Articles
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Arlene Tucker
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01.02.2004
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GODS ARE BACK AGAIN
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| With Their New MasterpieceI feel the need to introduce this series as a science project because that’s how I’ve grown to appreciate it most. The difference between this and a science experiment is that the viewer’s conclusion is ultimately irrelevant. A diagram by definition is a plan, a sketch, and a device for explanations, which stem into several paths. It’s one of the oldest forms of… |
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Wolf Günter Thiel
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01.02.2004
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TO TURN AWAY. TO PLEAD
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| Lukas Duwenhögger is a painter in the classical sense of the word, who also meets our expectations of a conceptual artist. He is most concerned with the role of the artist, whose very person is presented as an aspect of artistic culture. Duwenhögger is an artist who draws conclusions from the public reception of his work both through his painting and in his personal life. That is why he moved… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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01.02.2004
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A PORTRAIT IN THE ERA OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
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| Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures. Kunst-Werke Berlin, Auguststrasse 69, till August 8, 2004.In Berlin, apart from the monumental Museum of Modern Art show, Das MoMA, at the New National Art Gallery, visitors should not miss a smaller joint exhibition. On top of all the notorious works this show offers Europe lesser- known works — Andy Warhol’s silent films at Kunst-Werke. The very entrance to the… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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01.02.2004
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SILVINA ARISMENDI
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| We might approach an explanation of what Silvina Arismedi is doing by describing plate techtonics: “Continental plates are slowly rising, falling, bending and bowing. In places where they impact or crunch together, there arises pressure.” The pressure in the activity of Silvina Arismendi fulfils the shaking of one contextual zone upon another. The resulting epicenter of such seismic activity can… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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01.02.2004
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SOŇA GOLDOVÁ
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| Soňa Goldová, born 1979 at Hustopeče u Brna, attended the Academy of Visual Art, Brno (studio of Vladimír Merta). At that time she went through a number of less inventive artistic stages. Her most interesting work emerged later, when she began working with photography.Her first photographic series, entitled Ze života (From Life, 2002) came immediately after her last phase of not too expressive,… |
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Ivan Mečl
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01.02.2004
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STREET ANIMATION
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| Things you don’t know part 2, Home Gallery, Prague, 2.4.–1.5. 2004It’s hilarious. An artist invited to the country wasn’t allowed into the Czech Republic because he forgot to get a visa. A few days prior to entry into the European Union, not even intervention from higher officials could help him. The artist returned to Berlin and the performance didn’t take place. It was postponed. By now we are… |
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Simona Vladíková
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01.02.2004
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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
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| Plug-inFutura Gallery, Prague, 7. 5.–27. 6. 2004Plug in means to be connected, attached, linked up. It is true that most of the art in the Plug In exhibition, couldn’t tell us much without electricity (it is mostly video), but there are things that might be perceived without electric current, so I’d like to consider further the justification for this title. The texts in the catalogue help. The… |
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Tomáš Pospiszyl
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01.02.2004
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DANCE, AFTER ALL, GOD IS A DJ
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| The Contemporary Art Mechanisms and Contemplations of Nicolas BourriaudIt requires courage to grasp a global theory of modern art. The last wave of such efforts were carried out as postmodernist re-evaluations of well-established canons, essentially a revisionist effort encompassing even distant post-war avant-garde history, and paradoxically ignoring complex synchronicities. Even large elaborate… |
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Jiří Ptáček
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01.02.2004
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KLAUS: SERMONS AND THOUGHTS FROM THE PREACHER OF DRESDEN
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| The Ten CommandmentsDeutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, 19. 6.–5. 12. 2004A flaming sword burns above our heads. The process of spiritual globalization began in full steam back when the prophet Mohammed recognized the prophet Moses. Whatever we do, we still bake in the same basin. At a time when an “undeclared” trans-cultural conflict culminates, and the hotter the hotplate of our life can be,… |
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Jeffrey A. Buehler
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01.02.2004
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YOU’LL NEVER SEE THIS SHOW
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| Redas Diržys: Let’s Be Part of the System!Town hall tower, Bílina, 30. 4.–30.5. 2004Redas Diržys’ most recent exhibition, Let’s Be Part of the System!, opened on April 31, 2004, on the eve of Czech entry to the European Union, and it never stood a chance of being noticed. After all, the venue was a town hall tower in the village of Bílina, out on the fringes of the northern Czech borderlands. For… |
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