Artículos
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Ludmila Vachtová
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Teoría
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01.01.2001
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MAD REALITY
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| Hypermental, Curated by Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zürich, 17 November 2000 – 21 January 2001, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 16 February – 5 May 2001“Hypermental” swooshed over the sharp-angled facade of the Kunsthaus in Zürich. Curator Bice Curiger, internationally noted for her excellent exhibitions, came up with this ambiguous neologism for the end of the millenium and it provided shelter for everything… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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new faces
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01.01.2001
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BARBORA KLÍMOVÁ
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| Barbora Klímová (b. 1977) studies at the intermedia department at the Visual Arts Faculty of VUT in Brno under professor Peter Rónai. Barbora Klímová stands out from her peers, who mainly give in to pop culture influences, for her simple, almost minimalist concept, which uses the simplest kinds of exercises in painting technique. If one paints using light, shapes, and patterns, the traditional… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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new faces
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01.01.2001
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JIŘÍ SKÁLA
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| Jiří Skála (b. 1976) was a student from 1998 to 2000 at the visual communications studio at the Fine Arts Academy in Prague under professor Jiří David. In 2000 he transferred to Painting Studio II under professor Vladimír Skrepl. Skála was originally a painter, but these days he is occupied with conceptual installations that reference formal elements in art history. His work represents a… |
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Michaela Freeman-Vlková
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media
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01.01.2001
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OPERA TOTALE 6
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| The program for Opera Totale, a one-day workshop in Mestre near Venice, Italy, consisted of a somewhat asynchronous sequence of presentations: a choreographed variation of some music by Bela Bartok, an interactive installation dealing with the world of children, an automatic Internet DJ, some Italian hackers, a solid project by the MIT Media Lab, and appearances by a Canadian dancer and a sleepy… |
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Tomáš Tahoda
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exhibition
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01.01.2001
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LEMME DO IT!
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| "Out of the jumble of recent theme exhibitions, it’s the shows curated by those lacking an established art historical background that have stood out. To make their exposition menus more varied and lively, institutions have invited artists, and sometimes writers, philosophers and representatives of other professions, to offer a new look, consciously liberated from traditional forms of presentation… |
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Karel Císař
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Perfil
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01.01.2001
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UNVEILED BEAUTY
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| "There is no doubt today that art historian Jan Avgikos was correct two years ago when she claimed that one of the images that would always remind us of the 1990s was of a formation of twenty girls in Tom Ford’s Gucci bikinis, or without them, standing still at the center of the New York Guggenheim’s rotunda. On 23 April 1998 about 500 invited guests were lucky enough to see Show, the work of the… |
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Homeless & Hungry
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news
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01.01.2001
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THE BLOOD RITUAL (B&B)
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| EntranceThe Big Paranoia Gallery is packed with guests clutching plastic cups of wine. A side table is loaded with cold dishes of lobster, broth jelly, a whipped mousse of smoked salmon (garnished with tiny shrimp and seasoned with green tomatoes in the Mexican “coulis” style), rows of fantastic little sandwiches, an apple pie, various salads and creams, pudding with cognac plus bowls of salted… |
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Jana Ševčíková a Jiří Ševčík
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Crítica
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01.01.2001
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NEW CONSERVATISM
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| "The logic of the reconstruction of the old system is a reconstruction based on a liberal democratic model that claims to be the only possible reality and that feels it must be depoliticized, managed by experts so that the process of achieving the ideal objective — a globalized society — will run as naturally and normally as possible and not be disturbed by excessive immaturity or any attempts at… |
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