Articles
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Václav Magid a Alena Boika
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interview
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01.01.2007
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INTERVIEW WITH VICTOR MISIANO
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| Viktor Misiano is an art historian, an art critic, and the curator of numerous international art exhibitions including the Hamburg Project, Interpol, Conjugations, Moscow, and the Third Rome. He was the chief curator of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and 2003, and of the same exhibition in Central Asia in 2005. He is also the author of many publications on contemporary art,… |
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Andrej Kovaljev
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commentary
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01.01.2007
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TREKHPRUDNY: TIME TO ASK NAIVE QUESTIONS
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| On September 5, 1991, the Moscow public attended an opening of a new gallery. However, upon arriving at the attic of a house on Trekhprudny Lane, they saw neither paintings nor installations; they found two homeless people instead. Those typical representatives of the homeless class were busy with their usual affairs: drinking cheap wine, swearing, sucking on stinking cigarette-butts, paying no… |
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Václav Magid
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01.01.2007
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AN ATTEMPT TO COMPARE THE PHENOMENA OF "TUSOVKA" IN THE RUSSIAN ART OF THE NINETIES WITH THE CONTEMPORARY CZECH COMMUNITY
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| The production and exhibition of the contemporary art of young people in the Czech Republic has many attributes that call attention to the artwork’s communal character. These features can be read in conjunction with the “tusovka” phenomenon associated with the Russian scene of the 1990s. Tusovka is Russian gangland slang for “assemblage,” or “gathering.” By about 1999, the concept of tusovka… |
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Lenka Vítková
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new faces
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01.01.2007
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ALICE NIKITINOVÁ
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| If the latest paintings of Alice Nikitinová (1979) were presented with the accompaniment of Coldcut’s music, those anonymous guys clad in brightly colored overalls might gradually start to move. Nikitinová’s previous works have included thematic traffic signs, surface improvements and colored areas projected into the view of people living in a city. By reproducing surfaces while disregarding… |
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Tomáš Vaněk
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01.01.2007
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TRANSCULTURE: ACT 1 A PROJECT OF JESPER ALVAER AND ISABELA GROSSEOVA
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| The art exhibition in Brno called the Transculture Project: Act 1 of Jesper Alvaer and Isabela Grosse, represents part the Polish concept of “transculturation,” and is part of a larger series of exhibitions with the same name, Transculture, organized by the Bunkier Sztuki art gallery in Krakow, Poland. Each of the six exhibitions making up Transculture is composed of different artists… |
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Spunk Seipel
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review
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01.01.2007
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OF MEESE AND THE GERMANS
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| Jonathan Meese is currently Germany’s most controversial artist. His exhibition Mama Johnny, held in the Deichtorhallen gallery in Hamburg, was the exhibition event of the year. An artist of just 36 years of age, he was given the chance to fill more than a hundred square meters of space. He sold piles of junk to the interested public, labelling them as part of a new, intellectual world system:… |
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Jiří Kovanda
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new faces
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01.01.2007
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SYLVIE BRODI
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| After they came home from their favorite restaurant where they have gone every Friday friends with whom they have met up with more-or-less regularly since high school, they didn’t say a word. The children were already asleep. They took a shower. He sat in a comfortable armchair in the hall. Usually, when he comes home late from a pub, he turns on the TV whatever is on and has a shot. Not today.… |
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Lenka Vítková
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profile
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01.01.2007
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NOW ART IS HERE: JIŘÍ VALOCH
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| I’m writing about Jiří Valoch because his textual installations contain a powerful poetry. His recent exhibition in the National Gallery and his work in the Caesar Gallery in Olomouc, a center of the Moravian art scene that influences him so strongly, are the best examples to consider him from. Along with Dalibor Chatrný and J.H. Kocman, he is counted among the conceptual artists in Brno; his… |
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Lenka Dolanová
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video art
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01.01.2007
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WE ARE ALL STAR STUFF
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| From the beginnings of Chicago Video Art
"It was this way in general, but mainly in Chicago, where there were many common goals, great ideas; lots of associated equipment and resources." (Dan Sandin)
"Video Art is not Mona Lisa but it’s fun in its own way." (Phil Morton)
The so-called “Chicago School of Video Art” is considered to have been one of the most interesting groups engaging in… |
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Petra Vargová
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interview
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01.01.2007
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FROG STEAK
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| Tissue art is the art of manipulating growing tissue into statues or the form of other objects. The Australian group SymbioticA (www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au) started these experiments using animal tissue. They let the tissue grow into the forms of half-alive dolls or the ear of the famous artist Stelarc, or they created bird wings from the tissue of pigs. In their project Disembodied Cuisine, Catts… |
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