Hunt
Hunt is one of the most primordial human skills of getting food that appeared long before the conscious and systematic vegetable growing. Thus it is rather an elementary survival technique.
Similarly like art, craft, cult, sex or human communication, the hunt has thousands and millions years long evolution. The hunt as a collective skill, social pastime or expression of social status, object of art, subject of scientific investigation, specialized occupation, hobby and relaxation, way of keeping the “balance” and finally also a modern transformation of hunt in “wilderness” into a factory farming which is the source of meat in a large scale. The archetypal human activity went through a significant change.
The Hunt exhibition does not aim to formulate positively any critical attitude or to be activistic in any sense. The main initiative was the work of artists dealing with the given theme in different ways. It is not an attempt to express any creative tendency with typical representatives but a thematic exhibition presenting pieces of art showing different points of view on the confrontation between man and animal resulting in the death of one of them – however we approach the fact. Different perspectives of each artist reveal a grotesque irony, fetishism, naturalism, fantasy based on mythical motifs and utopian attempts to change the situation. The variety of attitudes and means of expression creates not only an artistic mosaic of impressive works but is also open to all the questions addressing contemporary metropolitan people.
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- The exhibition titled "Hunting" is a thematic exhibition.00:00:25.406
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- It focuses on hunting as an activity00:00:29.354
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- that has been part of human life since prehistoric times.00:00:36.522
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- It can be a topical theme even nowadays.00:00:43.087
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- I chose this theme00:00:46.858
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- not because I was so interested in00:00:51.927
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- but because I noticed that00:00:56.457
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- several present artists deal with this theme in their works.00:01:01.148
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- Originally, I met three students of the Academy of Fine Arts.00:01:26.888
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- Namely, Marek Číhal, Tomáš Skála, and Jana Doležalová.00:01:33.487
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- She is already a graduate.00:01:38.174
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- All works shared one significant point - moment of shooting.00:01:42.739
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- Each of them works with a different medium.00:01:52.752
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- Jana works with performance and video,00:01:54.493
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- Tomáš is a sculptor, and00:01:59.400
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- Marek is a painter.00:02:01.560
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- This was a base of different, creative, ideological, and aesthetical approaches.00:02:05.710
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- Later on, I wanted to add other works00:02:19.177
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- so they could create a wider mosaic on this theme.00:02:22.954
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- I added Janja Prokič. She is a student of the AAAD.00:02:29.240
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- She studies jewellery.00:02:35.259
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- In her last well-known collection00:02:37.659
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- for which she was awarded by the Prize of Design00:02:41.603
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- she worked with animal motives and with genuine leather.00:02:43.881
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- Another author, I chose is a total opposite, is Ondřej Brody.00:02:49.015
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- He exhibits here his dog carpet, a dog skin.00:02:55.535
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- Then you can see a Radek Brousil´s photo,00:03:03.991
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- it is from a larger cycle depicting dead animals in nature.00:03:09.502
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- Finally, he chose one picture from this series.00:03:16.201
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- and that is a cut cow head laid on a table.00:03:20.077
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- For me, it was not important to present many works, to fill this space up.00:03:31.180
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- For instance, I was at the final exams at the Academy of Fine Arts,00:03:37.840
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- there are many students whose works focus on this theme.00:03:43.301
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- I was inspired by those three artists00:03:51.244
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- and I just wanted to add something more.00:03:56.590
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- Of course with respect to the space here, I couldn´t choose more.00:04:00.028