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Mark Ther
Richard Watzke is surrounded by numerous works of art and is known for his interest in modern glass sculpture. According to him, individual works of art enrich our lives, however, they are not irreplaceable artefacts – they are also products intended for sale or investment. Some people find Richard Watzke fascinating, others annoying, however, he hardly ever leaves someone cold.
Václav Drozd
They are often presented as condescending patrons of arts, who have decided to put aside a couple of their millions and contribute to public welfare and the promotion of exquisite culture. However, their seemingly good intentions should be seen with view to the context of the troubled political and economic past of our (and not only our) country. We should know how they acquired their property and what social or ecological damage they caused while amassing their fortune.
Jiří David
Marilyn Monroe comes back to life in the form of her frisky doppelganger. According to David, the slowed-down Arabic music that accompanies the video is “a kind of willful act, an Arabesque, perhaps like that ficus tree or whatever that thing is behind ‘Marilyn’, or like the naïve movements of her hands and body.” It can also be interpreted as a counterpoint highlighting the contrast between our view of woman and the Muslim view.
Tibor Horváth, Miklós Mécs, Roland Farkas + 2 more
"The aim of the National Arts Foundation was to: support and set an example for the acquaintance of all social layers and cultural circles to the Hungarian National Art, a knowledge if absent makes it impossible to get a real picture of the Hungarian Nation and Hungarian Culture - all this carried out with a respect of duty, freedom of speech and artistic freedom in the name of a brighter future!"
Mark Ther
Marek Collection does not represent the personal taste of one collector but the collection originated as a systematical joint effort.
The collectors focus particularly on the work of young beginning artists, they purchase works of art by young artists and thus provide testimony to the energy of artists who have just entered the art scene.
Giulio Zannol
Whereas Marina Abramović will continue to benefit from her position of a stock market player who invested well her hard earned capital into a lucrative mega-corporation called Art World, Václav Pišvejc, on the contrary, will, in his fight for acknowledgement, forever remain mainly a Sisyphus-like figure and a question mark hovering above normality and normalization of contemporary culture.
Mark Ther
The collection of Alberto di Stefano and Eugenio Percossi has a representative character with view to the Czech art scene and it also includes a number of works by foreign artists, especially those who exhibited their work within the projects of the Centre for Contemporary Art. The collectors do not focus on any specific type of media, they select works primarily according to their taste not according to the market value. Their collection of art is housed in the reconstructed chateau in Třebešice together with a large number of art installations and site specific work.
Miroslav Barták
Miroslav Barták(*1938) graduated from a naval academy and spent a large part of the sixties on business ships as an engineer. When he could draw in his spare time, he wasn’t so much interested in the motives of exotic lands or the peculiar physiognomy of their inhabitants. He didn’t aspire to prove his skills of capturing the outside world; he was rather interested in discovering what he could tell about it in the lines of his drawings. Quite soon he found the ideal actor for his meticulously directed scenes: a male figure, whose crucial feature was an absent mouth.
Jiří Havlíček, Pavel Ryška
We are used to reading lines of a drawing similarly to how we read physical features of a human face. From those several lines and points we manage to distinguish not only personality but also guess the state of mind it currently finds itself in. Drawn characters has become a common part of our visual environment. In them we will read testimonies about our traits and our acts that are, thanks to the character itself, freed from the weight of fatal determination.
Mark Ther
Martin and Miroslava Kubík, brother and sister, set up a gallery in Litomyšl in 2012, which they named after their father Miroslav Kubík, the founder of a family business Kubík a.s.
Martin and Miroslava Kubík collect contemporary modern art, especially paintings.