Good hunt!
The exhibition situated in the rutting period offers an attractive view of contemporary visual arts, where grunting bucks, hunting trophies, scenes from the nature and similar motifs still have the ability to communicate with a very current, humorous and ironical language. The selection focuses on younger generation of artists from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia, but works by middle and older generations are also present. The show has several levels of meaning based on phenomena such as trophy hunting, hunting passion, taxidermy, kitsch, do-it-yourself, man’s relationship to nature, or the relationship between the audience, the artwork, and its creator.
- The exhibition "Good Hunt!" takes place during the deer mating season00:00:16.207
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- which pretty much indicates what the exhibition is about.00:00:20.485
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- The exhibition shows that even in contemporary visual art00:00:26.431
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- mating deers, hunting trophies, hunting scenes00:00:30.668
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- and similar motifs are still popular.00:00:35.650
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- Contemporary artists, however, approach these themes00:00:40.082
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- with irony and distance.00:00:43.649
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- The exhibition shows a selection of works mostly by authors00:01:04.007
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- of the youngest generation but there are also works00:01:07.474
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- by middle and older generations from Slovakia, the Czech Republic,00:01:12.050
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- Austria, Hungary and Slovenia. The selection is diverse.00:01:15.064
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- I did not want to exhaust the theme and I admit00:01:21.016
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- it is a subjective selection, I basically hunted for trophies00:01:29.504
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- and now they are presented here.00:01:35.751
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- A very important aspect of the exhibition,00:01:37.410
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- which may not be apparent at first sight,00:01:40.242
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- is the relationship among the spectator, work, and the work's creator.00:01:43.570
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- I tried to make the selection in such a way so that the audience -00:01:47.603
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- when they come - they can look at it from different angles.00:01:53.583
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- It's like with contemporary art which can be also viewed from different00:01:58.014
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- points of view. Everyone looks at it differently.00:02:02.568
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- In case it is a theoretician, curator, she perceives art in a certain way.00:02:04.908
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- In case it is a regular visitor, she looks at it differently.00:02:09.213
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- This show should invite visitors to take different perspectives -00:02:13.457
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- at least I hope it will happen. Everyone should find00:02:18.855
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- something he finds interesting.00:02:23.224
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- Who is hunting? Does the artwork hunt for the spectator -00:02:25.818
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- his gaze, his interest? Or is it the artist00:02:30.429
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- who is trying to hunt for the viewer's favor, his interest?00:02:35.761
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- Or is the spectator who with his special way of looking at the work00:02:42.010
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- participates in the work's creation? The question also is00:02:48.272
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- whether the curator isn't a hunter of trophies as well00:02:52.833
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- hunting for artworks to put them eventually as trophies on display00:02:59.244
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- in a gallery space. I leave it open..00:03:05.478
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- An important part of the exhibition is also a catalogue00:03:27.363
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- we managed to publish in time for the opening.00:03:30.107
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- It is not mere documentation of the exhibited works.00:03:33.362
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- The catalogue's graphic designer Marek Kianička chose works00:03:38.568
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- - out of the works selected by me for the exhibition -00:03:43.449
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- that he liked the most.00:03:46.318
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- He created a new context, he did it in his own way,00:03:50.465
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- so it is like a different exhibition00:03:54.857
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- composed of the selection.00:03:58.330