Toto je Mr. BRA
Mr. BRA (*2000, Bratislava) je slovenský umelec s hybridnou identitou, programovo sa zaoberajúci výskumom fungovania súčasného umenia a trhu s umením, kultúrnymi inštitúciami, identitou umelca, či vzťahom umelca a spoločnosti.
- About the exhibition "This is Mr.Bra"....00:00:07.821
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- It all started when Fajka Gallery asked us to have a show00:00:11.414
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- with a low budget that's why we are presenting projects00:00:17.040
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- that were already ready, the only thing we produced for the show00:00:20.872
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- was a big-format print. Everything started a long time ago00:00:25.513
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- when Soros Foundation was still functioning.00:00:32.221
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- At their last annual show, we decided with Richard Fajnor00:00:36.421
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- to start an art group named Mr. Bra and even the first project00:00:41.508
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- was called Bra. It was our project but we decided to get rid of00:00:45.898
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- our identities and all the projects present00:00:54.626
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- a virtual artist who would produce these objects.00:00:58.600
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- Related to this is one of the more radical projects:00:01:03.901
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- a video recording made for Studio Trisorio in Rome.00:01:11.053
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- We had pieces of our skin taken that were then medically processed00:01:15.346
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- so that it became our common skin that we then put in the interior of00:01:23.686
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- the gallery so that the spectator entered the identity00:01:31.601
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- of another fictional character.00:01:34.917
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- This work in particular is actually a very simple structure,00:01:41.202
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- a list of authorial acts or gestures that are usually00:01:47.949
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- used in contemporary art and it is partly an open00:01:56.061
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- installation: whoever can for example use the background00:02:04.422
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- and take pictures of an artefact or a gesture00:02:12.247
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- and next to it is an installation, a record of00:02:17.137
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- artefacts or gestures - object gestures00:02:21.833
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- that at the moment when this installation was being made00:02:26.772
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- were fundamental for the creation of a complete statement.00:02:30.482
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- There are other three projects in the exhibition,00:02:42.745
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- a fragment from the Prague Biennale, I don't know the year,00:02:47.936
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- where, in the context of particular tendencies in painting,00:02:53.519
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- we had someone else make special white and black color00:02:59.093
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- and the result was an installation but it was not successful00:03:02.483
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- because the organizers thought they could pour out the color00:03:07.182
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- so the whole thing was destroyed.00:03:09.840
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- There is only an extra box with samples of the colors.00:03:11.419
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- A year later, at another biennale - in Prague there are00:03:16.478
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- two biennales - so we were at Knížák's biennale.00:03:21.211
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- We did a performance which was about our impression00:03:25.076
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- that visual art receives no recognition apart from00:03:28.656
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- the fact that it is put on display. So this gesture of clapping -00:03:33.391
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- the intensity of clapping depended on the quality of the work -00:03:39.842
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- so we clapped before all the works included in the biennale00:03:44.394
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- which lasted for three days.00:03:46.578
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- There is a selection of our exhibition activities00:03:50.975
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- the first photograph is from the first Soros exhibition and00:03:55.715
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- the last photograph was taken at this exhibition.00:04:01.400
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- So there is a time tunnel with a sedimentary deposit.00:04:05.095