It is red and it does not move
The relation towards reality is constantly changing under the influence of new technologies and manufacturing processes. As an answer to these new inventions of the high-tech culture can be searching for the simplicity and reduction to the elementary basis, rediscovering of the forgotten, working with history or the combination of traditional processes and materials. Presented authors all consider Art as a creative game whose strong point is that through different visual forms of looking at the reality it opens the door for new ways of discovering the world and thinking about it.
- This exhibition is about reality and00:00:00.574
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- how the reality is understood by the chosen artists00:00:03.312
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- and how they play with it.00:00:07.299
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- The exhibiting artists are from Hungary Austria, Czech Republic and Germany.00:00:10.310
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- The title itself is really playful00:00:16.130
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- as I wanted to make and set up an exhibition00:00:19.293
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- where playfulness and creativity would be dominant.00:00:22.229
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- Adam Kokesch is a visual artist living and working in Budapest.00:00:27.138
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- We have chosen three of his works for this exhibition.00:00:33.151
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- Two of them were created during his resident stay00:00:37.902
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- at "cultural centre banska station" in Banská Štiavnica.00:00:41.282
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- Adam works with objects and statues00:00:44.910
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- and also with the issue of how the meaning is created in visual culture00:00:49.974
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- and how people associate some function to the objects.00:00:58.117
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- The result of his work00:01:03.143
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- are very interesting objects that remind us something,00:01:04.693
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- something that is encrypted in our visual memory.00:01:07.994
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- He uses waste materials and found items.00:01:11.489
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- His works presented here also refers to Bauhaus and neoconstructivism.00:01:14.737
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- The next author is00:01:31.037
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- an Austrian video artist and photographer Nina Rike Springer.00:01:32.813
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- She focuses on the performative photography00:01:36.778
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- and she is the only representative of figurative creation in this exhibition.00:01:40.917
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- Her pictures depict human bodies00:01:46.926
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- organized into interesting figurative still-lives00:01:49.741
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- which slightly remind us of Oskar Schlemmer´s avant-garde works.00:01:54.769
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- Nina works with different symbols00:02:00.384
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- and she puts an emphasis on the colourful composition00:02:02.377
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- and on the performative element in her creation.00:02:05.166
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- The Czech performer Alica Nikitinová00:02:07.623
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- is an author who focuses very directly on everyday banalities00:02:09.759
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- and on the world of objects that surrounds us.00:02:17.625
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- Among these casual objects are for example00:02:22.976
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- jogging pants00:02:25.910
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- or an umbrella handle00:02:27.089
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- or a beetroot.00:02:28.500
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- She is very close to the constructivists such as00:02:31.014
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- Kazimir Malevic or the group The Still.00:02:34.369
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- A young German photographer Samuel Henne00:02:37.333
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- presents here his series "Something specific about everything."00:02:40.809
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- It is a sequence of coloured photographs00:02:46.230
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- where everyday objects are organized into00:02:48.239
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- small sculptures or still-lives.00:02:51.286
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- The result of this creative procedure00:02:54.122
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- are very surprising compositions00:02:56.485
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- which carry signs of Dadaism, New realism.00:02:58.588
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- As it is an international exhibition,00:03:01.629
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- the exhibiting authors are from abroad,00:03:03.212
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- three out of four expose in Slovakia for the first time.00:03:06.097
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- The reason why I have chosen these foreign authors00:03:10.431
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- is that I think they use different kind of aesthetics00:03:13.356
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- and they look at the visual art in a different way00:03:16.354
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- in comparison to many Slovak artists.00:03:19.382
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- So I put emphasis on the confrontation with the Slovak visual scene00:03:22.274
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- so that Slovak artists could00:03:26.857
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- observe some new approaches, new aesthetics.00:03:30.025
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- I am interested in how historical genres00:03:36.034
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- are reflected in contemporary visual art00:03:38.444
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- and my original idea was to make an exhibition about still-life.00:03:41.127
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- However, the result was far away from the original plan00:03:45.671
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- but we can still find here some reference to the still-life00:03:49.046
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- as for instance in the sequences of Samuel Henne00:03:51.625
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- or in the photographs of Nina Rike Springer.00:03:54.290
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- This was also an object of my interest.00:03:57.006
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