Essl Art Award Bratislava

• This year's Essl Art Award was no different from previous years.00:00:10.388
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• The award has a strict selection process.00:00:19.495
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• First, there is the on-line component.00:00:25.733
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• Artists from various countries submit their work.00:00:31.119
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• This includes annotations of works submitted.00:00:40.213
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• They send them to the Essl Museum.00:00:45.185
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• The international jury, made of eleven curators, gathers the works.00:00:47.960
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• We then have a look and each of us chooses ten works per country.00:00:54.972
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• These are then generally evaluated.00:01:05.353
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• The jurors' votes are compiled and ten works per country are selected.00:01:11.748
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• These ten artists then hold an exhibition in their respective countries.00:01:22.441
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• Curators travel from country to country00:01:28.180
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• to see all ten exhibitions.00:01:33.692
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• Next, we vote on two winners per country.00:01:37.730
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• The two winners have equal importance.00:01:43.282
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• The winning positions are of equal importance.00:01:47.111
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• To explain why Zuzana Žabková and Marcel Mališ won,00:01:51.951
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• we could say the following:00:02:00.155
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• Zuzana Žabková presented a very sensitive video,00:02:06.132
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• connecting plastic arts with music, choreography, and dance,00:02:12.770
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• while also including intertextual references to the past,00:02:22.669
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• and the Old Testament. The message had multiple layers00:02:28.954
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• and represented, very adequately, the medium used.00:02:33.815
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• Marcel Mališ dealt mainly with collective memory.00:02:38.775
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• His portfolio played a major role. His previous projects.00:02:46.090
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• Jurors appreciated Mališ's sophisticated expression00:02:52.327
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• and subversive rendering of ideas.00:03:00.103
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• The way he confronts our collective memory of the recent past,00:03:03.165
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• with a personal attitude.00:03:08.822
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• It's as if he sought to undermine the general opinion of 198900:03:14.830
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• as being the first step toward a better future.00:03:24.780
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• The confrontational, generational attitude is quite strong.00:03:29.563
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• It's about how this generation views post-1989 changes.00:03:34.546
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• Jurors thought that our development was very dynamic.00:03:40.358
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• As if this school set the standard higher.00:03:48.282
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• I don't want to speak too much for fear of lowering the standard.00:03:53.996
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• However, this is the current view.00:04:00.446
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• They also pointed out the balance between various media represented.00:04:03.716
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• The photography is excellent, as is painting and video.00:04:10.433
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• This also includes objects and sculptures.00:04:15.486
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• The positions are well balanced.00:04:21.204
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• In other countries one medium dominates,00:04:23.662
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• be it painting or photography. Here it is more balanced.00:04:27.745
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• I was surprised by the final selection of artists.00:04:31.863
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• I guessed only three of the Slovak artists,00:04:37.838
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• while I guessed seven Czechs.00:04:40.435
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• So sometimes, I am also very surprised by who's selected.00:04:45.451
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• But one must say that many of those who applied were very good, too.00:04:54.592

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