Patricie Fexová
Zvláštní. Pokaždé, když se prosadí nějaká revoluční strategie, začne generovat svůj dialektický protějšek. A ten se chce přirozeně prosadit jako – hádáte správně – revoluční strategie. Když se tedy konceptualismus stal alfa stylem a postoje formou, formalismu se naskytla příležitost získat hloubku obsahu. Od jisté chvíle platí v uměleckém světě jednoduchá rovnice: zvolit formu rovná se vyjádřit postoj.
V tomto dialektickém běsnění (byť se občas nelze ubránit podezření, že jde spíš o eristickou dialektiku) tvoří tvorba Patricie Fexové paralelní topos, cosi jako Švýcarsko.
Formálně se pohybuje na hraně a někdy i za hranou akademického kýče, ale není v tom žádné kverulanství „posledních spravedlivých“ ani rekreační uživatelství postmoderny (ono příslovečné „mám to pod kontrolou“). Patricie prostě jen ráda maluje podle modelu a náměty pro své obrazy si vybírá taky spíš intuitivně. Například jeden z lokálních kánonů, Portrét Billa Gatese – klasicky pojatý mužský akt v idealizované krajině, s rukama za hlavou a erekcí jako atributy dominance, si ve skutečnosti nikdo neobjednal.
Místo inovace a originality autorského rukopisu klade důraz na dokonalé řemeslné zpracování, navíc často tvoří v sériiích. Námět pak v tomto kontextu funguje jako pointa vtipu, obrazová hříčka. Drobným loveckým zátiším zpodobňujícím mutanty, které umělkyně vlastnoručně ulovila v počítačových hrách, věnuje péči, jako by šlo o voluty v Národním (Mrtvá monstra, 2002-4).
Paradox krátkého spojení mezi předmoderní estetikou a realitou digitálních technologií těží z nejdokonalejšího výdobytku avantgardy – zkratky.
To platí i pro série počítačově upravovaných krajin. V Českých bunkrech (2001) i australských scenériích (Prehistorická zákoutí) chybí jakékoliv připomínky civilizace. Budí dojem absolutního bezčasí, jakoby na počátku či na konci dějin, ale přesto je nám daná scenérie povědomá – z galerií a knih o dějinách umění. Ostatně bunkry jsou z kantovské definice samy o sobě uměleckými díly – krásné bez účelu.
Tím je od jisté chvíle i výsostné téma Fexové – cédéčko. Formální rozptyl sahá od malířských studií figury v pohybu, novodobých diskobolek (Kompaktní diskařky, 2004), po abstraktní malby-instalace, kde disky slouží jako materiál díla. Stěžejní je nicméně cyklus monumentálních portrétů samotných nosičů (Data Painting, přičemž jednotlivé obrazy přebírají název datové stopy předlohy). Iluzívní a zároveň abstraktní zobrazení duhových odlesků i kruhový formát pláten činí ze série brilantní ukázku „obchvatu“ překážky rozumu.
Na ni záhy navázala formátově příbuznými obrazy duhovek – i ony představují spíš do sebe uzavřený obvod než circus mundi. Téma zastarávání futuristické obrazotvornosti rozvíjí v dílech inspirovaných sondou Pioneer vyslanou do vesmíru, aby obtěžovala mimozemské civilizace za účelem seznámení. Její součástí byla poněkud schematická podobenka zástupců lidského rodu a mapa sluneční soustavy. Bylo to v roce 1973, to se ještě na intergalaktická přátelství pohlíželo optimisticky. Patricie mezi lety 2010-11 vytvořila dva lidské skafandry – pro Něj a pro Ni – čímž zároveň definitivně vyřešila esenciální problém malířství – absenci třetí dimenze.
Formální experiment je dotažený ad absurdum, takže autorským rukopisem se stává samotná absence rukopisu a výtvarná technika se mění v techniku vtipu (zhuštění, přesun a nepřímé znázornění, znázornění opakem, nebo podobností či příbuzností). V tomto duchu se nesou i nejnovější práce Fexové, Abstraktní komiks a Autoportréty. Jsou to v zásadě karteziánské obrazy – a la these. Nejsou přímým komentářem k současné podobě světa, ale mohou ovlivnit optiku nazírání, jako vedlejší efekt. Ukazuje překvapivou životaschopnost obrozenecké struktury uměleckých institucí i v éře proměnlivosti elektronických a informatických systémů.
