Collected reflections
The exhibition focuses on coping with intensified, or on the contrary subdued presence of logical relations in different levels and processes of art.From any side the accented causality can gain extreme positions of brilliance, incomprehension, awkwardness, humour, emptiness, isolation, Laurel and Hardy like straightforwardness or complicated simplicity. In times when the feeling, that conceptual paths had been beaten for good before they were going to be forgotten, creeped in, we are afraid to lose sound judgement and grasp at the craft opposite. We are all aware, that every work (not just the one of art) has its reason and consequence and that we oscillate between these limitations automatically . That’s why the exhibition finds itself in the state of having no theme and restriction, but it doesn’t mean, that the interest can’t be fostered that way. I don’t want to see the exhibition in advance and fulfill my scenario of demonstrations of reasons and consequences of carefully chosen works pursuing my intention. I would prefer a more open structure of opinions rather than a collection of artistic evidence. That is why I took the liberty of asking artists themselves (although I am aware I am forcing them to a more active approach to the exhibition than just handing work to the curator – on the other hand I take into account their resignation and hope I am not going to stand in the middle of an empty gallery on my own on the day of the opening) to offer me some of their reflections which I am going to choose for a collection without any aspiration to any solutions.
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- COLLECTED REFLECTIONS Curator: Edith Jeřábková00:00:15.160
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- I let myself be inspired by the space.00:00:19.320
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- I quite like the front room00:00:26.480
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- but the hall is a tough nut to crack.00:00:29.760
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- I kept thinking00:00:33.160
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- about what I was going to do with it.00:00:35.160
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- I thought it was impossible00:00:38.520
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- to make a beautiful installation here.00:00:41.520
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- But that wasn't my goal, anyway.00:00:44.880
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- And then I had the idea to invite00:00:47.800
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- a whole bunch of artists.00:00:50.800
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- So that's how it all started.00:00:53.480
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- I also needed to find a theme00:00:56.720
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- that wouldn't remind me of a theme00:00:59.720
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- because I'm bored with thematic exhibitions.00:01:04.080
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- It occurred to me to use the theme of logic.00:01:07.960
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- Logic is omnipresent,00:01:12.880
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- it's included in almost every work,00:01:17.560
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- but still you can focus on it.00:01:21.640
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- It allowed me to choose any work00:01:27.160
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- I wanted.00:01:30.480
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- Jan Šerých pointed out to me00:01:32.960
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- that it looked like I was testing them,00:01:36.080
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- like I had an ironic approach towards them.00:01:40.040
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- But this wasn't the case,00:01:43.879
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- my approach was serious.00:01:46.720
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- Is it for children, or for adults?00:01:50.360
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- It's for children.00:01:53.360
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- That's nice. Is it an original?00:01:55.800
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- No, this used to be a piece of furniture.00:01:58.800
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- But even then, I could make it turn.00:02:05.400
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- So you didn't even add the tip?00:02:09.720
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- Well, I had to improve it a little.00:02:12.680
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- It's simply a spinning top.00:02:18.520
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- Deep inside,00:02:21.920
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- I also kept thinking00:02:25.320
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- about post-conceptual art,00:02:29.160
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- about its direction,00:02:32.280
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- about the omnipresent character00:02:34.906
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- that it shares with logic...00:02:37.680
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- But in the case of the authors00:02:40.920
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- we saw as post-conceptual, like Tomáš Svoboda,00:02:43.720
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- the textual language needs to be supported00:02:47.720
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- by the form.00:02:51.200
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- This means that the concept00:02:53.200
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- accepts again a certain visual form.00:02:56.200
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- I thought this would be reflected00:02:59.600
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- in the exhibition00:03:03.120
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- but I didn't want to emphasize it.00:03:05.600
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- Of course,00:03:08.978
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- this is not a complex selection of authors00:03:11.160
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- that could represent contemporary Czech art.00:03:14.660
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- Not at all.00:03:20.452
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- Camera, editing00:03:25.741