Stano Filko

MULTIMODAL GOOGLIFICATION OF COSMOLOGY-ORIENTED DIAGRAMMATIC EXPERIMENTATIONS OF STANO FILKO

curated by Boris Ondreička

…It is impossible to do the exhibition OF Stano Filko (1937-2015) anymore— without him. His approach of positioning himself to given in-situ situations was always total / the absolute ‘ego’(-centricity). Filko every time literally colonized the whole environment of his appearance in massive improvisational deployment. But still, we can do the exhibition ABOUT Stano Filko, trying to pronounce his speculations (in accessible ways) without manipulating his own thoughts (speaking ABOUT his ‘words’, but not speaking our ‘words’ THROUGH him) ourselves. Filko has left us a sufficient sum of coordinates to do so. This exhibition is concentrated in attentive research and consequent operation with these instructions…

(excerpt from the essay by Boris Ondreička on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, 2019)