ARTICLES FROM SECTION: PROFILE
- MAD MEG / Noelle Papay / 1/2010
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... - KASSABOYS: COSMOPOLITAN LOCAL-PATRIOTS / Lenka Kukurová / 1/2010
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... - NEW MYTHOLOGY: THE WORK OF SVÄTOPLUK MYKITA / Lenka Kukurová / 1/2010
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... - TOMÁŠ DŽADOŇ: WILL TO TRADITION AND IMAGES OF NOSTALGIA / Palo Fabuš / 1/2010
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... - XYZ ALL THAT’S IMPORTANT ... IS WITHIN YOUR REACH / Daniel Grúň / 2/2008
In 1997, XYZ formed and descended upon the Bratislava art scene, its roster including Milan Tittel (1966) and Matej Gavula (1972).
They have held several independent exhibitions such as XYZ at UBS (1998) (originally as part of a trio including Peter Ondrušek), Opening at the Cyprian Majerník... - Q: AGAINST THE CURRENT / Lenka Vítková / 2/2008
I am constantly striving to arrive at the moment of zero in art. Neither plus nor minus. Neither too much nor too little.
IKW
Whilst I have been laboring over these words, Igor Korpaczewski has been keeping busy. When I first met Igor to look over some prints, Korpaczewski was exhibiting in... - JOE COLEMAN / Nils Michaelis / 1/2008
Joe Coleman is not your typical “high brow” artist. His roots lie in the American punk music and cartoon scenes of the 1970s. The best part is that over the last fifteen years established collectors and well known galleries in New York and Paris have shown great interest in his work; even The... - MARTIN SEDLÁK / Jan Zálešák / 1/2008
Moravian Gallery, Brno, Pražák Palace Atrium, October 2007 – January 2008
I first encountered the objects of Slovak artist Martin Sedlák in the baroque granary at Klenova, where they were exhibited together with the finalists of the Startpoint 2005 prize. In a space in which I did not expect... - SLÁVA SOBOTOVIČOVÁ - JUST SHORTEN IT! / Edith Jeřábková / 4/2007
An ideal article about Slava Sobotovičová would take the shape of a radically edited work of Dostoevsky, but we’ll deal with that some other time.
E. J.: How should I address you in this article? Sláva Sobotovičova? Sláva S., S.S. or perhaps just S.?
S. S.: Just shorten it. I have a long... - I SEE, I HEAR, I BURN; A FEW NOTES ON THE SCULPTURES OF MILAN KUNC / Lenka Vítková / 4/2007
Despite the fact that Milan Kunc has lived in his summer flat in Prague for three years, he is neither a Prague nor even a Czech painter. The catalogue Milan Kunc Paintings 1973–2006, published this year by Kant publishing house, traces Kunc’s work through the locales which he worked out of:... - SLAVEN TOLJ / Katarína Rusnáková / 3/2007
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... - DANIEL RICHTER’S ABSTRACTIONS OF REALITY / Meike Behm / 3/2007
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... - A REAL PLAY / Helena Bendová / 3/2007
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... - NOW ART IS HERE: JIŘÍ VALOCH / Lenka Vítková / 1/2007
I’m writing about Jiří Valoch because his textual installations contain a powerful poetry. His recent exhibition in the National Gallery and his work in the Caesar Gallery in Olomouc, a center of the Moravian art scene that influences him so strongly, are the best examples to consider him... - ON UROŠ DJURIĆ’S LANGUAGE OF FIGURAL REPRESENTATION: NATURALISTIC MISTAKE / Stevan Vuković / 3/2006
“The author and the work are only the starting points of an analysis whose horizon is a language: there cannot be a science of Dante, Shakespeare, or Racine but only a science of discourses.” Roland Barthes
One of the major obstacles in grasping the specific discourse that Uroš Djurić... - UNITS OF SPEAKERS THREATEN THE PEACE / Ivan Mečl / 3/2003
“And by Wednesday I’ve got to have everything ready. But now if I think about it, there’s still a chance to postpone it, yeah, that would be good, because then I could get done what I haven’t done yet, but then again it’s not like it can wait, and what’s got to get done gets done. But... - METROPOLIS OF SILENCE (RYUTA AMAE) / Linda Fournier / 2/2003
“Synthetic image” is an expression used to describe a painted image numerically processed via informatics. Because it is held in coded form in the memory of the computer — on a magnetic tape or on an optical disc — it is unreadable to the human eye, unless in a projection on a cathode... - ADVICE FROM A POOR RELATIVE / David Kulhánek / 1/2003
Daniel Bozhkov moved to the USA from his native Bulgaria in the early 1990s. Like many other artists from the Eastern Bloc, he took advantage of the open border to go taste what had been forbidden fruit. In many respects even today he is still the same poor relative from the East, an artist with an... - MARTIN PIAČEK SCANS “KINDERVAJCIA” / Mira Keratová / 1/2003
(Kindervajcia are chocolate eggs with toys inside)MARTIN PIAČEK (1972), graduate of Bratislava VŠVU (University of Fine Arts) (studio of professor J. Bartusz 1994-98 and studio of professor J. Jankovič 1998-2000) is the most controversial artist in the Slovak scene. When in January the... - SITUATIONS, CIRCUMSTANCES AND PARTICIPS / Vít Havránek / 1/2002
“It was at the time when I was working with the phenomena of surface adjustments, transparency, reflection — reflection of a situation within an image and the theme on the margin of the image — that was when I started using stencils, spray paint, varnished surfaces and sheets of plastic.”... - ART IS AS SIMPLE AS MOONING / Anatolij Osmolovskij / 4/2001
The Russian painters Alexandre Dubosarsky and Vladimir Vinogradov began collaborating in 1994. Before that time Dubosarsky had been known as one of the most active artists in the Tryokhprudny Gallery, which under the supervision of Avdei Ter-Oganian maintained a constant intensity of exhibition... - CLONED IDENTITY / Vít Havránek / 3/2001
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... - THE REALISTIC OBSESSIONS OF A RECLUSE / Lenka Lindaurová / 1/2001
Most Czechs are familiar with the ironic drawings that depict on the cover of Respekt the less-than-encouraging phenomena of our post-totalitarian society. This political and cultural weekly was originally the samizdat publication Informační Servis whose contributors included the current...
