Today´s Altars-Parallel Altars
The exhibition represents searching for the intersection between two stories: religious Christian myth and visual art in the period 2000 – 2012. The exhibition consists of two parts, which are loosely interconnected. The first section was made in cooperation with twelve authors of young generation. The presented works of art were made as a result of creative task to make so-called today´s altar. The idea of making altars is inspired by the work of Stanislav Filka (1937), who realized the series of works titled Today´s Altars. The second section is aimed at a survey of works of fine art, which opens a dialogue with Christian religion throught its iconography, symbols, religious metaphors or debate on relationships between the church and politics. The works of art of selected authors are classified into the four independent units: The Saint – The Saints, Jesus in Disneyland, The Other View and The Heritafe of the Past.
- Today´s Altars - Parallel Altars Curator: Lucia Miklošová00:00:08.580
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- The exhibition is titled Today´s Altars - Parallel Altars,00:00:28.780
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- it deals with the reflection of Christianity in Slovak visual art,00:00:31.778
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- during the years 2000 - 2012. It is a concentrated overview on works dealing with Christianity or biblical myth.00:00:34.316
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- The exhibition consists of two independent sections which can be seen as two projects.00:00:47.449
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- But there are loosely interconnected.00:00:55.750
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- There was a space limitation in Turcianska galéria, so the period of time was limited in this way.00:00:58.548
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- The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections depending on how the authors deal with the subject.00:01:14.836
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- First theme is dedicated to Dorota Sadovská - the only author00:01:19.939
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- which has been dealing with the sacral theme systematically.00:01:27.084
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- She entered the art scene in 1990´s with the theme of martyrs which is rooted in Christian tradition.00:01:32.410
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- The author works with the opposition of physical versus spiritual.00:01:38.512
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- She finds a consensus in the form of hybrid being not only in the means of the display,00:01:44.533
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- interpreting the figures from the bird´s-eye view,00:01:54.895
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- but also on the level of the medium expanding beyond the ordinary perception of medium of painting.00:01:59.705
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- The second section is titled Jesus in Disneyland inspired by the book of American sociologist David Lyon,00:02:06.191
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- and his book Jesus in Disneyland - it says that seeing the priest00:02:16.568
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- disseminating the message of Bible in Disneyland is not unusual.00:02:27.422
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- The Disneyland argues: when the God wants to enter Disneyland, why not to give Him a space.00:02:30.583
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- So today the religion is forced to enter the market with its goods.00:02:40.892
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- David Lyon takes Disneyland as a metaphor of postmodernism.00:02:46.002
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- His view is based on American way of life and it doesn´t fully fit the Slovak context,00:02:51.257
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- but the common feature are the roots of contemporary visual culture,00:03:01.044
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- into which they interpret the traditional biblical message without denying its original sense.00:03:11.910
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- The third section is titled The Other View - the common feature00:03:18.122
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- is ironizing of Christian symbol by emptying the original sense00:03:31.170
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- and using the symbol as a feature in the context of new meaning.00:03:42.065
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- There are various humorous works with allusion on consuming society.00:03:49.344
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- The authors work with iconography denying its original sense.00:03:59.693
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- In the first collection they haven´t denied it, only searching for a new current form.00:04:08.672
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- And here it is emptied in order to build up new sense.00:04:20.617