Статьи
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Viktor Kolář
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project
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01.03.2001
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TRADITIONAL BEAUTY
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| "In his project Hometown, Krzysztof Zielinski takes us back to his hometown and the time of his childhood. He sets out on a dark, cloudy day in autumn. With the first snow, the photographs begin to feature blurred contours that fall into deeper layers. The photographs are not about capturing an angle, but rather about searching for internal mirroring, the inconspicuous polarity of objects… |
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Milan Salák
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artist
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01.03.2001
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ARTIST OF A NEW ERA
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| "Biographical art novels, plays, films, TV series and talk shows can all be trawled in the search for an archetype of the artist, but it’s a rich field and the range of images is broad. The key to identifying a true artist is the recognition of certain fundamental signifiers (in addition, naturally, to quality output). Since a systematic list of such signs is not the subject of this text, I will… |
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Vít Havránek
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profile
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01.03.2001
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CLONED IDENTITY
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| "Those familiar with the Czech and Slovak art scenes may recognize the name Stano Filko. And very likely those same people would, without hesitation, and mostly based on his initial oeuvre, place him in the 1960s context – rightfully so. Few recall, however, what exactly it was that this artist did back then, and perhaps only a handful of Slovak art historians know what he`s been working on… |
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Keiko Sei
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artist
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01.03.2001
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THE MONOSODIUM EFFECT
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| "From MSG to ZenJuly 25, 1908 is an historic day. Unaware of the consequences, Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo University is patenting his method of manufacturing Glutamic acid. He has discovered the secret of “the fifth taste,” or umami (deliciousness), and extracted it from the Kombu seaweed that his wife brings home from the market. In fact, Ikeda also goes on to discover a way to mass… |
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Ursula Panhans-Bühler
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exhibition
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01.03.2001
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A HUNTER`S PARAPHRASE
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| "Bambi’s story is well known, but his origins less so. In the 1920s, Austrian writer Felix Salten not only wrote the educational romance about an earnest young fawn, a loving mother doe and an authoritarian father buck, but he also penned the lascivious story of Josephine, a Vien-nese prostitute. The story was written in such a way that we cannot be asolutely sure if real or only literary… |
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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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Karel Císař
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audio-video
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01.03.2001
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TOMORROW`S WORLD
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| When Jonathan Romney, art critic for the Guardian, had to decide which works to highlight from the blockbuster exhibition Apocalypse in London last year, he singled out the short film flex by young British artist Chris Cunningham, who was showing his own work for the first time. Before Apocalypse he mostly shot music videos and commercials, and prior to that he made special effects for films like… |
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Miloš Vojtěchovský
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film
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01.03.2001
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TRANSLATED BY VLADAN ŠÍR
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| "“We have been ‘liberated’ in every sense of the term, so much so that we have moved beyond a certain spacetime, we’ve left a certain horizon where the real was possible because gravitation was still strong enough for things to reflect on themselves and thereby possess or acquire some sort of duration (duree) and outcome.”Jean Baudrillard, Pataphysics of Year 2000The simulation of an object in… |
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