A také potřebu revize řady ustálených pojmů, včetně akademického kýče.
Michaela Ivaniškinová
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- it's an air conditioning,00:00:22.819
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- but everyone who came, laughed and said00:00:24.484
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- I finally had a disk drive for my CDs.00:00:27.485
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- It's everywhere in the house,00:00:32.241
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- it's a listed building.00:00:33.671
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- Originally there was twenty-two of them, now it's less.00:00:43.704
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- I wanted to make big series,00:00:49.632
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- so that it appears there are many of them,00:00:51.819
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- but I work slowly and00:00:57.382
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- when it takes you two years,00:00:59.028
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- you get pretty tired of it.00:01:01.463
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- But I think there's a lot of them and it's enough.00:01:03.363
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- My intention was to paint invisible data,00:01:12.883
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- an admittedly absurd painting attempt or00:01:17.107
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- a play with illusiveness and what can or can't be painted.00:01:24.211
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- I can only indicate the information00:01:32.283
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- by writing what's been burned on it,00:01:35.698
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- but it's of course ridiculous because data is invisible.00:01:38.247
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- I named each CD after the one I had used as a model.00:01:41.928
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- Cds have always crossed my mind,00:01:49.017
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- when I have something often in my hands,00:01:52.477
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- another ideas what to do with it occur to me00:01:55.556
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- and then it may appear as00:01:58.088
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- a kind of obsession. But it's over now.00:01:59.783
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- I guess it naturally changed over to people,00:02:07.180
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- which was another painting series00:02:12.894
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- following up to the CD one,00:02:15.347
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- it was called Irides.00:02:17.279
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- Iris is the same shape as CD00:02:19.475
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- and that's how I got to it.00:02:21.639
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- It was a portrait of a human eye.00:02:24.800
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- When I was taking photographs of irides,00:02:28.548
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- I had to deal with reflections.00:02:31.517
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- The person was lying on the ground00:02:33.771
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- and I was above him trying to00:02:36.969
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- catch his eye he had to keep open00:02:39.563
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- so that the full iris was visible,00:02:42.674
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- as it's not usually visible completely00:02:44.528
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- unless you open it like that00:02:47.032
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- which is pretty uncomfortable00:02:49.940
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- and the photos look a bit scary,00:02:52.726
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- but it was fun.00:02:54.981
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- It's a carefully prepared illusional model.00:02:58.044
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- I'm not interested in an illusional painting,00:03:01.948
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- but how the illusion appears in the painting00:03:05.012
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- and I want the painting to be true to life.00:03:07.993
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- But I create it there again and the illusion00:03:13.909
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- you see there, is the one you project yourself.00:03:17.098
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- So everyone links it in his head and00:03:21.374
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- there is no need to stick00:03:25.103
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- to models and paint clearly.00:03:27.854
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- The only pair I made was especially for Karel Císař.00:03:32.233
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- It fitted into his exhibition he had made twice,00:03:37.400
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- for the first one I made two Suns,00:03:44.188
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- so he wanted another pair.00:03:47.250
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- He found weird I was working on one iris only,00:03:50.892
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- but I didn't find it peculiar as00:03:54.517
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- I switched to it from the data CDs,00:03:56.650
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- I regarded it rather as a database00:04:00.647
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- and making two had never crossed my mind.00:04:04.021
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- When you make two irides it's a portrait,00:04:07.498
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- if you place them to a specific distance,00:04:10.537
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- it looks like an immensely enlarged person and00:04:12.828
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- that appeared weird to me...00:04:16.949
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- It's a bit improvised here, of course,00:04:27.996
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- but I presented them hanged like that00:04:29.966
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- and I visualized them like space suits00:04:32.416
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- people can get into.00:04:35.329
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- But ideally they could look at them00:04:37.099
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- from behind and all sides.00:04:40.970
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- I can show you, there's a zip00:04:45.220
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- which goes up there through the hair...00:04:51.478
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- There's a zip in the back as well.00:04:59.887
