Přehled příspěvků autora Tomáš Pospiszyl
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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focus
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01.02.2002
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GRANT ME A WISH, TOM OF FINLAND
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| Everybody knows what a man looks like. But to see a real man, all you have to do is take a look at several pictures by the king of gay esthetics.
A biker stands at a bar, leather cap, mustache, and under that a roguish smirk. His clothes are a little ragged, and his chest muscles rival a woman’s unwieldy breasts. In the leg-squeezing trousers we see all too clearly the anatomy of a giant penis.… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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exhibition
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01.03.2001
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OVER THE EDGE OF REALITY
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| "Science fiction and fantasy literature form a rather clearly defined genre whose core readers make up a closed community. Their internal codes and style may appear almost ridiculous to outside observers. The lives of hard-core fans reflect their efforts to live, at least in part, in the same parallel worlds described in their favorite books, and they support each other in this endeavor. Coming… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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reportage
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01.02.2001
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THE B.K.S.
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| on the trail of the 3rd assembly in London / an existential report
In January 2001, the secret society B.K.S. (Bude Konec Světa – the End of the World is Coming) convened their third official assembly in London’s Bermondsley neighborhood. Almost no information about this covert meeting leaked out to the general public. What had the results of the meeting been? Might a visit to the venue itself… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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review
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01.01.2001
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STRATIL TWICE OVER
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| "Václav Stratil, Drawings 1955-2000, Museum umění Olomouc, 30 November 2000 – 11 February 2001. Large “Black” Drawings, Gallery of Fine Arts, Dům Umění–Ostrava, 28 November 2000 – 27 January 2001Once again Prague has been deemed too small for important exhibitions of Czech art and one has to set off to the regions to see them. But a little trip never hurt anyone, and this is especially true of a… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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focus
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01.01.2001
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HEAVY METAL
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| "Skulls, tons of skulls. Black, night and horror. A grave. Satan and death, terrifying noise, an end to all hope, demons and madness. All standard fare in heavy metal music, along with skeletons, blood, doomed civilizations, vomit, black magic, war, blasphemy, booze, freakish animals, pierced eyes, cemeteries, fetuses, Armageddon, violence, underground crypts stacked with corpses, the nation,… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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taboo
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01.05.2000
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GETTING THE BETTER OF DEATH
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| "Getting the Better of DeathMax Klinger’s painting Death Urinating (c. 1880) depicts precisely what the title says: The unusually tall format shows a skeleton urinating into a lake amid the quiet landscape. The picture captures Death in an untraditional, intimate moment. The picture’s composition suggests that the viewer is an observer hidden at a safe distance and Death has no idea anyone is… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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info
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01.03.2000
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NEW YORK
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| Very few American critics are missing out on the opportunity to compare this year’s Whitney Museum Biennial to the Greater New York exhibition at P.S.1. Both of them present current American, or, more precisely, New York, art. Both of them gave up on having a thematic approach, and both of them are the result of a cooperating curatorial team. Rather than a traditional museum exhibition, it… |
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