The artist Despina Stokou invited six art professionals – a gallery director, an art critic, an art editor, a collector, a curator and an artist to create their own alter ego. In a series of 6 double shows they were presenting the results of their work.

artistsDespina Stokou, Tithonus, Woensel Jan Van
curatorsDespina Stokou
placeGRIMMUSEUM
tags
cameraFrantišek Zachoval
soundTithonus
editingFrantišek Zachoval
interviewFrantišek Zachoval
published16. 10. 2010
languageČesky / English
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The works on display were created between 2003 and 2008. I made them all during my stay in the Czech Republic. I didn't paint much in India at the time, I was just experimenting. I mostly created works on paper as tests of what I would paint on canvas. However, it often happens that the papers turn out better than the canvases. I find papers more suitable for this type of work because of their delicacy. But it is difficult to exhibit them, as they require special frames and must be placed under glass, which causes a lot of trouble. That is why I have never exhibited larger papers.
Throughout his life, Chalupecký promoted and defended new artistic trends and was interested in general questions of art, especially the meaning of art in modern society. He was a defender of art in connection with life. In today's terms, we could perhaps use the term activist or engaged art. He did not believe in the purely aesthetic function of art and culture in general.