A provincial drawing teacher
Summer experience of Marek Číhal resulted in new paintings trying to look before the present time. The word future can’t be used in this case because there are many other issues mingled in the paintings which Marek continuously deals with and which can take the viewer into completely different spaces and times in our imagination.
- Petra! - Yes... - The following moments are dedicated to you00:00:03.802
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- - Me? - and the whole Steiner family because00:00:09.201
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- of their five year patronage of the gallery 3500:00:14.280
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- as well as to the fifty-eight artists who exhibited here.00:00:22.135
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- I don't want to tell you now I'll tell you after the opening.00:00:35.291
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- After a long time, I went to visit my parents in the Vysočina region00:00:57.389
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- where I was born, it was Friday evening when I met00:00:59.837
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- my childhood friend. He invited me to his birthday party00:01:05.656
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- that was going to take place the next day.00:01:09.731
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- I decided to ride a bicycle there because it was a beautiful day,00:01:11.434
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- a beautiful sunny late afternoon, I was riding up a hill00:01:14.560
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- and I was riding on this big and beautiful plateau00:01:19.071
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- and suddenly a little bird flew by - I don't know what kind of bird00:01:22.340
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- and it was flying close to my head and I thought it was strange.00:01:27.247
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- It was flying next to me for two kilometers.00:01:32.759
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- And then it looked at me and it flew away.00:01:35.205
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- And as soon as it flew away, a hare jumped out00:01:38.500
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- and for ten kilometers the hare was jumping in front of the bicycle.00:01:43.554
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- And I thought this was very strange.00:01:47.729
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- The hare led me to the village00:01:50.205
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- and then jumped back to the field.00:01:52.021
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- This was just like in Avatar or I don't know to what00:01:54.919
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- I can compare it. But it was an experience00:01:57.440
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- based on which I put together this exhibition.00:02:01.225
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- It is titled: "Provincial Teacher of Drawing"00:02:04.079
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- it is about a search for a strange nostalgia or harmony00:02:05.673
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- between the landscape, the animal.. The rockets symbolize00:02:13.614
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- expectations of tomorrow, the break-through into the future,00:02:19.973
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- I create my own stylization of the world:00:02:27.144
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- I try to find a harmony between the abstract and illustrative00:02:31.236
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- parts of the painting, there are toys...00:02:34.599
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- I myself decided on the toys... Actually, I am interested in00:02:39.540
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- humanizing inanimate objects, I add the living context to it..00:02:44.231
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- For example the animals, they are something between00:02:51.242
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- animals, humans, cuddly toys...00:02:55.071
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- It is a bit confused; the identity of the thing, the animal00:02:58.412
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- or whatever is difficult to determine.00:03:04.374
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- The title of the exhibition "Provincial Teacher of Drawing" is00:03:12.290
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- not about a teacher, it is rather about a guide.00:03:17.966
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- "Provincial" refers to the link to the landscape and the place00:03:22.840
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- where there is not much cultural life going on00:03:30.718
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- like in my native place. I also rely on the00:03:36.313
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- imagination of the audience at any level.00:03:39.602
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- No, I was not opening it. The exhibition will be opened by00:03:52.307
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- Honza Zeman's beautiful song.00:03:55.641
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- Out of the demolished church, in a box with a piece of soap,00:04:00.387
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- I brought an angel, they broke his wings.00:04:07.281
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- He was looking at me devoutly, I was a little nervous.00:04:14.838
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- So I put in his palm a small parfume bottle.00:04:22.092
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- Hence believe me, I wanted to ask him..00:04:29.650