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Pavel Ondračka
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01.03.2003
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GINA TORNATORE: OUTER AND INNER ACTIONS
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| "The House of Lords of Kunštát in Brno gave young artist Gina Tornatore only her third solo exhibition (after Rome and Milan), where she proved that she is capable of joining intellectual discourse and an emotional, dreamlike logic within her short films. Since 1990, this Australian-born (1969) artist has studied, lived and worked in London, and her work has regularly shown up in collective… |
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Marek Pokorný
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01.02.2003
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IF I WANT TO WRITE A REVIEW, THEN I’LL WRITE IT
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| Jana Kalinová: When I don’t know, so I ask, I would ask, but I don’t know who; Home Gallery, Prague, Sept. 9 – Sept. 13, 2003
Experience tells me that in simple situations in which I don’t really know what to do, only rarely — as a typical representative of the male of the species — do I choose the most effective path: in short, I don’t ask where this or that street is, what is the quickest way… |
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Jeffrey A. Buehler
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review
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01.02.2003
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PAP FRICTION
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| Prague’s Gallery Art Factory came swooping onto the Czech scene from Slovakia last year, unapologetically landing right on Wenceslas Square in a dark industrial box that used to house a large printing factory. With great spirit the walls were painted various hues of a dark red and the space comfortably outfitted with black designer leather couches and chairs. Walking in, one would be hard pressed… |
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Jan Kuneš
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review
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01.01.2003
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BEAUTY ETERNAL 19. 5. - 5. 6. 2003, VŠUP, PRAGUE
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| Vít Soukup paints objects from everyday life of the 1970s in his paintings, which were recently exhibited in the show Krása nesmírná (Eternal Beauty), captured from photographs in the Slovak magazine Dorka. However Soukup’s paintings of photographs from Dorka are so disconcerting and desperate that it is immediately obvious that they do not constitute a pure representation of the magazine.It is… |
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Marcel Fišer
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review
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01.02.2001
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BOHEMIAN BELLY BUTTON
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| Marian Palla, Galerie města Plzně, 12.4. - 24.6. 2001Výstava Mariana Pally v Plzni zahrnovala práce z různých období, které volně rozmístil po sklepních místnostech a ukázal jak věci vytvořené speciálně pro tuto výstavu, tak i některé starší práce. Dá se říci, že díky tomuto typu instalace si s nepříliš vděčným prostorem velice dobře rozuměl. Diváky přivítal obraz, “namalovaný” (a podepsaný)… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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review
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01.02.2001
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SUBTLE SCI-FI
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| Marian Palla, Plzeň City Gallery, 12 April – 24 June 2001Marian Palla’s exhibition in Plzeň was comprised of works from various periods of his career, as well as pieces he had specifically created for this exhibition. By distributing the work freely throughout the gallery’s basement halls he was able to put on a good presentation in this notoriously difficult space. The first image viewers… |
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David Kulhánek
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review
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01.02.2001
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCE VS. DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
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| "Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zurich, 31 March – 27 May 2001Darren Almond (b. 1971) belongs to the youngest generation of British artists who first became known during the great YBA boom. His latest solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich (31 March – 27 May 2001) boasted the qualities of a retrospective, displaying a “cross-section” of Almond’s work from 1996 – 2001. As with Richard Billingham, that… |
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review
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01.02.2001
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FEMALE CITIES
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| "Jitka Hanzlová, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 17 March – 27 May 2001; Female, Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague, 4 May – 23 June 2001It is rare for viewers in the Czech Republic to have an opportunity to see contemporary international art while it is current in prestigious international galleries and institutions. However, a recent constellation of two concurrent exhibitions presented photographs by… |
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Lenka Lindaurová
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review
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01.01.2001
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MINIMALISM AND SPACE
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| Jan Stolín, 5.2m per second. Curated by Monika Mitášová, Pecka Gallery, Prague, 7 February – 16 March 2001Though he’s not well known in Prague, Jan Stolín was right there in the trenches for last year’s Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Following a tight race, the award was spirited away by his more popular peer, David Černý, who, incidentally, was his classmate at Kurt Gebauer’s sculpture studio in the… |
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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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