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- The heads can be seen only if someone wears it.00:05:04.658
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- It's made by real people whom it fitted.00:05:08.968
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- One of them is my sister and the other one is my friend.00:05:15.917
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- I co-operated with Sisters Conspiracy00:05:18.971
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- designers who realized my designs.00:05:22.052
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- So the models came to fittings.00:05:25.136
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- It was quite a long process00:05:28.028
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- it took a lot of time all the fittings...00:05:30.102
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- I think there were several fittings,00:05:32.761
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- we would refashion it00:05:34.329
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- to find the degree of stylization,00:05:35.894
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- to what extent it should be simplified or descriptive.00:05:38.521
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- It had to fit well so that they could sit or lie down...00:05:43.497
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- Yeah, it was limited by the movement as well...00:05:46.557
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- We needed the man's pattern to00:05:50.210
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- be different from the woman's.00:05:51.857
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- At the woman's pattern we dealt with00:05:53.515
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- the hair I wanted there and the way00:05:55.516
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- it's going to be fastened.00:05:58.553
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- At the man's pattern we dealt with the privates,00:06:00.159
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- I didn't like the idea of just painting it there.00:06:02.973
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- Before I started painting it00:06:08.423
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- I'd already had the idea how to do it.00:06:12.106
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- All the fittings were finished00:06:15.191
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- and I had the testing patterns00:06:17.686
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- I've just showed you,00:06:21.606
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- then I got them made from paper00:06:24.637
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- and I stretched them on a frame00:06:27.347
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- just from practical reasons.00:06:29.695
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- I didn't plan them to be interesting paintings,00:06:33.271
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- it somehow turned out later,00:06:38.562
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- especially one of them which was symmetrically spread out00:06:40.669
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- and it generally looked well.00:06:43.464
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- Finally it was on three frames00:06:46.622
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- and when I realized it looked like an interesting painting,00:06:48.978
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- I decided to leave it there00:06:51.807
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- and I bought another one which had its own frame.00:06:53.428
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- So I kept the paintings for some time and00:07:00.758
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- I displayed them as a work in progress00:07:05.012
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- in the Ferdinand Baumann Gallery,00:07:09.908
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- there are display windows in an arcade,00:07:11.541
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- where the paintings looked pretty well.00:07:14.049
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- There are other windows where00:07:16.928
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- I displayed photos from the fittings.00:07:19.100
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- So the viewers could see it was a pattern00:07:22.218
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- and realize it was going to be sewn.00:07:24.820
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- There was also a plaque which was my inspirational source.00:07:28.012
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- It's a plaque traveling on two probes launched in 1970s,00:07:33.822
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- Carl Sagan came up with the idea00:07:41.120
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- and his wife Linda made the drawing after his design.00:07:47.232
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- The plaque was prepared quite hastily00:07:51.971
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- as it was just an additional idea.00:07:57.254
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- The idea was to send it in case someone found it,00:08:00.852
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- so it would be a kind of visiting card00:08:05.854
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- to see where it came from.00:08:08.014
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- I think many people today may find it naive00:08:10.298
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- but I have always liked it,00:08:13.692
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- I've been familiar with it since my childhood00:08:15.545
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- and I liked this auto ref of humankind00:08:18.380
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- sending such visiting card.00:08:22.205
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- The name of the series is Abstract Comic.00:08:35.466
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- I started working on it after the Irides,00:08:38.706
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- simultaneously with the Space Suits,00:08:43.023
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- as their preparation didn't take me much time.00:08:45.454
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- I became somehow insecure about what to do and00:08:49.303
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- the idea to make an abstract series crossed my mind00:08:54.373
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- as I wanted to try to paint spontaneously00:09:03.850
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- and react to what emerges there,00:09:09.002
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- which is quite unusual of me00:09:11.324
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- as I always use some model.00:09:13.953
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- It's got a theme and there are simple compositional tricks,00:09:16.804
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- either formal or compositional.00:09:20.963
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- This is a diptych, the theme is painting,00:09:27.110
