FIFTY-FIFTY GROUP
Ondřeje Brodyho a Viktora Freša už dlouho spojuje záliba v kontroverzních a provokativních tématech, jako je sex nebo násilí, a drzost, s jakou se do těchto témat pouštějí. Výstava v galerii NOD je toho dokladem.
Ondřej Brody a Viktor Frešo se setkali během studií v ateliéru malby Vladimíra Skrepla na Akademii výtvarných umění v Praze, oba se přesto daleko častěji věnují médiu instalace, videa či performance. Brodyho s Frešem už dlouho spojuje záliba v kontroverzních a provokativních tématech, jako je sex nebo násilí, a drzost, s jakou se do těchto témat pouštějí. Galerie NoD není prvním místem, kde vystavují nebo performují společně.
S tvorbou Viktora Freša (1974) je nerozlučně spojen termín EGOART, který vystihuje umělcovu koncepci „sobeckého“ umění, jehož středobodem je osoba samotného autora. Frešovy výstupy jsou většinou jednoduché, přímočaré, mnohdy si vystačí se sprejovým nápisem na zdi galerie. V NoDu se představuje výběrem ze svých „machistických“ fotografií, v nichž inscenuje ženy do poněkud neuctivých situací, a jednou instalací. To vše doplnil pozvánkou na svou svatbu.
Ondřej Brody (1980) prezentuje dvě videa, která se (pro Brodyho už tradičně) pohybují v oblasti pornografie. Při natáčení snímku Profesionální nevěra umělec zaplatil manželovi za to, že dobrovolně bude sledovat soulož vlastní manželky s jiným mužem. Brody tentokrát nezobrazuje explicitně sex samotný, spokojil se pouze se zvukovou kulisou soulože a objektiv kamery namířil cynicky do tváře ne právě šťastného manžela. Video Databáze je pak jednoduchým záznamen umělcova rozhovoru (castingu) s jedním z českých pornoproducentů, který autorovi prozrazuje choulostivé informace o svých „hercích“. Brodyho práce se opět pohybují na samotném okraji toho, co nazýváme uměním, a nastolují složité otázky etiky umělecké tvorby i života obecně.
- I don´t understand why we exhibit together.00:00:03.472
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- We don´t have anything in common.00:00:05.936
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- This is the first time I have met Ondřej Brody.00:00:07.280
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- No. We have known each other yet for seven years.00:00:11.128
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- I don´t remember him.00:00:14.766
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- I don´t want to have anything in common with him.00:00:16.039
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- Neither do I.00:00:18.054
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- He is a looser.00:00:19.163
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- He is a swine and animal.00:00:20.457
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- He is a parvenue from the East00:00:22.587
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- who parasitizes on poor Czech artists.00:00:24.182
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- I never want to exhibit00:00:29.861
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- with some primitives like this who let children fuck.00:00:35.171
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- He is an animal for me.00:00:37.417
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- Once you do some art at secondary school or at university00:00:43.409
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- and then people think only pussies, cocks and shits.00:00:47.567
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- But in fact it´s true.00:00:51.807
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- Whatever else I do, I will still vomit potato salad.00:00:54.091
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- I am exhibiting photagraphic works from 2008,00:00:59.367
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- and my wedding invitation.00:01:03.003
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- We put it there because of the video that stays next.00:01:10.642
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- It is related. Both are married couple.00:01:13.174
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- There is a situation where a husband is looking at his wife fucking their friend.00:01:15.688
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- I think that it might be comical to put it next to each other00:01:22.056
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- because it might be close Viktor´s future.00:01:26.429
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- He tries to make something from a shit.00:01:28.283
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- It is like when a shit manages to climb the cupboard,00:01:30.212
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- it starts to think that is an iguana.00:01:33.382
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- I like pussies.00:01:35.610
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- I always wanted to take pictures during some porno shooting.00:01:45.054
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- I would like to be like a tourist.00:01:47.035
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- I don´t have money for it, and I do not want to deal with that.00:01:48.815
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- I have something else to do.00:01:50.292
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- I have a gallery.00:01:51.585
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- I am lazy, I´ve put the weight on, and I don´t want to do art.00:01:52.863
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- It is annoying.00:01:54.440
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- It is a crap.00:01:55.835
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- So I have decided to go the easier way.00:01:57.144
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- I do kind of autoportraits.00:01:59.427
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- I´ve tried to put there things I like.00:02:07.484
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- For instance, rackets.00:02:09.630
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- I like perverse things, pure things.00:02:11.341
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- I´ve abused the modelling world a bit.00:02:13.638
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- It is more a sexistic thing.00:02:21.027
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- We could pretend that this is art,00:02:22.955
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- however my only aim was to get the most beautiful girls, and00:02:27.064
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- and to play with them.00:02:31.252
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- Speak!00:02:33.750
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- I´ve thought about infidelity as a phenomenon.00:02:35.878
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- I´ve done many "porno productions".00:02:44.424
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- and I´ve met many people, and those people live normally.00:02:47.658
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- They have families.00:02:53.757
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- I have been interested how they connect their private life with their work.00:02:55.836
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- I´ve found that couple.00:03:00.142
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- At that time they were newlydes.00:03:02.790
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- They limit themselves in their works.00:03:05.454
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- She is allowed to act only with friends and lesbians.00:03:07.750
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- He is allowed to act only in gay porno.00:03:15.793
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- Marriage is something like possession.00:03:41.869
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- When you are in a relation, you possess each other.00:03:45.495
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- I´ve wanted to be confronted with this.00:03:48.860
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- We shot the sex scene very explicitly,00:03:51.641
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- but at the end I was bored by seeing that,00:03:53.905
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- on the other hand I was excited about the end00:03:56.855
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- where the tripod stood next to the sofa, and00:03:59.988
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- the husband´s perspective.00:04:02.468
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- Thanks to its proximity it has drawn some strenght.00:04:09.168
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- The second video is databasis of porno actors.00:04:12.152
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- We were talking with Tomáš, and he´s showing us all databasis.00:04:17.590
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- It is an interesting sonda of people who work in this industry.00:04:23.970
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- We are both expecting baby.00:04:34.590
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- That connects us.00:04:37.206