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Born 1974, graduated from applied arts high school in Kamenický Šenov, the Czech Republic. In 1999, he graduated from the Jiří Šalamoun illustration and graphic studio of the Applied Arts College in Prague.
The cycle of posters Poproworld (Popular Propaganda of the World) was intended to address viewers on the streets using pop-culture forms and to deal with various issues, from business to art and love. Horváth drew his inspiration from the poetics of Russian revolutionary posters. He makes the intentionally inartistic posters himself by spraying only two or three filthy colors. The resulting images are antipodes of shiny billboards—they are not advertisements but rather messages. Their language is backwards and inappropriate, says Horváth. Their whisper is hard to discover in the influx of contemporary colors. Poproworld is not political but ideological. It is not contemporary, yet timeless in its symbolism.
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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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Nick Land was a British philosopher but is no longer, though he is not dead. The almost neurotic fervor with which he scratched at the scars of reality has seduced more than a few promising academics onto the path of art that offends in its originality. The texts that he has left behind are reliably revolting and boring, and impel us to castrate their categorization as “mere” literature.
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"In Cameroon, rumours abound of zombie-labourers toiling on invisible plantations in an obscure night-time economy."
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