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- the hand is holding part of the painting00:09:33.238
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- and it can be both added or taken away,00:09:36.845
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- it's based on this painting arbitrariness.00:09:39.621
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- Then I made another version,00:09:44.155
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- where I used black instead of white.00:09:46.368
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- I like straightforwardness, when it's almost like a joke.00:09:48.737
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- I enjoy it from time to time.00:09:53.500
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- It's strokes with paintbrush, a painting about painting.00:09:56.981
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- I stressed things that usually appear accidentally,00:10:00.004
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- but I installed them in there artificially.00:10:04.006
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- When you place splash of colours00:10:10.067
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- or brush strokes next to each other00:10:12.038
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- you can watch their aesthetics.00:10:15.547
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- I don't know if we can call00:10:19.979
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- any of them abstract,00:10:22.030
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- it depends on perception of the term abstraction.00:10:24.092
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- I went back to models and00:10:31.531
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- realistic depiction of real things,00:10:34.744
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- but I wanted to work with abstract painting features00:10:38.408
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- and deal just with their aesthetic effect00:10:45.271
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- so that they are abstractions in detail.00:10:49.029
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- There are sixteen of them,00:10:53.311
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- I had them together with the object00:10:56.923
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- at an exhibition in Zlín,00:10:59.609
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- but it doesn't go together.00:11:02.191
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- A long time ago I came up with00:11:05.290
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- an object I called The Non-Mirror.00:11:09.236
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- It's an attempt to create a mirror00:11:14.737
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- which doesn't reverse specularly.00:11:17.726
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- It's a model which doesn't show specularly,00:11:20.879
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- you can read what is on your T-shirt,00:11:26.163
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- but the paintings are made the other way round.00:11:29.753
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- They are specularly inversed and that's00:11:32.142
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- why they are called Self-portraits.00:11:34.305
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- They are mirror reflections.00:11:36.323
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- It's not a bit difference,00:11:41.540
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- people can see the resemblance but00:11:43.436
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- they don't notice the specular inversion.00:11:45.867
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- I wanted to go against perceiving00:11:49.803
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- the paintings as portraits,00:11:52.688
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- I repressed some things intentionally.00:11:56.254
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- These are not eyes but dark stains...00:11:58.848
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- But you automatically regard them as portraits,00:12:08.608
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- even though there is almost nothing.00:12:11.870
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- When you see them filled with splashes of colour,00:12:14.688
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- however abstract I made them,00:12:17.741
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- when it's all painted over00:12:21.190
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- they look like realist portraits.00:12:24.517
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- This is the present boss00:12:29.660
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- and this is my colleague Matouš, a graphic artist,00:12:33.547
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- this is Věra, the editor,00:12:37.358
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- my colleague Květa, the editors' assistant,00:12:42.617
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- this is the former boss Renata,00:12:47.909
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- Dan Vlček, who had the work before me,00:12:52.799
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- he passed the job on me, when he'd decided to quit,00:12:56.110
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- and this is Ivan Adamovič,00:13:03.289
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- who worked here for some time as an editor.00:13:04.948
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- And the editor Jiří Zbořil.00:13:16.517
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- The people almost doubled00:13:19.446
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- as some of them left and new arrived.00:13:22.225
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- When painting them it hasn't much00:13:26.600
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- to do with them any more.00:13:29.819
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- Of course I do think about them00:13:31.995
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- when I see their photo,00:13:34.246
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- but the biggest interaction is00:13:36.423
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- asking them to be photographed for a portrait.00:13:39.187
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- When they agree, I bring my camera,00:13:43.205
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- we go to the atrium where is daylight00:13:45.927
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- and there I take picture of them.00:13:49.364
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- I hope you have made sense of what00:13:56.379
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- I mean by saying impersonal,00:13:59.326
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- that I deal with the splashes of colour.00:14:01.192
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- It's an ordinary painting principle,00:14:10.137
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- but a bit analyzed.00:14:14.450