REMEMBRANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Nature and purity form the two main topics of Lukáš Kubec‘s gently ironic practice. They can be found in his dynamically introspective portraits of preschool children, his sobering still lives of houseplants and his photographs of the arboretum in Šumavas.
His use of large format photography causes a ceremonial and even magical authenticity to his latest works, and despite his recent attempts to disengage with the aesthetics of traditional photography, his style remains sophisticated.
Kubec (b. 1979) studied under the tuition of Pavel Baňka at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem.
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- We welcome you to the exhibition opening of Lukáš Kubec in Česká Bříza.00:00:12.265
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- Opening speech will be delivered by the curator of the exhibition Pavel Vančát.00:00:17.273
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- I will pass on to him.00:00:21.471
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- Thank you.00:00:23.885
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- I welcome you here.00:00:25.046
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- We are very glad to be able to work here, in such a nice gallery.00:00:27.197
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- We can do here whatever we want.00:00:30.202
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- I will tell you very briefly why Lukáš does these strange things.00:00:33.820
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- You can also read it on this piece of paper.00:00:38.740
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- During last three years it didn´t change a lot.00:00:43.819
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- The pictures themselves didn´t change, but his way of thinking.00:00:47.262
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- He left complicated work that he had been taught at the university in Ústí nad Labem,00:00:50.910
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- and he started to do easier things again, the things he lives through or are around him.00:00:58.887
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- His way of thinking is still complicated, but he tries to express it in an easier way.00:01:08.118
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- That is the reason why we prepared this exhibition in a minimalistic way.00:01:12.704
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- We wanted to give these things that are mostly presented as a series, enough space.00:01:18.949
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- We let them live, breathe alone.00:01:30.301
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- We wanted to present them individually.00:01:34.122
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- We wanted to show the origines of photography.00:01:38.127
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- And that is the view itself that is outlined painterly,00:01:41.379
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- and it is meant to resonate with the feeling presented at the birth of the picture.00:01:51.742
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- That is what we tried to show here intricately, but still simply.00:01:55.502