Articles
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Lenka Lindaurová
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q & a
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01.01.2001
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MARGINAL DIFFERENCES
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| "Michal Koleček established himself in the 1990s as a unique curator for the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, CZ. As a result of his efforts, many artists from the former Eastern Bloc are not only finding a place in Ústí, but also in Prague.In your work as a curator you mostly focus, as few here do, on post-communist art. How did you first become interested in something so specific? First,… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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review
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01.01.2001
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MINIMALISM AND SPACE
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| Jan Stolín, 5.2m per second. Curated by Monika Mitášová, Pecka Gallery, Prague, 7 February – 16 March 2001Though he’s not well known in Prague, Jan Stolín was right there in the trenches for last year’s Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Following a tight race, the award was spirited away by his more popular peer, David Černý, who, incidentally, was his classmate at Kurt Gebauer’s sculpture studio in the… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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review
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01.01.2001
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STRATIL TWICE OVER
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| "Václav Stratil, Drawings 1955-2000, Museum umění Olomouc, 30 November 2000 – 11 February 2001. Large “Black” Drawings, Gallery of Fine Arts, Dům Umění–Ostrava, 28 November 2000 – 27 January 2001Once again Prague has been deemed too small for important exhibitions of Czech art and one has to set off to the regions to see them. But a little trip never hurt anyone, and this is especially true of a… |
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Vít Havránek
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review
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01.01.2001
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DIY ON THE RISE
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| "Ján Mančuška, I Don’t Like Going to the Bathroom Anywhere Else But Here, Dům Umění–České Budějovice, 18 January – 18 February 2001Dům Umění in České Budějovice this year put together Ján Mančuška’s biggest solo show to date, entitled I Don’t Like Going to the Bathroom Anywhere Else But Here. The gallery has over time developed an excellent exhibition program alternating international and Czech… |
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Keiko Sei
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theory
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01.01.2001
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FOREVER LEADING CULTURE
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| "The American novelist Walter Abish has described the work of the younger writer Jürg Laederach (who wrote the novel Wie Deutsch Ist Das on the German psyche) as capturing “the spirit of the new Europe”: “A Europe to come, when borders dissolve [...] Characters vanish, reappear. The short segments are sharply defined. There is something relentless about the build up... Everything is transitory.… |
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Željko Blače
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biennal
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01.01.2001
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SALON 26
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| The 26th Youth Salon, a key Croatian exhibition that presents a young generation of artists, opened at the Zagreb exhibition hall in January 2001. Since 1967 the Salon has given students not yet ready for individual presentations an opportunity to organize their first shows. It has also traditionally been a place to come and observe contemporary changes in art.After several attempts at organizing… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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profile
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01.01.2001
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THE REALISTIC OBSESSIONS OF A RECLUSE
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| "Most Czechs are familiar with the ironic drawings that depict on the cover of Respekt the less-than-encouraging phenomena of our post-totalitarian society. This political and cultural weekly was originally the samizdat publication Informační Servis whose contributors included the current politician and Senator Jiří Ruml. Pavel Reisenauer, an artist of brilliant style, is the man behind the tens… |
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Jeffrey Bartel
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comics
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01.01.2001
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FEARFUL SYMMETRY
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| "“...and there was this toy, this snowstorm ball ... It was like a little glass bubble of somewhere else.”I’m in the basement of a friend’s house, we’re watching a movie. High school era: I’m fifteen and everything that goes along with it. And one of his older brother’s friends comes down, stands on the steps, watches the movie for a bit.It’s about a world where animated characters are real, and… |
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