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.

artistsDenisa Krausová, Benedikt Tolar
curatorsHelena Blašková
placeChodovská tvrz
tags
castDenisa Krausová, Benedikt Tolar
cameraEva Jiřička
soundEva Jiřička
editingEva Jiřička
interviewEva Jiřička
translationEva Maršíková, Adéla Dörnerová
published25. 3. 2011
languageČesky / English
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A Cow isn't faster than a Rabbit
The concept of the exhibition stems from a dialogue between historical works presented in 1993 by a group of emerging artists from Ústí nad Labem at two editions of the exhibition NARUŠENÁ ROVNOVÁHA (DISTURBED BALANCE) at the Municipal House in Prague and the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, and completely new projects by younger artists born in the 1980s, who had the opportunity to experience the atmosphere of Ústí nad Labem, especially during their university studies, and this experience led them to develop their authentic creative attitudes.