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Tony Ozuna
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graffity
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01.04.2002
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ART OF GRAFFITI — PRAGUE STYLE (INTERVIEW WITH JANKALÁB)
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| Artist Claes Oldenburg said it nicely: “You’re standing there in the station, everything is gray and gloomy, and all of a sudden one of those graffiti trains slides in and brightens up the place like a big bouquet from Latin America.” Oldenburg was talking about New York City, of course.
In our case, the city is Prague: in a charmed, forgotten corner of Prague’s New Town, behind Charles Square,… |
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Ivan Mečl
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theme
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01.04.2002
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RAFANI ON GUARD! OLD ORDER AND A NEW REALITY
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| “We are building onto the everyday experience of wide social strata; we analyze it and look for points that go beyond the sphere of the mundane. With a conscious art form we attempt to reflect their interests, dreams, fears, and ambitions. What we express is in harmony with their ideas; we speak the language of bitter truth.” Excerpt from the Rafani ConstitutionIf the thoughtful reader goes… |
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Ivan Mečl
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artist
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01.04.2002
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LEGENDA OF MAGDA
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| “Perceiving oneself as superior and exceptional sometimes extends into distorted perception, into sickness. And the sick pilgrim wanders downward towards the treasure.”A little poetic defense for the introductionAfter visiting artists — for which I usually take along a partner — it often happens that on the way back he or she cannot help blurting out: “I have nothing to do with it, but this is… |
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Jan Suk
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theme
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01.04.2002
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LIVE ART - ART OF LIVING?
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| “Usually when I say the word live art to people who don’t know what that means, you get some kind of smartass comment: ‘So is the other art dead then?’ And when I look at most kinds of mainstream performing artists in Britain, my answer is: Yes, it is.”Lois KeidanWhat is Live Art? Live Art is the tendency to fight against all definitions of traditional forms, and, like all contemporary artistic… |
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Keiko Sei
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theme
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01.04.2002
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UNIFORM FUTURE (PART 1)
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| C3 Foundation and Mücsarnok put on an ambitious exhibition this year entitled VISION — Image and Perception for the opening of Hungary’s Budapest Autumn art festival. Its intention was to explore how we understand our inner vision, and how we perceive our outer vision by examining art, science and technology as seen throughout the history of art. A 16th-century painting of Narcissus opens the… |
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Keiko Sei
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theme
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01.04.2002
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UNIFORM FUTURE (PART 2)
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| Urban Sax and Ya Basta! use similar principles. Tute Bianche, the white overall movement that Ya Basta! is part of, writes: “The white overalls were born as an ironic reference to the ghosts of urban conflict, then they became a tool, a symbol and an open identity made available to the movement. Anybody could wear white overalls insofar as they respected a certain style. One of the typical sound… |
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Keiko Sei
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q & a
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01.04.2002
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BIG HOPE (INTERVIEW WITH MIKLOS ERHARDT AND DOMINIC HISLOP)
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| Could you please speak a little about the meaning of your project in Torino, why you wanted to do it, to what ends, and why in an art gallery? M.E., D.H.: We first went to Corso Brescia 14, Torino, around six months ago while we were working on a previous project. We were immediately impressed by this colorful space, its rich variety of objects, paintings, posters and stencils that covered its… |
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Václav Hájek
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artist
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01.04.2002
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WHAT IS VLADIMÍR SKREPL DOING THESE DAYS
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| From November to December of last year an exhibition of new work by Vladimír Skrepl took place in Brno gallery Na Bidýlku.
What’s Skrepl working on these days? On making a specific space homey… In reference to his work, I feel ashamed to write using Times size 12. It would probably be better to go for size 30 in a widening, in certain places condensed and layered, scrawl. Writing like a spider… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl, Vladan Šír
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q & a
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01.04.2002
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INTERVIEW WITH VLADIMÍR SKREPL
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| Be an Artist I. Do you enjoy your art or do you suffer over it? It’s connected, isn’t it? If there wasn’t pain, there’d be no ecstasy. So a kind of SM? Sure, basically that’s it.How did you come to be an artist? (laughs) That is, if I am actually there… That’s also a question. If I am there.GroupsYou used to played the electric guitar, didn’t you? I started around 12. But that doesn’t mean that I… |
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