JIŘÍ KOVANDA
Collage as a Performative Strategy in the Works of Jiří Kovanda.
- Now we are in the Gallery Krobath in Berlin.00:00:12.411
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- It is a new branch of the gallery in Vienna.00:00:17.066
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- Right today it opens its new space here in Berlin.00:00:22.128
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- I´ve been asked to exhibit here my series of collages, drawings and imprints00:00:28.446
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- from the end of the 80´s and the beginning of the 90´s.00:00:37.831
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- They are still things that are related to the former regime.00:00:44.010
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- Or things related to the new events.00:00:46.424
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- It is interesting because there is no difference in works from these two periods.00:00:50.564
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- It would be difficult to recognize that something has changed.00:00:57.666
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- I think the change of political regime does not reflect in my works.00:01:00.831
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- I´ve wanted to do something that would relate to those collages,00:01:29.626
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- to the way of connection things together.00:01:38.053
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- I´ve wanted to do an object that would connect00:01:42.677
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- two things that normally do not relate to each other.00:01:49.484
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- It is a piece of wood found here during the reconstruction.00:01:53.104
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- And some crayons.00:01:57.411
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- The red one is missing.00:02:00.328
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- I think the red color symbolises many different things.00:02:01.875
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- Everybody may imagine under the red color anything he wants.00:02:10.183