A Cow isn’t faster than a Rabbit
Denisa Krausová and Benedikt Tolar gain still more peculiar position on the Czech scene of art. Although they are not an authorial couple, she is a precise painter of large-area canvases, he is a senssitive sculptor of ready-made objects, in principle they are both grounded on very similar creative strategies. They are both playful and wild, they don’t lack in the sense of tradition or in the courage to change it or miss it out completely. With a wit and irony so typical of them, they recycle everything they come across, they mix old and new, a personal story with the social one, fantasy with reality, banality with originality… Resulting compositions, either pictorial or spatial, are a multilayered episode of one big megastory… in case of their collective exhibition in Chodovská tvrz twice as bigger.
- Chodov Fortress gallery:00:00:03.230
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- A COW ISN'T FASTER THAN A RABBIT00:00:06.213
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- Chodov Fortress is known00:00:09.649
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- as a troublemaker gallery00:00:12.649
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- for artists who are only interested in money.00:00:15.649
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- This bad reputation needs to be changed.00:00:22.031
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- And that's why Helena is here:00:00:26.167
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- to make the change happen00:00:29.167
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- and to invite interesting artists.00:00:31.872
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- It may sound ridiculous00:00:35.182
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- but the purpose of this gallery00:00:38.182
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- is to bring culture to Jižní Město00:00:41.182
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- without becoming a regional gallery.00:00:44.413
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- And that's a tough challenge for Helena.00:00:47.986
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- We want to swim against the stream,00:00:52.681
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- but without scaring away the visitors.00:00:55.898
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- Cheers. May we always be faster than cows!00:00:59.478
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- Helena had the idea00:01:03.527
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- of connecting objects with paintings.00:01:06.308
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- I've known Benedikt and his work00:01:09.973
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- for several years.00:01:12.973
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- So I knew immediately I wanted to invite him00:01:15.831
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- to join me for this exhibition.00:01:19.331
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- Our common trait is playfulness.00:01:22.510
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- The exhibition was quite complicated00:01:25.815
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- to install, even though I'd thought00:01:29.125
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- our works were a great match.00:01:32.315
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- We didn't want it to be playful00:01:36.444
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- to the point of embarrassment.00:01:39.444
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- I wouldn't mind that,00:01:42.294
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- I like embarrassing stuff.00:01:44.794
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- How does Benedikt work with humor?00:01:47.911
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- Well, he finds something in the trash00:01:51.216
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- and glues it to another thing.00:01:54.883
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- But it's never humor for humor's sake.00:01:58.219
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- That's what I like about his works.00:02:03.701
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- I created many of the works00:02:07.984
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- specially for this exhibition.00:02:10.984
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- Of course, I knew there would also be00:02:13.823
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- some works by Denisa.00:02:17.323
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- Denisa's works are unusual collages,00:02:20.416
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- installations made on canvas.00:02:25.629
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- It's as if she painted the objects I make.00:02:28.782
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- I like her way of working with the scale00:02:33.974
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- and using intuition.00:02:38.206
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- I think Denisa paints intuitively.00:02:42.064
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- Her works also have a touch of surrealism.00:02:49.306
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- They probably filmed the whole thing, huh?00:02:56.667
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