I Recommend
- What do you recommend?00:00:00.880
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- Well the exhibition name I Recommend00:00:02.653
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- may appear egoistical a bit,00:00:05.787
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- but it comes out from my work00:00:09.114
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- where I play on the word "I recommend".00:00:11.884
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- It's a verb which doesn't work without a context.00:00:16.287
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- The verb brings the context to life,00:00:19.097
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- but in my case, I played rather with the visuality00:00:22.210
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- and into the text I distilled a symbol00:00:25.990
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- of a quill, ink and a book00:00:29.994
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- which metaphorically stand for a text,00:00:34.783
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- both written and spoken.00:00:38.579
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- So the text recommends itself,00:00:41.181
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- actually the text recommends nothing.00:00:44.542
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- It's a kind of recommendation recommending itself,00:00:47.865
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- so it's a vicious circle, a zero point.00:00:52.541
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- I keep all my work in a computer,00:00:58.037
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- it comes out from things I have already painted.00:01:03.127
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- I photograph them,00:01:06.289
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- then I make a stencil and vary it in the computer.00:01:08.576
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- This is only realization as00:01:14.128
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- it was all ready in my computer.00:01:16.314
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- I have been doing it this way for a long time,00:01:23.044
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- I just repeat it and then vary it,00:01:25.550
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- so the maps or illusions of run colour00:01:28.386
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- are all done with a stencil.00:01:36.687
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- The colour runs under and it's not perfect,00:01:42.576
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- so it appears like an accident, but it's not.00:01:48.172
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- I object to painting regarded as a purely intuitive matter,00:01:53.527
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- that should absorb us and00:02:05.499
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- there are many chances arising,00:02:08.185
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- it's all beautiful and we relish it.00:02:11.298
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- It bothers me a bit at the moment.00:02:16.621
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- Second part of the exhibition is rather intuitive,00:02:21.661
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- which goes for the painting behind me.00:02:26.985
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- I play there not with the text but with00:02:30.944
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- a typographic symbol which I take out of its context00:02:35.420
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- and I supplement it with a visual game,00:02:43.769
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- so this part is more conceptual00:02:47.750
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- and the other one is rather quantitative.00:02:49.943
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- In fact, this small exhibition shows00:02:52.507
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- my two attitudes I often switch between.00:02:59.255
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- When I'm tired by an abstract endless thinking,00:03:04.702
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- I try to concern with concepts and vice versa.00:03:10.027
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- It's kind of a gesture, meaning "accomplished".00:03:16.072
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- I go into details when working,00:03:20.808
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- first I didn't like it was too much on the left,00:03:26.139
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- so I repainted it and moved it00:03:31.473
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- one centimetre to the right and then it fitted.00:03:33.070
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- I've been concerned with paper for a long time.00:03:40.631
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- I was thinking about some rational reason00:03:44.359
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- and I guess it's because I find canvas burdened.00:03:47.464
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- I like the paper structure,00:03:57.198
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- in the next room it's just nailed,00:04:00.679
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- besides the framed paper there is also a print00:04:03.564
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- and there is paper framed in a box00:04:08.868
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- like in a museum.00:04:14.103
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- These three versions show00:04:16.986
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- how I've been treating paper recently.00:04:20.428
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- As for the text...00:04:26.885
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- At one moment I was dissatisfied00:04:28.905
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- with painting and I felt an urge to extend00:04:32.468
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- the fine art range of expression.00:04:36.136
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- In past I would use the text in pictures00:04:41.111
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- and now I started to develop it more.00:04:46.255
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- Maybe because I want to be more extroverted.00:04:48.533