Mikulas Podproczký Pocit z Reality (Múzeum Vojtecha Löfflera Kosice, 2002)
The existing work of Mikuláš Podprocký touches several levels, which he articulates from the formal side by means of using various artistic media. This occurrence is natural, it emerges from his current position of being a student, who gradually creates his graphic declaration and simultaneously looks for its relevant positions. The presented summary of the artist's works, despite the short time of his activity, arose during his studies at the Department of Visual Arts and Intermedia in the Studio of Free Creativity led by professor Juraj Bartusz and it indicates already the possible ways of his visual contemplation. Mikuláš Podprocký investigates mainly the level of communication abilities of his works, which are created on the basis of using new media, directed towards the viewer. However, the artist attempts to push this fact further, on the one hand they are the means of expressing his individual vision of the surrounding reality in the sense of positive use of their visual language, but simultaneously he tries to utilise their negative manipulation abilities of communication as well. An example of this thinking is his interactive projection Landscape, where the onlooker influences the simulation of a computer created environment in terms of the programme by their presence and movement. The light projects - In the Same Space and / Try to Understand are an interesting form of Mikuláš Podprocký's visual language. Via a specific photographic technology, he uses it as a media to materialize a shape (however it does not concern the classic form of sculptural modelling in the level of adding or taking away of material) or he uses it as a drawing gesture. These works simultaneously carry within them another latent but equal part-time flow is encoded in them - in the exposition time itself, hence in the moment of the film clip, further in its following multiplication, the result of which is the produced phased motion. Contemplation of time, shape - in some cases he projects it almost to corporealityvisible or just hidden - indicated, and at the same time about a certain space, which is automatically tied to it. This all is present in most of his demonstrated works. Regarding the content side of Mikuláš Podprocký's work, a distinctive contribution is also his global thinking, which is expressed in the works of timeless subject matter, whether it concerns the modern she-wolf Rhea, whose symbolism contains ecological contexts, or the computer animation Dogma, which refers to senseless patterns of behaviour and thinkingin ourlife. Mira Putišová September 2002