Articles
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Alena Boika
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review
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01.01.2007
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ABOUT WHITE AND BLACK: ABOUT WHITE
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| The man I love once said, "I‘m walking now through a foggy park, it‘s dark and warm." I answered, "A year ago, there was a woman with a black dog there. Is she still there?" He answered, "No, but, there are a lot of camels now." I said, "They must be white." He answered, "Yes, in the darkness they seem white," and asked me, "Do you know how to count these midnight camels?" I answered, "As a rule,… |
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Alena Boika
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commentary
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01.01.2007
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ABOUT BLACKNESSTHE DESTRUCTION OF THE GUELMAN GALLERY: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
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| On October 21, 2006 a dozen thugs ransacked an exhibition of Alexander Jikia and the offices of the Guelman Gallery. Dressed in leather clothes and wearing no masks, they acted methodically and silently. They put the employees against the wall and took away their phones. The destruction took all of ten minutes. Gallery owner Marat Guelman called it a scare tactic. They did not steal anything, but… |
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Lenka Vítková
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specialist
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01.01.2007
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A SPECIALIST
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| Boris Spec, who lives in Riga, Latvia, writes about cars for Latvian and Russian magazines. Spec is a nickname for “specialist.” Boris says that his work was serious at first, the typical fare of boys: elaborate drawings of cars, helicopters and boats, all as illusive ballpoint illustrations. One day he drew a goat – seafarer, and uploaded it to the internet. The work was received with tremendous… |
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Lith Bahlmann
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video
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01.01.2007
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INTOXICATED BY MEDIA DÉJÀ-VU / NOTES ON OLIVER PIETSCHE"S IMAGE STRATEGY
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| Goff & Rosenthal gallery, Berlin, November 18 - December 30, 2006
Society permanently renegotiates the definition of drugs and our relationship towards them. In his forty-five minute found-footage film The Conquest of Happiness, produced in 2005, Oliver Pietsch, a Berlin-based video artist, demonstrates which drugs society can accommodate, which it cannot, and how the story of the drugs can be… |
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Alice Nikitinová
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news
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01.01.2007
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PINCHUK’S ART-OLEUM
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| The invitation for the celebration opening could be won on a radio program – if you had the right answer to the questions like, “What’s the name of the painting technique in which you put oil on canvas? – Oil painting! Oh, great, congratulations to our listener. You have just won a ticket to the opening of the Pinchuk Art Center!!!”…
In Kiev a Center of Contemporary Art was opened – Pinchuk… |
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Alena Boika
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paradise
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01.01.2007
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PARADISE LOST AND FOUND
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| or For the Rights of Black-And-White Cows!
When my colleagues at the editorial office learned where I was going they all laughed at the place‘s name, Shargorod. Nobody had ever heard of it and my own knowledge was merely from a press release and poor internet sources. I was speaking enthusiastically about a small remote Ukrainian town with a rich history not far from the famous city of… |
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Pavel Vančát
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review
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01.01.2007
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A SOMNAMBULIST PAPARAZZO
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| A poem with this ending was once published by Markéta Othová in the forerunner to Umělec, a more warped and chaotic publication that she had helped to found and create. From this point of view, Markéta Othová is, in her mid- to -late thirties, a matador. At the same time, we can find an indication of how the graceful elegance of her photos is grounded in cunningly naive roots, how it is necessary… |
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Marko Stamenkovic
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theory
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01.01.2007
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MORE THAN AUTONOMI LESS THAN INDEPENDENCE
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| Every attempt to give a possible interpretation of contemporary art practices presupposes a certain context out of which these practices emerge. In the context of globalization today, it is exactly the transnational aspect of cultural production, determined by sound theoretical and political coordinates, that opens up a new discursive matrix for the articulation of meaning and values in the… |
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Leonor Nuridsany
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review
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01.01.2007
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SIMPLEMENT COMPLIQUÉ
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| The FRACs are “simply complicated” as Thomas Bernard would say. But let us try to be simple at the outset: The initials, F.R.A.C., stand for Fonds Régionaux d‘Art Contemporain—the French regional funds for contemporary art. In other words, each region is charged with establishing, with the assistance of the French state and the French regions, a collection of contemporary art, and is responsible… |
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Roberto Cavallini
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afghanistan
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01.01.2007
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ON COMMING CLOSE TO THE SKIN OF THE REAL:A CONVERSATION WITH LINDA ABDUL
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| Lida Abdul was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. At the beginning of the Eighties she was forced to leave Kabul and her country and she moved to Germany and India as a refugee before going to the U.S.. Going back to Kabul, after a long period, she pitted herself against the city and the people disfigured by more than twenty years of invasions, war and dictatorship. Abdul‘s work is located at the… |
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