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Noelle Papay
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01.01.2010
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MAD MEG
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| Carrying a basket full of pens, pencils, paper, and ink, Mad Meg would go on walks—and be drawn into the depths of the earth, buried among putrefied human bodies, pursued by insect men and turbid animals. And she relates all this to us through her drawings of what she’d seen...
Harmonious and nightmarish, her universe is a reflection of our time, our
society. Her Tableaux de Digestions,… |
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Lenka Kukurová
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01.01.2010
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KASSABOYS: COSMOPOLITAN LOCAL-PATRIOTS
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| Three artists make up the Kassaboys. The group’s part catchy-pop, part local-patriotic moniker is a reference to their hometown, Košice, Slovakia. The “boys of Košice” are Radovan Čerevka (b. 1980) Tomáš Makara and Peter Vrábeľ (both b. 1982). Their art collective is one of several products of a very strong graduating class from the Faculty of the Arts at the Technical University of Košice, also… |
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Palo Fabuš
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01.01.2010
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TOMÁŠ DŽADOŇ: WILL TO TRADITION AND IMAGES OF NOSTALGIA
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| Today, more than ever, we find ourselves surrounded by images from the past. Yet we have a paradoxical tendency to describe our relationship to the past with words like disinterest, shallowness and loss. These words suggest a tendency to head through our daily lives with no significant concern for either the past or the future. Our contemporary society often feels disjointed, lacking in a… |
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Palo Fabuš
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editorial
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01.01.2010
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A REEVALUATION OF REEVALUATIONS
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We have just had the end of a decade, with all the requisite media retrospectives and reevaluations. Although the tendency to review and analyze has been ascribed to the entire modern era, it would seem that there has been an upsurge in looking back into the past. It has been said that the 20th century came to a close with the events of September 11, but we still seem to be coming to terms with… |
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Palo Fabuš
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essay
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01.01.2010
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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE WOR(L)D OF MOUTH
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| In the 2008 film Untraceable, a team of FBI agents is investigating a series of murders committed via the internet. The murderer ties his victims to killing mechanisms monitored by web cameras, with their suffering (and ultimate death) directly dependent on the number of visitors. Users watch the website fully aware of their role, but visitor levels nevertheless continue to increase. The viewer… |
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Palo Fabuš
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01.01.2010
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B U L L S E Y E = R E C O R D
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| Is life a story with a climax in the form of retrospective and reconciliation, or can it be limited to a series of successes without a clear goal? Today, we approach our own biographies in the same way as we do literary stories; life becomes a record of life.
Since 2002, Amsterdam’s KesselsKramer publishing house has published a series of books entitled In Almost Every Picture, featuring… |
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Ivan Mečl a Veronika Vomáčková
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grayscale
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01.01.2010
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IN FACT, I DIDN’T START ON ANY JOURNEY
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| Sometimes, we encounter the artists that appear in our magazine in an unusual manner. I personally have a knack for coming across artists who show no interest in publicity. Take the art of Veronika Vomáčková, for instance: it was introduced to us by her mother. First she called our offices, and when she came in person, she told us about how her daughter had run off to Spain and was living there… |
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Lars Fr. H. Svendsen: A Philosophy of Boredom (an extract) Translated by John Irons
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eternal recurrence
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01.01.2010
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BOREDOM AND MEANING
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| That boredom is probably more widespread than ever before can be established by noting that the number of ‘social placebos’ is greater than it has ever been.1 If there are more substitutes for meaning, there must be more meaning that needs to be substituted.2 Where there is a lack of personal meaning, all sorts of diversions have to create a substitute – an ersatz-meaning. Or the cult of… |
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Lenka Kukurová
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01.01.2010
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NEW MYTHOLOGY: THE WORK OF SVÄTOPLUK MIKYTA
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| In the 19th century, Central Europe experienced a wave of National Revivals, which were heavily influenced by national mythology. Only now can we differentiate between the two – for a long time, national mythology and national history were revered as one and the same thing. It was not only unpopular, but also unacceptable, to question this presumption. As a result, national identity was part… |
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Lizzy Le Quesne
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solutions
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01.01.2010
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GOSHKA MACUGA: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST. WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON.
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| In her installation The Nature of the Beast London based Polish artist and 2008 Turner Prize nominee Goshka Mucuga has created a unique venue for public gatherings. Boldly setting her own sculpture alongside one of Picasso’s greatest masterpieces, and an assortment of past and current documentation, this forceful new work speaks of complex, historically informed, human drives. The work explores… |
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We Are Rising National Gallery For You! Go to Kyjov by Krásná Lípa no.37.