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Martin Kámen ( Czech Republic,1982)

Magister of Art Martin Kámen (*1982) graduated The Academy of Fine Art, Prague (New Media Art) 2008. He's started with photography in 1999. His first solo exhibition was in 2003 in No D Gallery - Roxy, Prague. 2007- 2011 he was a director and script writer of QUEER Programme Show for Czech Television. In 2008, he co-established The Chemistry Gallery in Prague. 2008 - 2012 as an art director in The ICON Gallery, Prague. He was one of the founders and president of HIV/AIDS charity project Art for Life in Czech Republic (2007 - 2015). Between 2011-2015 he was a photographer of National Theatre in Prague.

His work was presented at nearly fifty exhibitions internationally - Amsterdam, Barcelona, Los Angeles, London, Prague, Warsaw. He became the curator of twenty exhibitions of contemporary acclaimed artists.

Art professionals about Martin Kámen artworks:

"Martin Kamen's artworks let us see the past through the eyes of the future. His fine art photograps quote classical painting in humorous and sensual way. In real life and in his art he is always a perfect gentleman."
Marc Divo - visual artist (Switzerland)



"Part of the queer visual art in Europe leeds us to an important source of images featuring men that express forms of suffering and loss. The world of antiquity, both in myths, literature and history, and the artworks that have survived from that time. Theme of a destroyed male friendship occurs in all kind of variations from the Renaissance onwards and is still found to this day, in the context of social unrest caused by terrorism in the staged potographs of Czech photographer Martin Kámen ( about the Apollo and Hyacinth, 2010)"
Anton Anthonissen and Evert van Straaren -
Queer Encyclopedia in Europa 1969 - 2019 (Nederlands)
"In his photographic work, he places strong emphasis on the narrative content of photography, its aesthetic and technical perfection. It reflects his distinctive artistic and life attitude. He focuses on the search for a Baroque-aesthetic form, through which he also expresses criticism of today's society. He draws from the visual bank of artistic expressions of the past and present, uses existing dictionaries, but newly programs, constructs and fills them with current meanings."
PhDr. Rea Michalová,
Ph. D. art historian and curator (Czech Republic)
"Works selected from the author's wide portfolio demonstrate that Baroque feelings and Baroque aesthetics have not disappeared, even more than five centuries after. The work of Martin Kamen, who in the postmodern spirit works with quotations from Baroque masters of painting, such as Frans Snyders, J.D. Heem, P. Claesz, or with mythological themes elaborated by neoclassical authors led by French academics Jean Broc, Jean Delville or W. A. Bouger. Tension, death, conflict, all this emanates from photographs that do not allow the audiance to leave them without being disturbed. He does not let the viewer enjoy the empty beauty, but he urges with the given themes and with a formally brilliantly mastered work. In it, he uses not only his knowledge of art history, photographic craft but also extraordinary artistic imagination and creativity. Martin Kámen proves with his cycle of Baroque-tuned photographs (which are only a small section of the breadth of his work) that he is a talented author from the category of staged photography artists, made famous by Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall or Gregory Crewdson, and rightfully belongs to the the contemporary art photography scene."
Kateřina Tučková - novelist and curator (Czech Republic)
"If we start from the notion of beauty, we will find that in Martin Kamen's photography with the help of ironic verism we can meet with a provocatively traditionalistically staged allegory of wisdom."
PhDr. Jan Kříž art historian (Czech Republic)
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