Vašek and Vašek
Summer is a proper time for the exhibition Vašek and Vašek – it passes the atmosphere of the two artists’ encounter they have been trying to arrange for a long time and it is finally coming about. They have both evidently good reasons for organizing the exhibition and there are parallels in their work and thinking. For example they both examine (sometimes boldly and brashly, sometimes as if obtusely) the originality and copyright issues. Here and there they manage to steal, borrow and give something, other times they look very authorial. They are both able to immerse into both serious and trivial themes but at the same time they have good mind to back away and watch them strategically or ironically and then take the plunge head over heels. The view from inside and outside sets the style of the theme interpretation – from an expressive division and narration, over (pseudo)conceptual series to abstracted shape and feature. One Václav noticeably burdens the media limits and they both burden the limits of genres. Although one of them is more experienced than the other one, they are both gifted with the ability to drag the viewer into the subject and problem, bind him with senses and composure and at the same time they propagate relativity of each view. That is why they are both coming together to show you and play, both in harmony and solo.
- Jarda Jágr is our boy.00:00:01.552
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- Jaromír Jágr is our boy.00:00:06.498
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- Jarda Jágr is our little god.00:00:12.995
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- I've known Edith for a long time,00:00:24.381
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- then I got to know Vašek, little by little,00:00:26.972
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- and we discovered we had many things in common.00:00:30.017
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- So we wanted to experiment with various kinds of communication.00:00:34.522
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- Both at the level of our friendship and atthe professional level.00:00:38.266
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- They came to Brno and chose some of my work.00:00:43.733
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- The final selection was made here in Prague.00:00:46.889
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- Václav showed us a pile of his works.00:00:49.828
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- So we chose from that, not from the entirety of his work.00:00:54.996
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- Our choice was made from that pile.00:00:59.495
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- Those works just happened to be there.00:01:01.886
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- On my side, this is a selection from the past two years.00:01:07.076
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- And on yours?00:01:13.217
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- I have some new work here, although a couple of them are old.00:01:16.308
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- They date back to my first year at the Academy.00:01:23.812
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- Mostly it's recent works I haven't shown before.00:01:27.454
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- I think there are points of contact.00:01:34.100
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- So it was probably very easy to set up.00:01:37.799
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- I wasn't here but I didn't need to make any corrections.00:01:40.822
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- The exhibition Vašek and Vašek is not a curator's concept,00:01:46.334
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- it is an artist's concept.00:01:52.953
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- The artists came up with the idea of the exhibition.00:01:54.493
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- Václav and I thought we should enjoy the exhibition.00:01:58.144
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- We didn't want to make it heavy.00:02:05.004
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- We chose the work that showed some lightness.00:02:08.365
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- But I am happy to hear notes of more serious topics.00:02:13.236
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- The exhibition displays two lines, thus creating an ambivalence,00:02:20.565
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- which is quite characteristic of the work of both Václavs.00:02:27.906
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- Jaromír Jágr is our boy.00:02:46.230
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- Jarda Jágr, a little god.00:02:52.247
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- Jarda Jágr is our boy, a little god.00:02:58.464
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- Jarda Jágr is our boy. Jaromír Jágr is our boy.00:03:11.532
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- Jarda Jágr is our boy, a little god.00:03:21.645
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- I think it's ok, isn't it?00:03:41.547
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- -We'll play it straight away. -As you like.00:03:43.781