Panel Story

• The Radislav Matuščík´s scholarship is an educational program00:00:06.769
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• of the Bratislava City Gallery organized regularly since 2004.00:00:09.218
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• It is its 10th year.00:00:14.934
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• This project originated thanks to the initiation of Richard Gregor00:00:17.216
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• because we as students didn´t have any opportunity to practice our knowledge.00:00:21.607
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• We decided to let young curators to suggest the concept of this project.00:00:27.432
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• Each year a selected project is realized in the Bratislava City Gallery.00:00:32.868
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• This scholarship was originally named "Scholarship for young curators"00:00:39.701
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• and was focused sociologically when they deal with gallery as a institution,00:00:46.000
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• or with relation of gallery to viewers.00:00:52.358
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• They were projects of conceptual character.00:00:55.712
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• During last four years this project dynamized a bit, because00:00:59.160
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• we opened it also for artists and postgraduate students,00:01:03.304
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• it means for people who have some experience.00:01:08.442
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• Also we started to cooperate with the Czech republic, Brno.00:01:12.479
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• All that help to dynamize the project.00:01:15.581
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• This exhibition is called "Panelstory".00:01:22.791
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• It is the 10th exhibition.00:01:26.680
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• The title of the exhibition is inspired by the film title of00:01:30.170
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• a Czech film director, Věra Chytilová,00:01:33.423
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• "Panelstory or how a housing estate is being built" from 1979.00:01:35.667
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• As the title says, it is a search for visuality of a housing estate.00:01:39.672
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• When designing the exhibition we were inspired00:01:44.688
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• by the theory of a French essayist Olivier Mongin who speaks00:01:46.741
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• about two types of discourse able to perceive urban environment.00:01:50.611
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• The first one is the discourse of an engineer or urbanist00:01:54.540
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• who is objective and rational.00:01:59.451
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• The other one is a discourse of a poet, this one is more subjective.00:02:01.703
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• An artist perceives its surroundings through its aesthetic influence.00:02:06.334
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• This type of environment perception is very significant to us00:02:13.861
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• when designing the exhibition.00:02:16.314
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• The exhibition is divided into two parts.00:02:17.667
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• The criterion of this settlement is the perspective of a look.00:02:20.584
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• The first part of the exhibition focused on the exterior of a housing estate.00:02:26.339
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• In these works the panel architecture represents a specific sign figure.00:02:33.633
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• On one side as a symbol related to totality or to politics of former regime.00:02:38.082
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• It my be seen in the artworks by Martin Kochan, Jaroslav Varga or David Možný.00:02:42.057
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• Other manner of thinking focused primarily on formal and aesthetic qualities00:02:51.170
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• of a housing estate is present in the paintings.00:02:55.595
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• The authors deal with uniformity and anonymous poetics of this space.00:03:00.253
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• They work with a panel house as with an abstract lattice00:03:07.121
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• or a geometrical grid.00:03:11.893
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• This appears in the works by Juraj Toman, Lucia Tálová or Petr Cvik.00:03:13.440
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• As Lucia has already said, our view on a housing estate00:03:29.928
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• has ambiguous character.00:03:35.245
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• The present housing estates are places where most people live.00:03:39.157
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• In our case, the interest is focused on the connection to a human being.00:03:46.371
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• It is not just a theme limited by architecture, urbanism or building,00:03:52.815
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• but we are really focused on the connection to a man.00:03:58.986
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• That´s why in the second part we situate ourself into the opposite position.00:04:08.480
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• We change the perspective of view.00:04:10.431
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• We are directed at the interior.00:04:13.457
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• We search for a human factor in flat units.00:04:16.991
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• To be able to quote my favourite sentence from our press release,00:04:25.806
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• it´s about filling a certain kind of architecture by different kinds of human characters.00:04:29.361
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• It is possible to say that this second part creates an antithesis to the first one00:04:36.268
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• by a connector or platform where two exhibition units may encounter.00:04:42.131
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• It is in fact one of the basic thesis of human geography.00:04:52.466
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• Actually, it is an interaction between a man and a space.00:04:59.728
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• It is a constant dialogue between a human factor and architectonic.00:05:03.708
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• I was inspired by my experience.00:05:11.201
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• I moved from a block of flats to another flat that has a similar00:05:17.228
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• ground plan as my former flat.00:05:27.366
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• It made me think how space is able to form or deform its users.00:05:35.278
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• How I am influenced by the space.00:05:43.384
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• I would say that this is very typical of this generation from 1980´s.00:05:46.355
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• The people who were removed to the housing estates.00:05:57.479
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• I can´t exactly say which generation.00:06:00.909
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• I would rather say, it is a Slovak or eastern phenomena.00:06:05.917

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