Artículos
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Klaus Gallwitz
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reviews
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01.03.2002
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THE GERMAN CORNER
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| "The German Corner; Heather Allen, Susanne Britz, Filipa Cesar, Koscheisen & Hullman, Zoltan Laszlo, Bernd Mechler, Jiří Surůvka, Barbara Willie, Simone Zaugg; Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, 26 June–31 August, 2002German Corner is Germany’s very popular tourist destination. It lies in the city of Koblenz and is a peninsula where the rivers Rhine and Mosel merge. The place owes its fame to a… |
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Susan Buck-Morss
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Teoría
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01.03.2002
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KING KONG AND THE PALACE OF THE SOVIETS
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| "The movie King Kong opened in New York theaters on 2 March 1933. Two months later on May 5, Moscow announced the winner of the architectural design competition for the Palace of the Soviets. If one compares the drawing of the final variant of the Palace, which incorporated Stalin’s significant modifications, with a widely distributed publicity poster for King Kong (not a still, incidentally,… |
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Nuevas Caras
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01.03.2002
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SYLVIE VONDŘEJCOVÁ
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| "(b. 1976) has studied since 1997 at Marian Karel’s Glass in Architecture studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2002 she finished a semester in the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA. Previously she also spent two semesters in Aleš Veselý’s Studio of Monumental Sculpture at the Fine Arts Academy in Prague.Even though Sylvie Vondřejcová attends the… |
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Lucia Gavuĺová
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reviews
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01.03.2002
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PRIESTOR VZŮRU NOHOMA (UPSIDE DOWN, GALÉRIA PRIESTOR FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS, BRATISLAVA)
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| Upside Down: Gabika Binderová, Marko Blažo, Veronika Bromová, Eva Holubíková, Aneta Mona Chiša, Marek Kvetán, Zbigniew Libera, Hajnal Németh, Vladimir Nikolić, Maria Pask, Rasto Sedlacik,Krassimir Terziev, Vera Večanski and Dušan Zahoranský, Curator: Juraj Čarný, Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava,7 June–30 June, 2002The name of Galéria Priestor’s Upside Down exhibition alludes to… |
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Václav Hájek
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Perfil
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01.03.2002
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BLURRED VISION (JAKUB ŠPAŇHEL)
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| "Jakub Špaňhel, a recent graduate of Milan Knížák’s studio at Prague’s Fine Arts Academy, is currently working on a series of paintings portraying church interiors. He exhibited four of these, titled Baroque, at this year’s FAA graduation exhibition at Veletržní Palace.Execution of theme has over time gone through apparent changes; it appears that the theme itself is merely a premature motive for… |
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art projects
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01.03.2002
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XENIA GALJAJEVA FROM HER FIRST BOOK OF STORIES 1999/2001
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| "PrefaceShall I explain myself? My reasons for taking photos and the stories that go with them? It all started when I came from Russia to the Netherlands: I was desperately homesick. I missed people and places — everything familiar and so different. Nobody in the Netherlands could imagine my life in Russia and the other way around — I didn’t like this “double life.”On one of my vacations, I got… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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focus
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01.03.2002
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FORGOTTEN GENIUS OF CZECH ART
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| Zdeněk Burian is a remarkable artist who has yet to receive satisfactory acclaim for all the aspects of his rich oeuvre. There is perhaps no other artist who contributed more to the idea of what visual art looks like. Serious art historians turn their noses up at the adventure illustrator. Burian’s hard-core fans on the other hand lack the necessary distance and ability to place his work in a… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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focus
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01.03.2002
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THE AUTHORS
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| "The draftsmen who assisted in creating Octobriana were masters of the adventure illustration genre in Czechoslovakia. Bohumil “Bimba” Konečný (19 April 1918–14 January 1990) made most of the drawings and covers. Born in Pilsen, West Bohemia, he contributed to magazines such as Mladý Hlasatel (Young Herald), Vpřed (Forward), Stezka (Trail) and Ohníček (Fire). While his work initially reflected… |
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