Frejm baj frejm
The Frejm baj frejm exhibition introduces works of 17 visual artists from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Mexico who use animation in their art creation.The exhibition functions as a parallel to the animated films presented at the international animation festival Fest Anca and it brings the opportunity to compare the different approaches to animation in film and visual art.
- I tried to organize the exhibition00:00:26.307
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- so that it would make a clear parallel to the film festival Fest Anca.00:00:29.082
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- Thus, the presented animations were in contrast to00:00:35.072
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- the film animations shown at the festival00:00:39.148
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- where spectators watch the full time animations00:00:42.482
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- in the film rooms one after another.00:00:46.368
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- Unlike to the film festival,00:00:49.294
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- each work was installed separately in the exhibition.00:00:51.169
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- The exhibition takes place in two different places.00:00:54.705
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- One part is in Považská gallery of art00:00:57.099
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- and the second part is in New synagogue00:00:59.829
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- (that is currently under the reconstruction.).00:01:02.296
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- I tried to arrange all works thematically.00:01:14.498
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- So in Považská gallery we find Oto Hudec´s work00:01:17.803
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- showing the move of immigrants from their home country00:01:21.675
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- to the dreamland of the first world.00:01:25.380
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- David Možný decomposes a socialistic housing estate and00:01:27.752
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- brings to life inanimate space00:01:31.701
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- and creates a kind of a new movement.00:01:34.948
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- Jan Pfeiffer analyzes movement of people in urban space.00:01:37.782
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- So all three works deal with00:01:41.481
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- the motion in time and space00:01:43.936
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- that's why they were put together.00:01:46.061
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- In the synagogue we can find more heterogeneous works.00:01:50.327
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- However, I tried to make use of the premises as much as possible.00:01:54.266
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- I chose the works that somehow fit in the synagogue00:02:00.829
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- and I installed them in a way00:02:03.310
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- so that the environment would underline the character of each work.00:02:05.248
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- The works were installed in some dark corners,00:02:10.449
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- or directly on the cracked plaster.00:02:14.396
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- Some works were installed site specific,00:02:17.977
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- e.g. Tomas Bujnak´s animation "Workers"00:02:22.073
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- was installed directly on the synagogue's columns.00:02:24.752
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- It presents workers pushing wheelbarrows00:02:29.608
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- and climbing up the columns.00:02:31.918
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- Another example of a site specific art00:02:33.918
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- is Matěj Smetana´s "Factory".00:02:36.482
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- His factory producing stars00:02:38.596
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- or other ideological symbols00:02:40.027
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- fits perfectly into the synagogue premises00:02:42.188
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- as the synagogue is also an ideological place.00:02:45.374
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- My work "324" is directly connected to the Jewish issue.00:02:48.693
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- I was inspired by the subway in Topolčany00:02:53.409
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- from which I visually transformed the list of 324 victims of the Holocaust in that town.00:02:56.345