Přehled příspěvků autora Jiří Ptáček
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Jiří Ptáček
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new face
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01.02.2006
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I LOVE 69 POPGEJÚ
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| If the Red Hot Chilli Peppers shocked their fans, at the time, by wearing socks on their private parts, then i love 69 popgejů hypnotizes them with leopard print hand-made underwear (with a large stuffed phallus hanging out) while writhing their bodies and wearing tennis shoes on their head. Three of the four members of this performance group met in Valašské Meziříčí, Moravia. Currently they live… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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new faces
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01.01.2006
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FILIP NERAD
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| At the beginning of the century a small circle of artists from Brno’s FaVU (Faculty of Fine Arts), who investigate the language of animated films, converged around filmmaker Filip Cenek. Typical for this creator were short-term alliances between a few artists, rearranging of characters and various language of animation narrativity, a reminiscence to a generation’s experience with fairytale… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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new faces
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01.01.2006
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DOMINIK LANG
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| Dominik Lang (1980) lives in Prague, studies at the studio of Jiří Příhoda at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVU) situated in Prague. In general, Lang is interested in “solutions.” He watches how things are being done, what is considered as given (“we accept it and don’t think about it anymore”), and suggests changes and different solutions. Sometimes he strives for a visible change, sometimes for a… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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review
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01.01.2006
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A CONFERENCE
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| Johanna Billing – Alan Currall, Display + Tranzit, Prague, October 11 to 30, 2005
In October 2005, Czech Umělec editor Jiří Ptáček received an invitation to a conference. The subject of the conference wasn’t on the invitation, but as it was organized by his good friend, and since in this business that’s what counts, Ptáček decided to attend. At the right time, he arrived at the right place, in… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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poland
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01.03.2005
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THE OLDEST FIRE IN POLAND
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| When I first noticed the plastic digital watch made by Janek Simon, a Polish artist, I assumed he had some particular reason for not simply buying one. But Simon, who was born in 1977, grew up in real socialism. Perhaps he couldn’t get over a childhood trauma.
Digital watches used to be cult objects for Poles, Czechoslovaks and the Soviets. The watches were deified as the ultimate unattainable… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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editorial
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01.03.2005
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EDITORIAL
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| Umělec (the magazine) and an Artist (Umělec) on the Border
The previous issue of Umělec magazine came out in three language versions: Czech, English and, for the first time, also in German. The issue you are holding in your hands now is being published in four versions altogether. By request of the Prague Theater Institute, which started the season of Czech theater in countries of Latin America,… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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info
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01.03.2005
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CODES OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
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| ZVON: The 5th Biennial of Young Art
Dům U Kamenného Zvonu, (House at the Stone Bell) , Prague 4. 14. – 6. 5. 2005
The Prague Biennial of Young Art at the House of the Stone Bell (Zvon) has its own unique place in the Czech Republic, an established niche with a specific radius of action. That means: it has taken place in the prestigious exhibition hall in the middle of the Czech capital five… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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info
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01.03.2005
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GO ONLY HALFWAY? AT LEAST THEN YOU ARE HALFWAY THERE.
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| To any passer-by one Friday morning last May, the smoke billowing over the roof of Prague’s House at the Stone Bell could have seemed rather frightening. But this gothic monument was not aflame; the smoke was an experiment by Jana Kalinová to create an artificial cloud there, while worried firemen stood by.
White gas wafted through a transparent pipe upwards reaching a set of balloons,… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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review
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01.03.2005
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THIS WILL ALWAYS BE BEAUTIFUL
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| Vladimír Skrepl, A. M. 180
Prague, April 1 -15, 2005
“The independent creative and promotion collective,” A.M. 180 devotes itself to music production and also organizes art exhibitions, applying different rules for its different activities. It invites musicians from all over the world who know what DIY means and who are ready to accept lower fees than in the West. But in its gallery, in… |
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