ABOUT

Rudo Prekop is in the history of slovak photography known for his stage photography, to which he has been dedicated since the beginning of his career (80´s). He is a representant of so-called Slovak new wave representants, which has   fundamentally displaced a strong tradition of czechoslovak documentary photography and in the spirit of postmodernism indulged in stage fictional worlds full of myths, games and cryptic messages.

The series Reálovki (The real things) has the author been dedicated for more then 20 years. This double-line of his work has paradoxically its opposites but also similarities. Stage photography and photography realized straight and immediatelly, are with the way of its realization standing on opposite riversides. On the other hand, author´s inclination to a long concentrated work on stage has a simmilar mental outcomes as his „slow and quiet“ view over the land. Another bridge between the two banks is his everlasting interest in objects found in the reality of the day, with which he works either actively or pasively, so that he does not interfere into the enviroment of their existence. The cycle The Real Things is a set of images, which originate, according to the words of author „ in the teritory somewhere between Prague and Kosice“, since 1989 until now. The photographs are freely set up according to their visual relations, or according to the type of the country, which is offten peripheral, non-attractive, lonely. For Prekop´s Real Things is typical so-called „inconspicuous situation“ built on banality, trifle, ordinariness. The things that most of us will not see, or simply will not realize is the centre of author´s interest.