The Last Atlantean
“Radim Langer’s exhibition entitled The Last Atlantean contemplates negation and decay and their relation to artistic work. Matter disintegrates and the same applies to art. Surface of any painting is devastated by chemical reactions, the author’s original intention gets destroyed.”
Tereza Stejskalová
- We could have thought of something different00:00:00.850
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- if we had more time. To disrupt it somehow, we would have to00:00:03.371
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- Radim Langer: THE LAST MAN FROM ATLANTIS Curated by Tereza Stejskalová00:00:10.073
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- - I just feel it is so neat and geometrical...00:00:13.935
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- The concept of the exhibition emerged from my thinking00:00:18.624
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- about art as such, as an utopia of creating artefacts00:00:26.646
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- in the material world. The work comes from the idea of denying the image.00:00:33.359
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- But at the same time I am trying to search for00:00:40.864
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- a new function of the image. This exhibition results from my diploma work00:00:43.898
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- that was related to the production of industrial machines00:00:50.736
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- and the representation of the materiality of the artefact.00:00:55.444
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- I tried putting the painting askew up there...00:01:00.760
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- Yes, if it was hung askew, it would be too playful, this looks classic..00:01:05.184
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- I focus on the image of trash until the representation and the materiality00:01:11.978
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- can no longer be distinguished. I use metal powder that dissolves00:01:17.324
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- any objecthood. Negation and violation of the classical forms00:01:26.753
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- play an important role in the process of production itself.00:01:35.847
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- It negates what it is. There are two hands here. One is over there.00:01:41.078
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- It is decaying but still mimetic. It represents the idea00:01:55.564
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- of the decay of the thing. In the end, the exhibition becomes00:02:03.330
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- the image of deconstruction that in itself is already a new construction,00:02:08.274
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- a new artefact, a new way how to deal with and overcome these issues.00:02:12.457
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