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Jiří Ptáček
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01.03.2004
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WHAT’S SRI CHINMOY DOING HERE?
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| Not long ago, when I was thinking about writing an essay about the artwork of Sri Chinmoy, Jesper Alvaer, a Norwegian artist living in Prague, stopped by. Alvaer took an interest in this, and we began to discuss Chinmoy’s drawings and paintings. He told me an interesting story.Once Alvaer attended a Chinmoy meeting. As he watched Chinmoy sitting on a platform, he caught sight of a woman nearby… |
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Peter Weibel
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theory
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01.03.2004
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MASOCHISM AS A POST-PHALLIC MANDATE
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| By Peter Weibel
1 The cruel woman
The masochistic construct of the femme fatale and the vamp between nature and machine
Duino elegy 1
And if I cried, who'd listen to me in those angelic orders?
Even if one of them suddenly held me to his heart,
I'd vanish in his overwhelming presence.
Because beauty's nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear,
and we adore it because of the serene… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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neue gesichter
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01.03.2004
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MATÌJ SMETANA
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| Matìj Smetana was born in Prague in 1980, spent his fourth year in the painting studio of Petr Kvíèala at the Faculty of visual arts in Brno. Each of his realizations are based on one peculiar, cunning conception. He sets himself free topics but only when they have clear limitations. He’s already wittily expressed himself with Occam’s razor project. He drew pictures of knives on small cuttings of… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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neue gesichter
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01.03.2004
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PETRA PÌTILETÁ
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| Petra Pìtiletá was born in Prague in 1978, studied at the VŠUP in Prague, 1999-2000 (studio of Pavel Nešleha), later she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studio of Jiøí David. After she left the Academy, she switched to the studio of Veronika Bromová. She worked briefly with her colleagues Jana Doubková, Sylvie Málová and Magdalena Peševová. Pìtiletá and Peševová were curators… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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geschichte
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01.03.2004
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A USER’S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM
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| Thompson, Nato – Sholette, Gregory (ed.): The Interventionists. User’s Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life. Cambridge 2004.
When you buy a book and find out that you have accidentally purchased an exhibition catalogue, you might be disappointed. You missed the first experience with art. When you later find out that the reading of the catalogue doesn’t have to follow the seeing of… |
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Andrew Hunt
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geschichte
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01.03.2004
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SASNAL
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| Wilhelm Sasnal
Camden Arts Centre, London
25 June to 22 August 2004
With sixteen paintings shown in a precarious sequence, first impressions of Wilhelm Sasnal’s exhibition at Camden Arts Centre were of its filmic and fragmented sense of narrative. In some respects this came as no surprise; the paintings, contained within a large rectangular room snapped from one scene to another, and presented… |
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Lenka Vítková
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info
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01.03.2004
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SUMMER IN THE CITY, RANDOM COLLECTION
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| Martin Horák, Summer in the City
KW, Random Collection
Šternberk City Gallery
August 8 – September 3, 2004
Martin Horák, from Ostrava, lives in Olomouc, where he was a curator of exhibitions in Divadlo hudby (the local music theatre) and in streetcars (The Bezhlavý jezdec (headless horsemen) group, along with Ivan Vosecký, Pavel Brázda), now he works in a secondhand bookshop and is a conceptual… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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info
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01.03.2004
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PAS TO THE CIVILIAN ZONE
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| Production of Contemporary Activities, (Produkce aktivit současnosti -- PAS) dates back to 2000. Its goal is to enter into the “civil/citizen zone.” In June, 2004, PAS invited six artists to prepare instructions to make art. Anatolij Osmolovskij (Russia), Liam Gillick (Great Britain), Monika Sosnowská (Poland), Oliver Musovik (Macedonia), Roman Ondák (Slovakia) and Swetlana Hegerová (Germany)… |
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