Andy Warhol It’s only rock’n’roll
Peter Kalmus pripravil pre Múzeum Andy Warhol v Medzilaborciach „Jesennú plavbu s novými prácami“.
Týždeň pred výstavou zhamburgeroval poľský Fiat veľkým kovovým kolesom. Na kolese bol nápis po rómsky: Lepší bicykel ako auto.
Na vernisáži zavolal požiarnikov, lebo tak vraj zviditeľňovali popartisti svoje akcie.
Na vernisáži mal pekný sivý preliv ako Andy.
A ušil si tri kožené bundy, a obliekol si takú s vojenskými signalizačnými baterkami.
Na schodoch hrala skupina a básnik.
A výstava bola prevažne divadelno-scénicko-kostýmovo-rekvizitová, plno objektov, pozbieraných vecí, občas video s tancovaním. Neboli tam jeho čiarkované obrazy, z ktorých bolia oči, a korózna grafika bola asi iba jedna.
- When did you arrive?00:00:50.265
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- Only a minute ago.00:00:51.749
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- It is more a theatrical exhibition,00:01:53.896
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- with a stage and setting,00:01:56.848
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- costumes, props and masks.00:01:58.533
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- I have always liked theatre,00:02:01.017
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- cinema, pop culture, rock n roll etc...00:02:02.765
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- So, I tried to organize my exhibition in this way.00:02:06.982
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- But we can find here also serious references.00:02:09.865
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- I dedicated several works to Andy Warhol.00:02:12.830
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- This one is called "A Touch of Andy Warhol"00:02:17.510
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- and it is an autograph, a trivial wristband from Pohoda Festival.00:02:21.276
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- So I let it sign and my point is that00:02:27.094
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- when Lou Reed is on tour,00:02:31.801
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- he shakes hands with plenty of people every day00:02:34.187
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- and, of course, when in America he shakes hands with Andy Warhol.00:02:40.360
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- So this represents a sort of religious -rock and pop shifting00:02:45.397
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- into a kind of gallery display.00:02:49.545
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- This car model is a miniature of the one00:03:12.222
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- we can see outside in front of the museum.00:03:16.695
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- I have to admit that there have been00:03:20.418
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- plenty of art works dealing with cars.00:03:23.897
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- Some artists used to burn cars or demolish them;00:03:27.043
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- or even pressed some of them.00:03:31.647
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- I was, however, interested in that "hamburger" shape.00:03:34.522
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- One of the Warhol´s quotes says00:03:39.457
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- "Democracy is present where the Mc Donalds is present too..."00:03:41.360
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- So that is some kind of my reference.00:03:45.077
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- This one is inspired by Romani people way of housing00:03:49.759
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- where you have - a piece of blue metal sheet next to a piece of Bakelite00:03:52.890
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- following by a piece of car or roof...00:03:57.007
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- They create something useful00:04:00.069
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- where they can live, exist and survive.00:04:02.856
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- And as I, fortunately, have a place to live00:04:05.945
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- I create something useless:00:04:08.688
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- e.g. guitars.00:04:10.465
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- Luckily, that the period of forming Beatniks, Hippies,00:04:50.450
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- Big beat and Rock n roll but also punk and metal00:04:53.725
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- is still popular and present in Art work...00:04:58.138
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- and still will be...00:05:01.448
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- In my exhibition I focus also on the theatrical and scenic representation.00:05:03.853
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- I first created this jacket;00:05:08.800
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- however, when I was attaching the belts00:05:11.410
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- I found out it was too small for me.00:05:15.759
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- So I used this and when I had two jackets and shorts I added torches very easily.00:05:19.655
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- This was the last one, my favourite…00:05:35.324
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- don't know why probably because I have always00:05:43.313
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- hated the army00:05:46.513
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- and I was really proud to have a Blue Book (no military service).00:05:48.007
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- So it is a sort of nostalgia …00:05:51.956
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- no more communism anymore...00:05:54.670
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- that´s probably why I like this particular piece of art.00:05:57.751
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- Those are the things that can not really be explained in a logical and rational way.00:06:02.661
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- I made three jackets for this exhibition00:06:10.577
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- but maybe if the exhibition had been a month later00:06:13.084
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- I would have made more jackets00:06:16.050
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- and I would have worn another one today.00:06:18.513