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Mariana Serranová
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review
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01.01.2006
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HOMEADVERTISING
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| Tomáš Svoboda, Exhibiton at the Doubner Gallery, September 1 – 15, 2005
The interest in advertising, media and the stereotype of institutions is omnipresent in contemporary art, but it is a rare moment that we might have any consistent interaction with the given surroundings when defending such artistic positions. Tomáš Svoboda considers making use of real patterns for logistic use important.… |
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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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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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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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01.01.2005
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INSIDERS INC.
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| Insiders, Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno
Dec. 14, 2004 – Jan. 30, 2005;
Futura Gallery, Prague, Feb. 17 – May 1, 2005
Immediate Context has disappeared - Immediate Contexts have disappeared. The time has come to dig up the bodies and embalm them, belatedly.
The Insiders exhibition presents exquisite works of distinguished artists. Maybe that is for no purpose.
The preparation of the Insiders was… |
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Zuzana Štefková
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review
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01.01.2005
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BIRTH AND RESURGENCE OF CZECH MODERNISM
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| Martina Pachmanová’s Unknown Areas of Czech Modern Art: Examined from the Gender Perspective, published in Czech by Argo press, is unique among Czech art history publications. Czech Modernism, the subject of the book, is definitely not among the unexplored chapters of Czech art. Nevertheless, the book proves that previous scholarship has left blank spaces on the imaginary map of this region.
A… |
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Simona Juračková
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review
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01.01.2005
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VOYEURISM FAST AND EASY
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| Videocards,
Dům pánů z Kunštátu,
Brno,
Nov 11 – Dec 5, 2004
As they gaze into the objective lens of the camera, their faces show no sign of amazement or indignation. Their heads turn towards each other and they continue walking without missing a step. So we have enough time to look at the girls. Any visitor who descended into the basement of the Dům pánů z Kunštátu in Brno between November 11… |
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Lenka Klodová
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review
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01.01.2005
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ATTACK ON THE PATISSERIE
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| Jan Novotný,
Cosmic Bodies Uninterested in a Burning House
Serpentina cafe, Prague-Letná,
December 2004
At least as far back as the 1960s, fine art has been inseparably bound by space. When he hurled molten lead into a corner, Richard Serra rendered space as an integral aspect of an art work. The peak of that era has past when monumental installations would work with entire galleries and other… |
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