Articles
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Ivan Mečl
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editorial
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01.01.2008
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EDITORIAL
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| We work like old people, yet we behave like children more than ever before. We surround ourselves with mobile miracles, and therefore we have no idea what we are dealing with. We try to live in safety, and yet we do not know what it means to be safe. Many of us have lost time, but acquired “things.” We love “things” and their names sound nice to us. We love them, but they do not love us. We are… |
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Spunk Seipel
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protest
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01.01.2008
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WHEN THE TALIBAN DESTROYED THE BUDDHA-STATUES…
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| When the Taliban announced the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan at the end of the year 2000 in Afghanistan, a wave of protest went around the world. In all Western countries, the cultural scene was bewildered and tried to stop the destruction with helpless appeals to the Taliban. One of the worrying aspects of this was how muted the protests of the cultural scene had been about the… |
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Drew Martin
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closer look
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01.01.2008
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WRITING AND DIRECTING SCULPTURE
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| When we consider the amount of text dedicated to discussing, understanding and explaining the visual arts, it is hard to ignore our reliance on words to aid, enhance, compensate and even substitute our visual experiences. Since ancient Greece, text preempted images, which were, more often than not, allegorical. The images graphically summarized the text in the same manner that today’s press… |
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Ivan Mečl
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interview
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01.01.2008
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WICKED / INTERVIEW WITH JIM HOLLANDS
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| “A person must shake someone’s hand three times while gazing intently into their eyes. That’s the key to memorizing their name with certainty. It is in this way that I’ve remembered the names of 5,000 people who have been to the Horse Hospital,” Jim Hollands told me. Hollands is an experimental filmmaker, musician and curator. In his childhood, he suffered through tough social situations and… |
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Edith Jeřábková
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closer look
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01.01.2008
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ARTISTIC INSTITUTIONS BEGGING FOR A FACELIFT
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| I’ve always been used to approaching art galleries in the same way as exhibit halls in museums; as spaces designated for art. But recently galleries have been turning into living beings that have their own characters, negotiations and habits. They’ve always had them, but now it’s even more obvious. Now, galleries also speak. For example, the gallery at the Old Town Hall is holding a Mark Ther… |
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Zuzana Štefková
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birthing pains
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01.01.2008
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WHO’S AFRAID OF MOTHERHOOD?
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| Expanding the definition of “mother” is also a space for reducing pressure and for potential liberation.1
Carol Stabile
The year was 2003, and in the deep forests of Lapák in the Kladno area, a woman in the later phase of pregnancy stopped along the path. As part of the “Artists in the Woods” exhibit, passers-by could catch a glimpse of her round belly, which she exposed especially for them in… |
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Ivan Mečl
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01.01.2008
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ART WORLD
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| Artworld
Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, November 25, 2007 to January 10, 2008
Ad Reinhardt, Alan Phelan, Balthasar Burkhard, Ben Gavin, Charles Gute, Christian Jankowski, IRWIN, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Matthieu Laurette, Pablo Helguera, Rainer Ganahl, REP Group, SOSka Group, et al.
“This has been our best and most successful auction ever!” This statement has become a generic catchphrase for… |
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Ivan Mečl
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catalogue
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01.01.2008
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THE MYTH OF THE ART WORLD
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| Since the time that art became a field, a system, and enterprise,
I keep asking myself, is there a way out of it all?
Although the exhibition a Berlin’s Feinkost gallery sported the seemingly scholarly title, "Art World," it was neither an educational exhibit of great masters nor any basis for their inspiration. Today, the sound of the expression itself, "art world," brings to mind the sound of… |
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Aaron Moulton
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catalogue
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01.01.2008
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INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT SHAPAZIAN
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| You were the director of Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles for a number of years and yourself a collector of art, surrealist photography if I am not mistaken. In your work as a dealer, how much of your own interests with aesthetics and developments in contemporary art overlapped with what you were selling?
I was the director of Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles for ten years; I left two years ago… |
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Pablo Helguera
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01.01.2008
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ART WORLD
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| The AW is considered by many as the most sophisticated game ever invented. In order to learn how to play it, it will be useful for the novice to imagine the AW as if it was a game of chess.
We would like to publish the following pieces:
- Scheme from p.50
- and Ideal Social Choreography for an Artist at an Opening (p.52)
Following this premise, we shall find that the art world roughly contains… |
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