Articles
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Stevan Vuković
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profile
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01.03.2006
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ON UROŠ DJURIĆ’S LANGUAGE OF FIGURAL REPRESENTATION: NATURALISTIC MISTAKE
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| “The author and the work are only the starting points of an analysis whose horizon is a language: there cannot be a science of Dante, Shakespeare, or Racine but only a science of discourses.” Roland Barthes
One of the major obstacles in grasping the specific discourse that Uroš Djurić uses, in order to intervene into the contemporary art scene, is his strong presence in the media as a public… |
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Edith Jeřábková a Lenka Vítková
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essay
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01.03.2006
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PLAN B
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| The need to outline the state of the Czech visual scene from the point of gallery operations emerged from our conversation with visitors of exhibition openings. The goal is to catch the ongoing phase of the emergence of something new, and the causes of the current situation.
We are not interested in judging the activities of the galleries. We introduce them here via a questionnaire. Additional… |
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Alena Boika
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action
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01.03.2006
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BELARUSIAN FLASH MOB
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| A Flash mob is a mass art phenomenon, which in 2003 swept in a meaningless wave over the whole world. A small and “happy” country named Belarus – which has drawn international attention due to last March’s attempted revolution and “last dictator” Lukashenko – also took part in this phenomenon. Here, an entirely new kind of flash mob – a political one – has been born.
In Place of a Preface
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Ivan Mečl věnuje Vítu Soukupovi
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01.03.2006
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POST-DISARTER - A CONFESSION OF A VETERAN
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| After I saw a part of a discussion among the representatives of the youngest generation in contemporary art I felt like someone who had survived a nuclear disaster. That must have happened some time around 2001. The post-revolution 90s have disappeared somewhere. No one ever thinks about them. No one needs them. At least today’s culture activists, artists and their companions.
The young… |
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Jan Suk
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interview
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01.03.2006
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CYRIL LEPETIT - ABOUT FRREDOM, THE TITANIC AND RESPECTFUL IDENTITY
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| Cyril Lepetit – le petit – petty, minute, tiny, itsy-bitsy, minor, flimsy, piffling
You all know the feeling when after a day's march or a lengthy bike ride you stop to rest, squat to explore the ground, when suddenly a gust of wind passes through your sweaty private parts. Or in the evening, lying in a tub filled to the top you contemplate over gently rippling water surface reflecting the… |
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Feni Zguro
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info
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01.03.2006
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TIRANA PRISHTINA PROJECT 2005
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| Travelling to Prishtina for participation in an exhibition, by plane, takes just 25 minutes. In this way, one escapes the 2000 hooks of Kukës ‘highway’ and the, not so nice to experience, human landscape. Getting back to our example, the artist finds the inspiration and presents a project inbetween Albania and Kosovo. This was the idea of Florian Agalliu, coordinator and organiser of art… |
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Chris Gill
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street and art
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01.03.2006
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UNAUTHORISED BANKSY, STREET ART AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
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| The following story is part of urban art folklore: a young graffiti artist called Banksy, reportedly Robin Banks from Bristol in South West England, is jeered upon telling his sister that he will one day be an exhibited artist in the Lourve. Fast-forward to today, and Banksy has been exhibited in the Lourve, the Tate Britain, and four of the most prestigious museums in New York City.
This is… |
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Marisol Rodríguez
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street
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01.03.2006
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ACAMONCHI
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| To live in the media is to live in the ephemeral, if you are not in when they call, they just call someone else. If you call them, they never call back(1).
In 1994, Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated, shot in the head in the middle of a cheering crowd, after an enthusiastic speech for his presidential campaign in the northern city of Tijuana. All of a sudden, this city at the very edge of… |
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Tony Ozuna
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text and art
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01.03.2006
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WORD SLINGERS UNITED
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| There is always a feeling of disappointment, a let down as if I’ve been cheated, when art works are untitled. This is because, at least for me, a reference point has been eliminated.
Just for example, the recent retrospective of the photographer Miroslav Tichý at Brno’s House of Art, where almost all of the works were untitled. Understandably in his case, how can an 80-year old man possibly go… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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text and art
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01.03.2006
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INFORMATIONAL READY-MADES AND THEIR ETHICS
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| In the last few years Czech contemporary art has shown a tendency towards conceptualism. One of the signs of this tendency is the growing number of artists who work with texts. Their approaches are various, of course: the text message can be part of a painting, a drawing, a photograph, a print, a 3D object, a film or a work placed on the Internet. It is used by artists interested in non-pictorial… |
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