Cena Oskára Čepana 2013
Nadácia Centrum súčasného umenia vyhlásila v apríli 18.ročník prestížneho ocenenia slovenského vizuálneho umelca/umelkyne do 35 rokov Cena Oskára Čepana 2013. Medzinárodná odborná komisia rozhodla o štyroch finalistoch súťaže, ktorými sú: Radovan Čerevka (1980), Erik Sikora (1986), Martin Vongrej (1986), Zuzana Žabková (1987).
Cena je udeľovaná za pozoruhodný umelecký prejav, osobitý vizuálny jazyk, svojskú výpoveď a relevantný odkaz v kontexte súčasného slovenského umenia. Zámerom súťaže je podpora kvalitných mladých umelcov v ich tvorivom vývoji, s tým spojená dynamizácia súčasnej slovenskej výtvarnej scény, ako aj prezentácia umenia mladých tvorcov nielen na domácej, ale aj zahraničnej pôde.
- I guess I'm not responsible for the jury's choice as an individual...00:00:00.951
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- However we selected and decided all the finalists together.00:00:06.397
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- We tried to choose artists who really appealed to us00:00:16.206
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- while presenting their portfolios...00:00:21.899
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- Zuzana Žabková was new to me, I hadn't known her before00:00:25.404
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- and I was captured by the work presented in her portfolio.00:00:30.931
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- I had a certain concern it might be based on the contemporary trendy way of work00:00:37.193
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- referring to modernism, theatre, dance and other performative forms00:00:45.985
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- in media reincarnation, so I was a bit worried,00:00:54.446
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- but it also appeared important to us that someone in Slovakia deals with it00:00:59.520
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- in a purposeful way and not just superficially...00:01:05.440
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- We suspected that Zuzana Žabková's systematic reference system00:01:10.676
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- was just based on a certain arbitrariness, we spoke about it00:01:17.013
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- and I called it "heading for ornament".00:01:24.582
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- Although it has a fixed rational plan, it results rather in an aesthetic whole00:01:27.898
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- which has all the layers, but they aren't sufficiently embodied into the work.00:01:36.685
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- For contemporary artists it would be problematic00:01:45.150
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- as they have to mention all the references in the report.00:01:47.997
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- All the references to modernism, personalities, choreography design etc.00:01:52.406
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- We selected Martin Vongrej with the knowledge of something imperceptible,00:02:02.538
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- his mysterious work is linked with a subjective mental space he deals with00:02:11.351
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- and which always prolapses in his installations...00:02:23.719
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- We find this method fascinating, although the viewers may often feel it far away.00:02:29.045
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- But experiencing something you can't get to the root of00:02:38.097
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- is an inspiring intellectual experience.00:02:46.078
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- His presentation doesn't embrace the way of his thinking00:02:52.736
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- with all the layers and diversifications.00:03:01.260
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- We consider it quite disadvantageous as there are many viewers who00:03:08.158
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- don't know Martin and his preceding work.00:03:15.381
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- Radovan has been a significant part of the art platform for a very long time,00:03:31.965
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- which was an important consideration for us.00:03:40.461
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- We wanted to take note of the fact00:03:44.583
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- we regard his work as complex and systematic.00:03:47.304
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- As for the exhibition we were quite sad00:03:52.699
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- because nobody was a hundred per cent successful00:03:56.831
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- and this also goes for the winner whose work we previously considered00:04:01.217
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- methodological as it pointed out phenomenons of media representation00:04:05.689
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- of certain features but it recently gained a controversial touch00:04:14.088
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- as if he started to express almost infantile fascination.00:04:23.146
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- I don't want to trivialize it but we could notice it00:04:33.351
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- at his recent work and I feel it didn't prove true00:04:37.655
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- in this case and his presentation is very dissociated and goes back to something00:04:41.382
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- Radovan has already rooted and we know he's capable of it.00:04:47.330
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- There still isn't much work by Erik Sikora, however we find his work stratified,00:04:54.721
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- not just funny and popular. It is inspiring as a research00:04:59.235
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- into basic principles of human creativity.00:05:04.812
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- I think he aims for a synthetic way of balancing contrasts00:05:11.600
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- such as banality, ordinariness and kitsch with seriousness, philosophy and pop,00:05:22.161
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- but at the same his work deals with important issues.00:05:29.926
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- As I already told him, I don't think he tried his best here as for the stratification00:05:35.122
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- and I guess his work may appear too funny as it refers00:05:46.517
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- to life and institutions too much, which is derogative00:05:51.181
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- and makes it impossible to catch on the other levels.00:05:54.936
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- I collected the most elegant stones from the lake00:06:01.684
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- and the whole summer I would take them on trips00:06:06.499
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- to different watersides and streams where00:06:09.266
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- I arranged them and took pictures of them...00:06:12.682
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- We were quite confused about the exhibition but we wanted to present the award00:06:16.032
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- and the jury repeatedly voted for two of the candidates,00:06:23.542
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- Radovan and Erik, and in the end we went for Radovan...00:06:30.942
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- In our statement we mentioned qualities such as systematic and00:06:35.521
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- long-lasting presence at the art platform...00:06:43.603