Articles
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Natalia Filonenko
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Ukraine
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01.03.2005
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KOSCHEI THE DEATHLESS, MERMAID, AND OTHER…
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| Painting is probably one of the oldest forms of cultural communication. This is why the different stages of its fate - failure or end, return or success - are all the time the focus of attention of the artistic world. Today, interpretation of painting evolution is more complicated than that of relatively new genres such as photo or video as it has always been a rule to refer the action on canvas… |
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Jekaterina Stukalova
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Ukraine
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01.03.2005
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IN EXPECTATION OF RELOADING: UKRAINIAN MEDIA ART
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| Paraphrasing Voltaire, one could say that if contemporary art did not exist in Ukraine, it would be necessary to invent it. Fortunately, contemporary art does exist in Ukraine. But the mere fact of its existence seems increasingly paradoxical: contemporary art depends directly on the degree of development of art infrastructure and cultural policy of the state. For almost twenty years, this… |
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Tony Ozuna
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waste
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01.03.2005
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ART & GARBAGE OR RECYCLED ESTHETICS IN POST-WAR CENTRAL EUROPE (1917-2005)
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| At the end of the disastrously bloody massacre known as World War I, the disillusioned ex-solider Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) became an artist, first joining the Dadaists but ultimately he staked a claim in art that was not solely a part of that group. The German Dadaists were attracted to and concentrated in Berlin, but Schwitters was a good distance from there, firmly rooted in his “provincial”… |
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Leng Lin
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china
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01.03.2005
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GERMANY IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART
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| The Reunification of Germany eliminated the most significant ideological antagonism from contemporary history. Socialism and capitalism no longer stand pitted against each other; in the new reality the former Eastern bloc countries are in fact interconnected with the West. Retrospectively, socialism became an abstract ideal, and at the same time capitalism is taking its toll. The historical… |
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Lenka Klodová
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new faces
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01.03.2005
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VIKTOR ŠPAČEK, I LIKE THINGS, THOSE QUIET COMRADES
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| While driving on the smooth highway leading from Dresden to Berlin, with its rhythmical multitudes of street lamps, serpentine crash barriers and traffic lights flashing by, I recalled Viktor Špaček more vividly.
Born rather than created, technical elements are rooted in norms and laws, transcending the limitations of human production.
They originate neither through chan-ce nor human caprice; we… |
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Jana Kalinová
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review
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01.03.2005
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SLIDERS
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| Barbora Klímová, Pražák Palace, Atrium, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Moravské Square, Brno. June 17 – August 28, 2005
According to artist Barbora Klímová’s instructions, switches were installed on the sodium street lamps on Moravské náměstí, the main square of the Czech Republic’s second city, Brno. They functioned on the basis that makes a light switch on when one approaches a front door or by… |
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Travis Jeppesen
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review
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01.03.2005
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READ THIS TEXT
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| Text Ground
Curated by Cosmi Costinas
Display Gallery, 04.28 -05.17
The first thing you see upon entering the gallery are the following words written on the back wall in neon orange spray paint by Mircea Cantor:
COLLECTIVE MEMORY ITEMS +
LAYERED REALITY
SPECULATIVE UNDERSTANDING
DISCIPLINARY INFUSION
SYSTEMATIC ASSOCIATIONS
CONFIRMED MODELS = ?
A huge block of blue paint covers the wall to… |
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Ivana Moncoľová
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review
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01.03.2005
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GOOD GIRLS GO TO HEAVEN, BAD GIRLS CAN GO EVERYWHERE
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| Aneta (19X5) and Lucia (19X7): video queens, cultural provocateurs, femmes... Aneta Mona Chisa (assistant to Miloš Bielický at the Prague School of Fine Arts) and Lucia Tkáčová (assistant to Ilona Németh at the Bratislava Academy of Fine Arts and Design, and co-founder of Bratislava’s HIT gallery) presented an exhibition during the Multiplace festival entitled Most of all We’d Love to Have Sex… |
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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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