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Title of the exhibition will be written on the door

We don´t have to introduce Eric Binder in our region, although he hasn´t turned up in Košice with his suitcase full of ideas for a long time. The curator stool was taken over by Vladimír Beskid, who has been recently given an unlucky media attention as a perpetually being dismissed director of the gallery in Trnava (today already dismissed). Let´s get surprised by those two and one thing is already certain – we are not going to be bored.

artistsErik Binder
curatorsVladimír Beskid
placeKasárne Kulturpark
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castErik Binder
cameraDuchoňová Janka
editingDuchoňová Janka
interviewDuchoňová Janka
categoryReports
published9. 7. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Title of the exhibition will be written on the door
The film shows the members of the art club of the Bedřich Václavek Community House in Třebíč with Antonín Kybal during their outdoor painting trip which took place in the countryside around Ptáčov in 1959. This club was founded in 1953 for mostly amateur painters and a number of professional painters were involved in their training and education.
Jiří David created this film for entirely personal reasons: as a gift for his father (who had shot the original footage) in order to raise his spirits as he suffered from an incurable illness. “The film’s creation was entirely unplanned. I took my father’s 8 mm films and transferred them onto VHS in the simple conditions of our flat: i.e., by projecting them on a screen and filming it with a VHS camera.”
Both authors work with fictional worlds (seemingly) untouched by humans, which serve as romanticized escapes from the chaotic reality of the present. Instead of the desired contemplation, the scenes of an untouched natural world evoke an almost disturbing feeling of permanence and death.