Turbinen

Café Tureček is a gallery in a flat runnig as a testing platform aimed in terms of the program at „marginal effect“. Artists test their new projects or methods in front of a limited number of viewers. The gallery has been run by Filip Polanský and Hana Turečková in their flat in Vinohrady since spring 2010. They prepared there exhibitions of for example Michal Pěchouček and Pavel Švec, Yumiko Ono, Ondřej Roubík and others. Tomáš Bárta (1982) displayed two large canvases which he painted for this exact place. His display refers to a today’s empty revision of modern style, the paintings affect as a sophisticated retro-design in which a report of current situation is enciphered.

artistsTomáš Bárta
curatorsFilip Polanský
placeGalerie Café Tureček
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castTomáš Bárta
cameraJiří Havlíček
soundJiří Havlíček
editingJiří Havlíček
interviewJiří Havlíček
translationTereza Stejskalová
published16. 12. 2011
languageČesky / English
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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.”