Pavel Hayek – Otto Zitko – Richard Healy – Jiří Maha – Richard Nikl
This joint exhibition by the artists Otto Zitko (b. 1959, resident in Vienna) and Pavel Hayek (b.1959, resident in Brno), set up by the Brno gallery owner Karel Tutsche will present two artistic positions which differ but are at the same time complementary. The link between them is not a demonstrative expression of the monarchist relationship of Brno to Vienna; Pavel Hayek invited Zitko as a creative kindred spirit. The compositions in Hayek’s pictures are only compositions to the same extent that Zitko’s gesture is a true gesture. In this context Barbara Steiner talks of Zitko’s compound gesture and Jiří Valoch about Hayek’s composition-free pictures – structures sui generis. This structural aspect is the great connection between the two artistic approaches. Zitko’s endless line overgrowing the pictures and interior walls of the House of Arts, and Hayek’s floorplan-specific structures which are “themselves” placed into the position of a design.
- I was thinking about the relation of these two authors´ works.00:00:09.442
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- I think everybody comes upon an idea that00:00:20.699
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- both authors share similar00:00:24.628
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- structuralist understanding of space and light.00:00:27.688
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- I do not want to typecast this exhibition,00:00:38.063
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- but I think that when reading this exhibition00:00:41.721
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- we can first start with spatious reading,00:00:47.549
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- which is very important, and especially in this architecture.00:00:51.821
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- I think this space absolutely fits both authors in the sense that00:01:01.299
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- these paintings are not perceived individually00:01:06.924
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- but as a whole installation, spatious correlation.00:01:10.733
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- They created here an inner world,00:01:18.463
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- when you enter this room,00:01:20.848
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- you would also find relation to the outer world.00:01:23.213
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- But simultaneously, the organization of the world is different,00:01:27.213
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- actually, it is idealized.00:01:30.752
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- I think it can be read from the manner00:01:36.834
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- of the central composition of the whole exhibition.00:01:39.730
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- Also the handling of the painting is very important to me,00:01:43.118
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- which is, on the contrary, very modernist.00:01:47.379
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- The doubt is postponed and00:01:52.054
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- the painting looks clear.00:01:54.819
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- Factually, it is classically installed.00:01:58.621
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- The style of their work is interesting because00:02:00.923
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- they work with the paintings as with surface,00:02:04.121
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- which is in contrast with the detailed drawing on it.00:02:07.940
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- Finally, the paintings steal the drawings.00:02:14.045
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- I think the space is also important for the artists here, in Královka,00:02:18.741
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- where we can observe a kind of a new wave of minimalist dealing00:02:30.807
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- with objects, videos, or other media, and00:02:36.311
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- it is the point where those exhibitions got interconnected.00:02:51.688
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- I won´t speak any longer.00:02:55.373
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- I would like you to feel free00:02:58.430
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- and ask the authors in case you would like to know more.00:03:01.329
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- Shall I give a word to the authors?00:03:04.746
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- Thank you very much for your attention.00:03:08.465