Face To Face
The exhibition Face To Face was created without any complex intellectual calculuses. SPZ Gallery carries on with its project that an addressed artist invites a guest. Ondřej Brody – a husband of Jitka Mikulicová responded to her painting called Devil with his first sculpture marked on the wall by himself. Their common resignation to the concept and (un) adaptibility of the installation stress the work of Jitka Mikulicová as a specific and descriptive painting.
- I wouldn't talk about a concept, there isn't any.00:00:21.956
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- There are two things independent on each other,00:00:26.104
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- which are linked by a very banal theme of the eyes.00:00:29.380
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- It is even unnecessary to describe these things00:00:39.368
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- because they are self-descriptive.00:00:42.959
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- When you look at the exhibition, the space offers...00:00:47.740
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- it occurs to you that the things should be placed in front00:00:55.064
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- so that they are clearly visible. That's how installation proceeds:00:00:57.523
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- the artwork is always placed on the front wall.00:01:05.667
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- It is quite strange if you think of it.00:01:10.138
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- The lightning is also focused on the painting, the rest is the wall.00:01:13.506
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- We just wanted the wall and the eyes on it00:01:19.787
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- as some kind of Svankmajerian element. - Your eyes. - Yes, these were my eyes.00:01:25.088
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- When the exhibition space is closed and the people are passing by00:01:32.504
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- I like that there is a detail which is important but barely visible00:01:37.067
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- and the viewer doesn't see it. Let me repeat myself:00:01:46.622
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- we create these things in a very simple way00:01:53.113
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- and we don't try to complicate it by intellectual concepts.00:01:57.120
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- It's not that I avoid it but if it isn't directly connected00:02:02.743
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- to the origin of the work.... It comes from a very simple plan..00:02:07.048
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- - It refers to the work but also to us.. - Your painting is titled "Devil"00:02:11.927
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- and my thing is "Untitled". It should be the wall,00:02:19.157
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- a part of the wall, a sculptural element that becomes the wall.00:02:27.980