Articles
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Henrikke Nielsen
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interview
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01.03.2005
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CONSTRUCTED DECAY
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| Danish artist Simon Dybbroe Müller’s work is founded on a conceptual approach from which an extensive web of art historical, literary and architectural associations is spun. The notions of chance, accidents and decay are subverted in a wide range of materials and interventions, which reveal a fascination with constructed reality. Based in Frankfurt Simon Dybbroe Müller’s most recent exhibitions… |
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Anna Mituś
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poland
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01.03.2005
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NEUROPA, INC. EUROPE’S ARTIFICIAL BODY
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| It has been almost two years since Jacques Derrida and Juergen Habermas published an appeal that the so-called “core Europe” be an “avant-garde locomotive” for a united European continent. In this appeal, published in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the French La Liberation, and entitled “After the War: The Rebirth of Europe,” the authors attempted to define a new European… |
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Magdalena Ujma
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art project
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01.03.2005
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A GROUP PORTRAIT WITH ARTISTS IN THE FOREGROUND - POLISH KINDNESS AND TEDIOUSNESS
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| “Smart” means elegant, clever, intelligent… With some caution, it may be said that these are the words which the members of Supergroup Azorro want to relate to themselves. Looking upon their new project that includes this word, one may find that the artists want to present themselves as intelligent guys who know their way about in the maze of the world of art.
This image, however, contradicts… |
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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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William Hollister
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poland
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01.03.2005
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JERZY KOSAŁKA - SWALLOWED BY A SMALL DOG
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| After the gradual decay of Soviet rule in Poland in the 1990s, a loosely organized group of artists, gathered under the name Legendary Luxus, pressed forward with artistic perspectives that radically diverged from what had been presented to the regional public by cultural connoisseurs as an “avant guard” trend of Polish Conceptual Art. Replacing those movements’ pale Abstract Expressionist… |
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Alena Boika
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info
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01.03.2005
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ART MOSCOW: RESULTS
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| From May 24 to 29, the ninth ART MOSCOW International Art Fair took place in Moscow. During this period, over 35,000 people visited the fair. The total amount of sale exceeded $ 2,138,000. One work was destroyed.
This year, the number of participants considerably increased – there were over fifty of them; the exposition occupied four stories of the Central House of Artists on Krymski Val. For… |
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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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Olga Vašinkevič
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info
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01.03.2005
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WARSZAWA – MOSCOW / MOSCOW – WARSAW. 1900 -2000: PARALLEL PATHS OF THE PAST CENTURY
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| The contorted Russian-Polish relations do not fill the finest pages of history: wars, the Smutnoye Vremya (the Time of Troubles, 1598-1613), the partition of Poland, the painful “Jewish question.” The accusations have lately been mutual about the number of prisoners of war who died in camps or were killed in mass executions. Yet all the close cultural, social and economic relations that have… |
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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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