Wassily – I hate your pretty curves
- The Wassily exhibition shows the newest work,00:00:05.481
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- created in the last three months.00:00:09.637
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- The artworks draw from some of the older pieces,00:00:21.615
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- created as paintings, which I haven’t shown.00:00:25.691
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- Meanwhile, I have produced other pieces00:00:30.056
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- working with the attributes of spatial installation,00:00:34.277
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- but also with objects and other media.00:00:38.339
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- So, it’s a kind of a return to the painting.00:00:42.776
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- You can find here references to modernity00:00:46.856
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- and modern ideas, which serve me00:00:50.982
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- as a means of defining the starting points00:00:55.288
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- of my own art production.00:00:59.535
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- The most extensive piece in the exhibition00:01:03.620
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- is a series entitled Bau,00:01:07.811
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- which is derived from the name of the famous school of Bauhaus.00:01:11.868
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- And it actually refers to some of the principles00:01:15.974
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- or understanding of a painting as an edifice00:01:20.072
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- and a technical process.00:01:24.325
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- It means that the individual paintings00:01:28.525
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- are deconstructed into their basic elements.00:01:32.665
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- So the canvas, gesso and painting are considered as equal components00:01:36.987
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- and using a simple geometric order,00:01:45.794
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- the structures captured by the paintings are created.00:01:50.064
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- Along with the series of paintings,00:01:54.486
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- there are two objects entitled Wassily00:01:59.125
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- that are inspired by the techniques of modernist design00:02:03.469
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- and the tubular furniture.00:02:07.861
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- These formerly utilitarian objects have been transformed00:02:11.613
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- into new objects of no practical purpose00:02:15.836
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- and thus gain a new role.00:02:19.968
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- What you can find there, is a search of the past00:02:23.871
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- for the starting points and influences.00:02:28.076
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- I guess they used to be latent in my work00:02:32.280
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- and now I have tried to reflect on them00:02:36.456
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- and work with them consciously.00:02:40.727
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- The whole process has thus been further conceptualized.00:02:44.883
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- It may show an experience with drawing00:02:53.753
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- since I had been drawing more than painting00:02:57.933
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- and it has somehow infused the way one understands the painting.00:03:02.124
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- Because the underlying material, like paper in the case of drawing,00:03:06.207
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- finds itself to be an important part of the final outcome,00:03:10.414
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- since it is not wholly covered and plays an important role in the painting.00:03:14.668