Pôdorys chrámu v súčasnom umení. Príklad Larvy Bohdana Hostiňáka
The Floor Plan of the Church in Contemporary Art. Example of the Painting Larva by Bohdan Hostiňák

Summary/Abstract: The presented text considers a floor plan of the medieval church, among other things, from the point of view of semiotics, as developed by C. S. Peirce. Based on his second trichotomy, the text identifies the floor plan as an icon and ascribes to it the properties of a pictogram. The text then deals with an example of using the floor plan of a medieval Christian church in contemporary art, specifically in the work of Bohdan Hostiňák (*1968). The author attempts to analyse Hostiňák‘s 1996 painting Larva, partly precisely from the perspective of Peirce‘s general semiotics. It brings closer the artist‘s work with the opposites of two dominant signs, the temple and the larva, which like elements of harmony and chaos, can evoke feelings of ambivalence in the viewer. He then considers these in terms of Heraclitus‘s philosophy, Nietzsche‘s consideration of the Apollonian and Dionysian, and anticlerical reading of the image, Christian doctrine, entomology, and etymology.

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