Статьи
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Thomas Haemmerli
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pesto sauce
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01.03.2007
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ART/BASEL/ETIOPIA
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| Weaving through the crowds at Art Basel 2007, you catch a glimpse of the entire artistic universe of the last one hundred years. Amidst all of the fanfare a new trend has definitively emerged: hypertrophy. Sales figures are increasing, the crowds of visitors are growing, parallel events are mushrooming; and riding in the slipstream of Basel new fairs emerge every year that want to benefit… |
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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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Helena Bendová
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profile
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01.03.2007
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A REAL PLAY
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| The films of Petr Marek are an “improbable” fusion of seeming opposites: they are, at the same time, intuitive and analytical, random and well thought out, staged and documentary in nature, joyously humorous and melancholic, honest and self ironic. Petr Marek works largely with individuals that are close to him, people who share similar ideas and thoughts. Marek’s films are quite original… |
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Edith Jeřábková
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review
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01.03.2007
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OIL ON CANVAS
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| The exhibition, Fire in the Librar y, Demonstration, the Earth and Elsewhere, can, without hesitation, be presented by the subtitle of one of the exhibited works, The Axe. It deals with a quote from a scientific publication of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, published in Berlin in 1922, within which the artists have found key idealistic passages underlined by someone. “There is a… |
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Meike Behm
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profile
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01.03.2007
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DANIEL RICHTER’S ABSTRACTIONS OF REALITY
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| At the large solo exhibition of the painter Daniel Richter at the Hamburg Art Centre (Kunsthalle), Meike Behm examines selected abstract and figurative works in search of overarching themes. Strikingly, Richter titles each of his paintings – an indication that his non-graphic works do not exclusively deal with painterly problematics but pursue passions that are comparable to those of the … |
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Katarína Rusnáková
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profile
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01.03.2007
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SLAVEN TOLJ
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| Though already one of the most significant contemporary artists on the Croatian scene, Slaven Tolj—a multimedia artist, organizer of art activities and curator—has recently achieved international recognition for his inconspicuous Ready-mades, installations, photography, and performances presenting distinct political and social- -cultural criticism.
In the spring of 2007, Tolj’s work was… |
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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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William Hollister
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baking
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01.03.2007
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THE BREAD FACTORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY
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| A few years ago, Piotr Mankiewicz wished to build a “museum of bread,” using an abandoned bakery in the Polish post-industrial city of Bytom. But that town’s government thought that the idea was stupid, and did not give permission for the building’s use. So Mankiewicz went to the nearby village of Radzionkow to fulfill his dream. Today, a large billboard greets visitors near the Katowice… |
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Diana Mačulina
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moscow essay
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01.03.2007
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MEANWHILE IN MOSCOW
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| Recent events in Moscow demonstrate that contemporary art is coming into fashion: private funds and museums have opened. The day immediately following the opening of a show curated by Oleg Kulik called I Believe at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, a swarm of pilgrims of all ages and classes flocked to see it. This was lot of people for a Monday when one would think people should be at work.… |
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