The Last Atlantean

“Radim Langer’s exhibition entitled The Last Atlantean contemplates negation and decay and their relation to artistic work. Matter disintegrates and the same applies to art. Surface of any painting is devastated by chemical reactions, the author’s original intention gets destroyed.”

Tereza Stejskalová

artistsRadim Langer
curatorsTereza Stejskalová
placeEntrance Gallery
tags
castRadim Langer
cameraJan Vidlička
soundJan Vidlička
editingJan Vidlička
interviewJan Vidlička
translationTereza Stejskalová
published18. 2. 2012
languageČesky / English
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The Last Atlantean
In our jargon, the somatic exhibition was called svät. Svät took place at the turning point of time and space, embedded in and at the same time separated from the world ruled by time, space, meaning, and significance. Entering the exhibition was a ritualized transition between the world and the svät, between two different dimensions of the same reality. Pilgrims were torn from their everyday lives and thrown into a sacred space-time, where their derailed minds were exposed to events that were unheard of outside.
The long life of industrial products, their slow decomposition and their subsequent journey into the earth - with all this, the artist gives nature and geological time a far more optimistic perspective than we as humans can attribute to ourselves. We now know that the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean has exceeded the size of Texas and is approaching the size of all of North America.