can therefore refer to the language of our universe; naturally occurring patterns that unite different realities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The artist\u2019s main inspiration behind this series was his direct relationship with nature, which he has nurtured through his travels to South America. His first visit was in 2012, to the land of the Shipibo people, an indigenous tribe who inhabit the area along the Ucayali River of the Amazon rainforest in Peru. In the following years, he returned to South America to learn the practice of traditional Amazonian healing at the Takiwasi, an NGO located in the city of Tarapoto, in the Peruvian High-Amazon region. The teachings that he received in Takiwasi led him to the ancestral knowledge of physical, mental and spiritual healing, using medicinal and sacred plants of the region. During one of his visits, he also stayed with a Peruvian shaman, or what the South Americans call a \u201ccurandero\u201d. A curandero is a traditional native healer whose life is dedicated to inventing and sharing remedies for mental, emotional, physical and spiritual illness. His encounter with this curandero was a life-changing one, as it has influenced his perception on the principle of energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the past 4 years, Michal Macku has also been traveling Colombia, starting from the forests in the Southern region, to the mountainous area in the Northern part of the country. All the time he spent there has made him realise the power of nature in bringing positivity and consciousness to human beings. The same way as how nature conveys the energy of its creator, he believes that art too, being a form of creation, has the power to mediate harmony from its creator to its preceptor. The artworks in this series feature different types of shells and two geometric cubes inspired by the Archimedean Solids; shapes constructed based on the Sacred Geometry principles. A series that expresses the happiness of life; and spreads positive vibrations to its surroundings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>About Michal Macku <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The renowned Czech artist Michal Macku (B. 1963) started by creating works using his own photographic technique named \u2018Gellage\u2019. The technique \u2018Gellage\u2019 consists of the transfer of exposed and fixed photographic emulsion onto paper. This transparent and plastic material makes it possible to reshape and reform the original images, changing their relationships and endowing them with new meanings during the transfer. His discovery of this unique process has cemented his name in the history of contemporary photography.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later in his career, he mastered other historical photography techniques, such as platinum printing and carbon printing. In 2016, he started combining the technique of carbon printing with glass art, which is considered as an old artistic tradition in Czech Republic. Ever since, he has been focusing on making contemporary glass objects, which overtime grew to become technically and artistically more ambitious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michal Macku graduated from the Technological Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute in Brno and the Institute of Art Photography, Prague. After working for a number of years in research, he taught for a at the Pedagogical Faculty of Palacky University in Olomouc for a certain period of time. Michal has been working as a full-time artist since 1992.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Glass Sacred Geometries\u2019 <\/em>by Michal Macku is featured at Wei-Ling Contemporary from 20<sup>th<\/sup> November \u2013 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Wei-Ling\u00a0Contemporary\u00a0is\u00a0located\u00a0at\u00a0RT01, Sixth\u00a0Floor,\u00a0The\u00a0Gardens\u00a0Mall,\u00a059200,\u00a0Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.\u00a0Admission\u00a0hours\u00a0are\u00a0Tuesday &#8211; Sunday 10am-5pm.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition is open by appointment only. For appointments and further assistance, please contact\u00a0+60322828323 or\u00a0email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:weilinggallery.amanda@gmail.com\">weilinggallery.amanda@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16784'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-2a9015ff38129c418a3f2eafba3e9512 av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_one_fourth  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fourth-61f1f3fb8a14755dafdb04b8bcedc67a av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr  flex_column_div '   ><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df{\nheight:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-a07f7596b1fca85f6595a75d593069df hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"works\u00a0|\u00a0press release\u00a0| E-BOOKLET Glass Sacred Geometries\u00a0 Wei-Ling Contemporary presents Michal Macku\u2019s\u00a0\u2018Glass Sacred Geometries\u2019,\u00a0a series of glass objects that intersects both science and spirituality. 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