RUUD VAN EMPEL
Portréty nizozemského autora inspirovaného „naivním realismem“ působí na diváka jako sny o ráji. Autor využívá ke vzniku svých děl nejrůznější obrazové prameny jako skeny, fotografie nebo obrázky z magazínů a nechá z nich na své počítačové obrazovce vznikat stromy, květiny, listy, zvířata a osoby, které pak ve smyslu koláže srůstají do umělých krajin. Magické scenérie vytváří pole napětí mezi realitou a fantazií.
- Leica Gallery Prague is a photographic gallery00:00:07.140
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- that concentrates on famous photographers´presentations.00:00:10.637
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- We organize one Czech exhibition per year and one on serious social worldwide problem.00:00:15.305
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- At this moment, we present one great photographer, Ruud van Empel.00:00:20.223
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- He is exceptional.00:00:26.669
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- Some critics would not call his work photography.00:00:29.953
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- People think it is a drawing not a photo.00:00:35.291
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- But I have to say that every single object on his pictures is taken by a camera.00:00:39.335
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- He goes to the jungle, takes pictures of animals and plants00:00:46.210
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- and makes new pictures of them.00:00:51.532
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- There are mainly children present on his photos.00:00:54.606
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- He takes picture of them in the same position, and00:00:58.215
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- put them into an ideal picture.00:01:01.539
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- Something like a paradise pictures originate, but if a man look closer00:01:07.710
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- mainly at the white children, they are almost scary.00:01:11.537
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- We can´t recognize it so much on the black children.00:01:14.894
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- I think that beauty is not always ideal, or beautiful. Even it can be terrifying.00:01:19.544
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- Ruud van Empel is Dutch.00:01:28.711
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- He is over 40.00:01:32.389
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- He has become famous for his collages.00:01:36.220
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- He started to take pictures of models.00:01:39.610
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- But later on, he dressed them in different clothes and changed them their hair.00:01:43.725
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- This series we have here made him famous.00:01:49.586
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- He started to do beautiful things.00:01:54.960
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- These collages started to be sold.00:01:58.526
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- He has been exhibited not only in worldwide famous institutions00:02:01.164
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- but a few years ago when he exhibited this cycle in Paris Photo,00:02:05.837
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- it contains series like Moon, Green, No Name, and Venus.00:02:13.075
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- These series started to be sold immediately.00:02:21.032
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- There was a big demand.00:02:24.642
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- Every photo is done twelve times.00:02:28.000
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- They are almost sold out.00:02:33.562
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- They cost from 50,000 up to 80,000 euros.00:02:35.746
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- I have been interested in him since Paris Photo.00:02:42.076
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- Paris Photo is the biggest expo of contemporary photography in Louvre, Paris.00:02:46.798
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- We presented ourselves in the years 2003, 2004.00:02:50.051
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- Since then I have been interested in him.00:02:53.075
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- I didn´t know that he would become famous so quickly.00:02:55.379
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- Once I was reading a book about Ruud van Empel00:03:00.136
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- when Tono Stano came and asked me if I would like to present Ruud van Empel.00:03:03.361
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- He told me that he knew him that they met in Amsterdam.00:03:06.923
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- Tono Stano told me that Ruud van Empel would like to have00:03:11.088
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- an exhibition here so I didn´t have to speak with any agencies and galleries.00:03:14.111
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- He could lend it for free.00:03:21.533