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Spyout
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01.03.2003
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CONDITION REPORT 0231103
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| CONDITION REPORT 0231103 |
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Arlene Tuckerová
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01.03.2003
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ISREAL IN ACTION
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| This year from Nov. 20 to 23 the Israeli performance art festival Blurrr 4 took place in the area surrounding the flea markets in Jaffa. Unlike the previous three years of holding the festival in the closed spaces of a kibbutz, this year’s setting was opened up to the streets in a completely urban context. Amongst the shoppers, strollers, peddlers, and pigeons you felt the Mediterranean Sea and… |
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Jana Kalinová
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01.03.2003
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COMMERCIAL SUPPLEMENT
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| "Commercial supplement Sometimes it happens that everything works out well in the end, and this throws me off so much that everything else, which should follow according to plan, collapses. Professor Knížak recently informed me via e-mail that the Prague Biennial had been a smashing success, the reviews positive, and the National Gallery was choosing ten of the most important works for its… |
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Jan Šerých
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01.03.2003
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AD: PERFECT TENSE
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| Perfect Tense – Painting Today, Prague Castle Riding School, 19. 11 2003 – 14. 3. 2004
Jan Šerých
I know that it‘s not totally in order to criticize an exhibition which (at this moment) exists only in the minds of the curators and in media ads. But allow my purely subjective outburst to be understood as a premature release of steam. From the leaflet announcing the exhibition, I learned for… |
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Redakce
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commentary
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01.03.2003
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PIN A MEDAL ON THAT BOY (THE JINDŘICH CHALUPECKÝ PRIZE)
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| "The Jindřich Chalupecký Prize was awarded to Michal Pěchouček at the end of 2003. The award, which we take great pleasure and irony in comparing to the British Turner Prize, has survived another year, though it has gone through crucial transformations in meaning for this country. Until recently, this was due to its founder Václav Havel and his close connection to the values of the regime… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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focus
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01.03.2003
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END OF THE FAIRY TALE (BETWEEN THE FAIRY TALE AND VÁCLAV STRATIL)
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| " (between the fairy tale and Václav Stratil) A fairy tale resides within the slants of the consciousness. Comparing it to rational mind is denied, as the end result is always untenable, or at best is only considered an emergence of the structures of the collective consciousness. However, at the very moment the fairy tale transforms into the one and only order of the world, it is accepted, and… |
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Radek Wohlmuth
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01.03.2003
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THE SHOSHONE AND THE UNICORN
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| Artist Jan Hísek is not typically described as being unambiguous. The truth is, this is no surprise: there is nothing unambiguous about him. He sails through the Czech art scene as mysteriously as the Flying Dutchman. He represents a special, timeless and possibly outdated phenomenon, which, however, still subconsciously attracts attention. “He’s a Shoshone [ed.— i.e. from another planet],” said… |
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Petr Vaňous
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01.03.2003
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IT’S BEST TO BE AWESOME, OR ON THE EDGE OF THE FAIRY TALE
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| “The capable man is an artist.” (Michal Nesázal) Michal Nesázal (1963) has been working since 1999 on an ever-expanding series of landscape paintings. The viewer is offered insight into diverse landscape frames, where action is allowed full play through the inherent elements: trees, bushes, rocks, lakes, hills and human dwellings (including their shadows). The outer formal diversity of the… |
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Tony Ozuna
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01.03.2003
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GOTT THE ARTIST
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| "A medley of hits plays in a swank Prague restaurant. It’s a recent all-covers affair, belted out by Tom Jones with the floor-stompers, “Theme to Evita,” “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” from the Wizard of Oz soundtrack, Rod Stewart’s “If You Think I’m Sexy,” etc. I’m sure the tourists love this stuff in Vegas; it could even be his actual playlist for casino tours, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s… |
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Travis Jeppesen
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01.03.2003
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STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
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| "As Martin Zet noted in these pages some months ago, contemporary artists are increasingly forced into accepting the status of nomad in order to survive. In terms of the local art scene, the implications of this are more specific. The Western foreigners who began flocking here after the fall of communism, particularly the Americans, largely came in possession of two things: large quantities of… |
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