Přehled příspěvků autora Lenka Vítková
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Lenka Vítková
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01.02.2008
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Q: AGAINST THE CURRENT
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| I am constantly striving to arrive at the moment of zero in art. Neither plus nor minus. Neither too much nor too little.
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Whilst I have been laboring over these words, Igor Korpaczewski has been keeping busy. When I first met Igor to look over some prints, Korpaczewski was exhibiting in the Resetting show Prague’s City Library gallery. At the time when the text was supposed to come out,… |
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Lenka Vítková
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review
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01.02.2008
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A PLACE IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE
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| Maria Lassnig, Serpentine Gallery, London. Curator: Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, April 25 – July 8, 2008
At the recent London exhibition of Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (b. 1919), the large, bright walls of the elegant Serpentine Gallery display sizable figurative oil paintings, often self-portraits, some schematic male and female figures on a white background or symbolic bodies… |
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Lenka Vítková
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01.04.2007
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I SEE, I HEAR, I BURN; A FEW NOTES ON THE SCULPTURES OF MILAN KUNC
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| Despite the fact that Milan Kunc has lived in his summer flat in Prague for three years, he is neither a Prague nor even a Czech painter. The catalogue Milan Kunc Paintings 1973–2006, published this year by Kant publishing house, traces Kunc’s work through the locales which he worked out of: Düsseldorf, Cologne, Los Angeles, New York, Milan, New York, Rome, Tuscany, Schlosstal, Prague… Kunc is… |
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Lenka Vítková
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silverprint
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01.04.2007
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YOUNG MAN WITH A MINOLTA AROUND HIS NECK
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| Photographs from the 1970s in ČSR (Czechoslovak Republic), Gallery U Bílého jednorožce, Klatovy, curators Jan Freiberg and Pavel Vančát, September 2 – October 28, 2007.
Czechoslovaks expected normalization to set in after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from our land. In Gustáv Husák’s opinion, however, the so-called “normalization conditions” had to be imposed with the occupants still in… |
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Lenka Vítková
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interview
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01.03.2007
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AN ANNOUNCED PROTEST INTERVIEW THE WITH RAFANI GROUP
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| Creation—a relentless search for border points, situations—in time traces the space between them, indicating a certain shape. We perceive it in the same way as we finger the shape of a face in darkness. The only difference is that we don’t know which side we are on – inside or on the outside, we cannot tell whether we are touching our own face or someone else’s. We don’t even know if all the… |
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Lenka Vítková
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new face
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01.03.2007
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NO MORE GRAFFITI
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| Does it make any sense to write poetry after the enlightenment, or to paint in the age of digital technology? Along with his daughter, Pavel Štýbr, who was born in 1957 and resides in Pilsen, began to paint after 911 and from that time has created volumes of photographs, collages, assemblages and paintings. His roots lie in Czech landscape painting such as the work of Vaclav Rabas, but… |
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Lenka Vítková
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patronage
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01.02.2007
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POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP
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| The Politics of Friendship exhibition at the Šternberk Gallery featured five works that focused on interventions into the public space. These works were presented in various forms of documentation. All the works have been represented before and some even together; what is remarkable and noteworthy is the manner of presentation. March 20 – April 4, 2007
When a process leads to an artwork as… |
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Lenka Vítková
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new faces
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01.01.2007
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ALICE NIKITINOVÁ
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| If the latest paintings of Alice Nikitinová (1979) were presented with the accompaniment of Coldcut’s music, those anonymous guys clad in brightly colored overalls might gradually start to move. Nikitinová’s previous works have included thematic traffic signs, surface improvements and colored areas projected into the view of people living in a city. By reproducing surfaces while disregarding… |
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Lenka Vítková
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01.01.2007
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NOW ART IS HERE: JIŘÍ VALOCH
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| I’m writing about Jiří Valoch because his textual installations contain a powerful poetry. His recent exhibition in the National Gallery and his work in the Caesar Gallery in Olomouc, a center of the Moravian art scene that influences him so strongly, are the best examples to consider him from. Along with Dalibor Chatrný and J.H. Kocman, he is counted among the conceptual artists in Brno; his… |
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Lenka Vítková
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specialist
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01.01.2007
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A SPECIALIST
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| Boris Spec, who lives in Riga, Latvia, writes about cars for Latvian and Russian magazines. Spec is a nickname for “specialist.” Boris says that his work was serious at first, the typical fare of boys: elaborate drawings of cars, helicopters and boats, all as illusive ballpoint illustrations. One day he drew a goat – seafarer, and uploaded it to the internet. The work was received with tremendous… |
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