The exhibition AUTOMATIC VIEW takes its origin from and is represented as a monothatic and focused dialog of two artistic individualities, a photographer and a painter. For both of them, whose work is mainly known for traditional techniques and its qualities, the exhibition gives, one might even say – a possibility to increase the creative approach and drive to more conceptual and systematic way in terms of artists’ methods.

All parts of the project in general could be considered as a certain documentation or transposition of the concrete public space areas in a manner of shooting, framing and seeing. The Emergency exit series consist of ten looks to almost the same parts of interiors in a skyscraper. As of a viewer, he is confronted by empty, substitutive and a bit nostalgic reality which is captured in the most skillful way. The only change he can follow, however outside of the image – is a photographer’s vertical travel within the hotel floors, as if common emergency evacuation was shown. We can see the same precision in a nostalgical ambience of the movie projection Broadcast. It consists of a short of mechanical captures taken every 30 minutes during one day, shot on 8 mm film without using a tripod. Caused changes of the light, as a day turns to night, throw us back to stereotypical vanity, at the same time camera movement let us feel a spectator‘s attendance. It seems that funnel-shaped symmetry of the building in the middle of a dull observation tries to affirm the unforgettable of the once seen landscape from the position of a viewer.

 

artistsPetra Steinerová, Zbyněk Sedlecký
placeKarlin Studios
tags
castPetra Steinerová, Zbyněk Sedlecký
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
editingJan Vidlička
interviewJan Vidlička
translationEva Maršíková
published20. 2. 2012
languageČesky / English
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AUTOMATIC VIEW
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.