Atelier Hlavina
Brody Braňo

Artist

Brody Braňo

Born 1976

Long ago in the Paleolithic age :-), ... well ... shortly … a long time ago ... I was using Modurit to create items ... an awesome thing - that invention ... I was in the first year of primary school ... and we spent all our free time creating ... painting ... the school and the duties coming first, then experiments ... there was still something to create and to test … in winter, with the first snow, we built dinosaurs, elephants … not snowmen – these were left for the others. Then came the cyber period ... units and nulls ... games, graphics programs, mouse in hand ... programming, creating sitting on a chair ... on the monitor ... on disks ... it was a long and a very interesting period ... (especially the returns from virtual reality in the real one ...). The work in the graphic studio was varied and I really enjoyed it ... it lasted for about 10 years ... we made everything, including business cards, posters, billboards, TV shots, video clips, photography, shooting films, animations and visualizations in 3D animation programs, sitting in front of the computer for 10 hours a day ... 7 days a week ... all the time ... always. 

Well, as the saying goes ... life is a change, and I needed a change, too ... movement, in particular. The construction period started ... my visualizations were made into an opportunity to have them materialized and realized in practice ... logistics, construction works, building materials, interior designing, etc. ... and at this work ... especially at finishing interiors stressing the details, I came to realize how serious and challenging the uniqueness and atmosphere of the space was, and how important it is to have a piece of luck, to employ the right taste and emphasis in the final stage of work. These days, the possibilities are amazing, one can say - unlimited.. - which can be a complication at times – how not to bungle a thing, or the interior, how not to have it overloaded or over combined. Nice interiors do not really need much ... it always holds true that less is more ... one, two nice pieces and the overall atmosphere of the space gets "spicy" ... I was hunting for various original pieces ... all around. .. and I found and used many of them ... and at web I happened to find the statue of Lady Justice I needed for an interior of a client ... and when I got it, I was so touched, so delighted and interested that I started to look for materials and technical procedures ... the know- how or how to call it :-). 

So the internet + workshops ... studies ... and hurrah for the experiment ... and here I was again at creative, cool work, a "Brufen" inspiration, as I called it, as my eighth tooth started to ache, and so I had had it extracted, and the pain was over ... but the creation and experiments have continued ... production of details – figures for the interior, both gift and empirical, minimal, with maximum symbolic and poetic value ... hope you will like them ... :-). 

After about 10 years of graphics, about 10 years of construction works ... The next 3 years spent experimenting with materials and technologies; with iron – a heavy material - I used the grinders, welders, plasma; with wired products I used copper, tin and Paverpol glue; with stoneware, a temperature resistant glue ... and the result is "mutuality" of man and woman … finally, this topic has always been close to my heart, it captures us and is eternal !!! ... and if everything goes well, in a few years I will be experimenting and making small and big pieces for the interiors ... 

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Works in gallery