LADISLAV BABUŠČÁK
Ladislav Babuščák (*1985) je původem ze Slovenska, momentálně studuje pátým rokem fotografii na pražské FAMU.
- I studied graphics at the secondary school in Košice.00:00:19.287
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- I wanted to study under Šejn.00:00:24.754
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- He didn´t accept me,00:00:26.677
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- so I applied for the second time.00:00:28.464
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- During that year I dedicated mainly to do photography, and film photography.00:00:30.775
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- I didn´t care whether they would accept me or not.00:00:40.326
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- They accepted me to the Film School.00:00:43.396
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- I´ve never longed to be a photographer.00:00:46.516
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- For me it was interesting to discover why I used the camera.00:00:53.422
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- I was never good at drawing figures.00:01:05.772
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- I had some concentration problem.00:01:08.424
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- After 15 minutes of drawing, I would think about something else.00:01:11.813
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- That´s why I got into photohraphy00:01:14.503
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- because I knew how to express myself.00:01:16.673
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- It is the only possible way for me.00:01:20.915
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- I have always wanted to be a painter.00:01:25.489
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- I studied under Bohumil Prokůpek .00:01:32.866
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- He died last year.00:01:37.473
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- He was the most important person in my life.00:01:41.837
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- When I met him, I started to treat photography differently.00:01:47.026
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- I found my themes.00:01:50.066
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- He told me that there was nothing more important in art00:01:55.078
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- than sincerity.00:01:57.318
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- So that is why I found my themes quicker than the others.00:02:00.809
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- "Ocean Sea"00:02:07.486
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- This was the first thing that combinated photography and other medium.00:02:11.863
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- I came to the Film School as a non-photographer.00:02:19.678
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- I wanted to set myself apart from photography.00:02:22.372
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- I decided to illustrate one book00:02:24.831
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- that was at the time very important to me.00:02:26.422
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- It is called "Ocean Sea" by Alessandro Baricco.00:02:30.846
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- The main protagonist is a painter who all his life paints views on the sea.00:02:34.897
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- He paints it with the sea water.00:02:40.113
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- Since I had come to the Film School I was against strong visual information.00:02:42.287
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- I decided to use photography in the purest possible way,00:02:44.548
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- that is, by transcription.00:02:48.093
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- In my studio, with the help of all the lights,00:02:50.869
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- I took pictures of papers painted by the sea water.00:02:58.288
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- The paper represented the original for me.00:03:01.748
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- The aim of my work was to show the cause of the origin of photography,00:03:10.556
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- which is the necessity of reproduction.00:03:16.784
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- "Triptych"00:03:22.482
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- Once I was sitting in a café and I was reading a tabloid.00:03:26.187
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- There was an article about an Argentinian footballer00:03:30.870
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- who was injured during a match00:03:33.975
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- and was unconscious.00:03:36.380
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- It was a magical photo.00:03:37.807
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- It showed an anxious moment.00:03:39.596
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- Together with the information, it was really strong.00:03:41.601
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- However, the photo was not brutal.00:03:45.197
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- There was certain tenderness.00:03:48.173
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- I was shocked00:03:52.852
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- because I imagined the stadium with 200 000 people00:03:56.541
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- and football that is a very rough game.00:03:59.945
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- It was a kind of fight for life.00:04:02.319
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- I was concerned with the pressure of the situation.00:04:07.768
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- I was interested in the possibility of the change of feelings.00:04:14.852
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- This pictures inspired me,00:04:21.980
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- and I began to google and look for pictures with footballers.00:04:24.854
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- I started to get concerned with the composition, and the fact that00:04:31.639
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- that many pictures of footballers remind me of religious tableaux.00:04:35.284
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- Finally, I reduced it to the situation of physical contact00:04:40.753
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- where the footballers lost their consciousness00:04:48.713
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- and they look like some religious picture.00:04:53.461
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- It is about pure, manipulated, black and white picture.00:05:05.821
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- I looks like a graphic record.00:05:10.738
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- It denies space and function of photography.00:05:12.274
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- On the other side, it brings accuracy.00:05:15.197
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- In fact, it is the record of reality that is important.00:05:20.749
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- I combinated them with the texts of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.00:05:24.294
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- He tells stories about fatal relationships, and returns.00:05:32.566
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- I also have a fatal return.00:05:37.261
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- I go back again and again and this book is exactly about this.00:05:41.207
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- "Picture from Nice - various titles"00:05:47.236
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- This picture was taken in Nice. I was sitting there for four hours.00:05:54.032
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- It was multiplied 6 times,00:06:00.117
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- and I exhibited with different titles.00:06:07.266
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- I wanted to say that00:06:12.787
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- the picture doesn't need to show anything obvious or concrete00:06:16.449
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- and yet it can contain different meanings.00:06:25.569
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- For me, it has the voyeuristic moment.00:06:38.400
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- it also includes the contact with body, and00:06:43.715
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- reffering to Warhol, there is a touch of homoeroticism.00:06:47.707
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- I also have a series that are composed into the corner.00:07:07.886
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- The way of installation is at the same time an object of reflexion.00:07:11.245
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- It is not only the reflection00:07:20.541
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- between the works themselves, within the series,00:07:22.765
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- or in the reflection of time, which we intended to show.00:07:27.388
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- It si also the reflection may be predetermined by something that can´t be influenced.00:07:31.054
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- It means that if you put the photo into the corner00:07:38.847
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- the reflection is there whether you want or not.00:07:42.980
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- This is connected to James Dean,00:07:45.906
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- to the solution of the embodiment of the space between man and woman.00:07:47.853
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- "Spring Ordination"00:07:58.037
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- I suppressed visuality, and I liked minimalism.00:08:02.535
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- So I got to monochrome, even in photography.00:08:04.427
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- Photography is attractive because of its strong aesthetics or information.00:08:13.533
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- I wanted to trasform fine arts into photography.00:08:26.617
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- At the same time, it could be an illustration.00:08:45.320
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- It has its borders unlike visuality.00:08:53.377
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- It is a fight between a text and a picture.00:09:00.801
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- Sometimes I have an urgent need to write.00:09:03.494
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- At other times I need to take a picture.00:09:10.027
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- I think it is still the same process of creation.00:09:18.588
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- It is interesting to observe00:09:26.693
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- how you can get to it through a text or trough a picture or a gesture.00:09:29.402
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- I love religious art and old art,00:10:03.573
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- such as Giotto, byzantine mosaics, and Michelangelo.00:10:06.257
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- Because I strongly believe in the God00:10:12.014
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- it is very important for me to connect art with religion.00:10:15.289
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- I think my highest goal is to create good religious art.00:10:22.378
fajno:díky!
Ladiku, vyborne! to zanietnie sa mi paci! len sa toho drz. k „hodnotnemu serioznemu nabozenskemu umeniu“ sa pridavam, doma nas caka vela prace!
No chlapci, budete mat co robyt! Maros Rovnak to uz rostocil :)
Vyborne Laci(Egon):) len tak dalej ,nech sa Ti dari. Nech robis co Ta bavi.