VÁCLAV ŠPÁLA GALLERY IN PRAGUE, OPENING OF VLADIMÍR SKREPL’S AND MÍLA PRESLOVÁ’S EXHIBITION
This video captures the ambience at the opening of an exhibition in one of the most important Czech galleries of its time. Shots of the gallery’s exterior, i.e. of Národní třída, alternate with information about Skrepl’s exhibition, fragments of the opening speech, and a performance by the Dependent Dance Company of Petr Záveský.
The video ends with banal dialogues taking place at the end of the opening in an almost empty gallery.
Gallery curator Jaroslav Krbůšek opened Vladimír Skrepl’s exhibition. Jana Ševčíková from the Art Academy (AVU) spoke about Míla Preslová’s exhibition “Housewife,” held in the basement of the gallery Malá Špálovka. The video features, among others, artists Josef Bolf, Jiří Černický, Tomáš Císařovský, Martin Dostál, Pavla Gajdošíková, Anežka Hošková, Mário Chromý, Vilém Kabzan, Jiří Kovanda, Jarmila Kovandová, Alena Kotzmannová, Václav Magid, Jiří Matějů, Milan Mikuláštík, Jan Mucska, Míla Preslová, Petr Romanov, Markéta Vaňková, Jiří Ševčík, Jakub Špaňhel, Marek Ther and Ivan Vosecký.
The exhibition’s opening took place on March 7th, 2001.
Video courtesy of the archive of Vladimír Skrepl, camera: Marcel Průcha, VHS format transferred to digital format by VVP AVU.
In its section “Window into the Archive” (Okno do archivu) the Scientific-Research Centre of the Academy of Arts in Prague (VVP AVU) in cooperation with Artyčok.tv regularly publishes works from the video archive of VVP AVU. The selection made for Artyčok.tv focuses on older works (material from the end of the 20th century), and on works involving video art, film, and documentary, as well as documentary material related to recent developments in Czech and Slovak art.
Curators: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
- We'd like to invite you to a short opening.00:02:30.921
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- Welcome to the Václav Špála Gallery.00:02:34.729
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- Today we're opening Míla Preslová's photography exhibition,00:02:39.771
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- being held in the bottom part of the gallery;00:02:43.096
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- and Vladimír Skrepl's in the top part.00:02:45.086
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- Jana Ševčíková will say a few words.00:02:46.888
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- Could we… please… have some quiet?00:02:50.339
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- Welcome to the exhibition of Míla Preslová…00:02:53.204
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- Please keep quiet! The exhibition is about to open!00:02:56.190
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- Not long ago, Míla was our student.00:02:59.467
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- Her works are so large,00:03:02.729
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- they would easily fill up the entire Špála's Gallery.00:03:04.827
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- But we can't display them all, so you'll only see the latest part.00:03:09.384
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- Just a few words about Míla. Míla Preslová is very…00:03:14.384
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- Yes, that one in the red jacket. We're opening his exhibition.00:03:20.112
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- Consider the exhibition open.00:06:03.744
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- I need to thank those people00:06:11.239
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- who've enabled this couple of historians of art to dance;00:06:14.808
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- and allowed us to be here and have this exhibition.00:06:20.925
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- They are the Ministry of Culture and the Prague Town Hall.00:06:27.640
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- What's up, men?00:07:21.409
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- No. It was, it was!00:09:14.971
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- Come here, come give us your advice.00:09:22.858
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- But some people don't like them.00:10:02.877
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- You're asking me as Jana - his wife - what it means?00:10:25.011
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- What do you mean?00:10:27.955
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- It's masturbation or some such thing. It's so stupid...00:10:32.254
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- You can see for yourself what's there.00:10:34.823
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- That's better. It's that sort of American way.00:10:57.604
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- What's up, girls?00:11:39.650
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- - Coward! - Go on, coward!00:11:49.359
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- - I can give advice. - Yes, he does.00:11:53.163
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- He came to my flat and said: remove this partition!00:11:56.011
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- - I didn't participate. - You didn't, right?00:12:11.487
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- Oh man, that's fucked-up.00:12:20.629
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- Don't support these!00:12:22.851
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- An article about how the manipulated press…00:12:24.487
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- Don't be stupid, everybody knows what education you have.00:12:29.731
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- It's just those estates!00:12:33.878