Articles
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Alena Boika
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Belarus
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01.04.2004
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MADE IN BELARUS
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| Konstantin Goretsky, a modern Belarusian artist, who works in different media such as painting, photography, and posters, created in 1987 a group of independent artists called KOMI-KON, that realized a number of significant projects among which was, Evacuation Plan. In 1996, he organized a musical and artistic salon, In an Attic, which hosted free art exhibitions and concerts for several years… |
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Jan Andres
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profile
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01.04.2004
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THREE SOURCES AND THREE PARTS OF GEOMETRISING VISIONS OF LADISLAV DANĚK
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| Faculty of Science, Palacky University, Olomouc
Ladislav Daněk (b.1958) is a reputable Olomouc artist and a respected art theoretician. Let us refer to more eligible ones as far as the basic characteristics of his work are concerned. The three following quotations reflect sufficiently the nature and un-interchangeability of Daněk´s hand:
“Geometry, geometry, geometry. That is what Daněk´s… |
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Maria Rus Bojanová
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commentary
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01.04.2004
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A NEW MUSEUM IN CEAUŞESCU’S PALACE
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| The October inauguration of Bucharest’s National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) may be the spark of vitality that will bring Romanian artistic society away from its transitional struggle. Situated in the east wing of Ceauşescu’s palace, the museum is huge. Although it occupies only 4% of the building which, with 400,000 m2, is the largest in the world, second only to the Pentagon, it spans… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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commentary
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01.04.2004
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REVOLUTION IN ROMANIA
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| The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest lies in a bizarre place. The memory of one of the biggest architectonical eccentricities of late communism, Ceauşescu’s palace, House of the People can not be so easily erased. Even when a democratic parliament moves in there from one side and the museum of contemporary art from the other, its genius loci breathes down at you right at… |
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Alena Boika
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info
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01.04.2004
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MOSCOW CASE: FROM DIALECTICS OF HOPE TO A CHRONOLOGY OF HOPELESSNESS
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| The First Moscow Biennale with a meaningful name Dialectics of Hope will open on January 28, 2005. This first one will be the most scandalous one. The scandal is associated with the two most prominent curators Viktor Miziano and Joseph Backstein. Initially, both names were among the head curators. Then, it turned out that Miziano was absent from the curatorial group.
On May 22, 2004, it became… |
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Marta Smolińska-Byczuk
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poland
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01.04.2004
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KITSCH AND KEN’S AUNT A PORTRAIT OF POLISH CONTEMPORARY ART
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| Poland’s political breakthrough in 1989 brought no significant breakthrough in art. News was widespread in the nineties of a critical art directing its sharp point at Democles and deconstructing the reality of a country freshly freed from the Communist regime. Communism was replaced by consumer society and the worship of eternal youth. Artists called attention to the fact that in 1989 Poles did… |
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Leng Lin
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china
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01.04.2004
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CHINESE ART: PERSISTENCE OF GLOBALISM
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| A new dynamic in contemporary art over the past decade has emerged with a pivotal role played by biennales and triennales. Artists of diverse cultural origins are seen trying various experiments and expressions that reflect their own individual vision of the future. In such an environment, where everyone is trying to enter the international art arena, never before have so many local artists had… |
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Travis Jeppesen
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sound art
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01.04.2004
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SOME STEPS TOWARDS THE RECONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
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| Integrated Music, Ars Morta Universum
a Metaphysics of Confrontation
As artists, it is nearly impossible to decipher their intent, let alone begin to classify their activities under any established category. “Art,” “music,” “performance” all lose their implicit meanings when you begin to apply them to the artists associated with the mysterious Prague-based umbrella organization known as Ars… |
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Alena Boika
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Belarus
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01.04.2004
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MIRED IN BELARUS - A CROW SLEEPING ON A FENCE DEFECATES ONTO PEOPLE’S HATS
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| During decades, a rigid ideology, which created a wide field for the artistic game, reigned over this territory. The system was there for realistic illustrations, for resistance within the permitted underground frameworks, or for manifold artistic irony. The system was habitual. When this rigid generating system disappeared, some confusion took its place: who is to fight against, who is to resist… |
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Olga Kovalenková
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Belarus
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01.04.2004
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THE ARTISTS OF THE BOG EMPIRE
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| Paradoxically enough, Belarusian cultural scene seems to have quite a lot of gifted contemporary artists, but no contemporary art.
Ideological, philosophical and stylistic trends of the last decade, associated with contemporary art in the West, have not yet been analyzed intellectually or popularized among the general public in Belarus. As such, it is easy to manipulate the consciousness of the… |
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