Galerija Miroslav Kraljević & Galerija Nova, in collaboration with Display, Prague present: ‘I invited couple of friends to have a look’..
Jesper Alvaer | Vasil Artamonov | Zbynìk Baladrán | Milena Dopitová | Pavel Humhal | Barbora Klímová | Alexey Klyuykov | Jiøí Kovanda | Dominik Lang | Marek Meduna | Václav Magid | Michal Pìchouček | Jiøí Skála | Slávka Sobotovičová | Tomáš Svoboda | Kateøina šedá | Jan šerých | Marek Ther | Tomáš Vanìk
Curated by: Vjera Borozan & David Kulhanek
The exhibition focuses on two aspects: a conceptual approach to art and the incorporation of the experience of the real into art, i.e. two layers of the same thing: real fiction and conceptual fiction. The practices of the Czeck artists represented at the exhibition evolves from explorations in social space, detections of non-linearity, reconstructions and re-evaluation of memory, establishing new relations and exploring the ‘lower degrees of the ordinary’.
The featured works are a direct reaction to a social context – artists comment on the experiences resulting from the everyday in a an unspectacular way without direct involvement – revealing and creating voids and gaps in public space – in a radical and delicate way at the same time. Special attention is given to the works of Jiøí Kovanda, artist of the second generation of Czeck “actionism” of the late 70s, whose minimalistic actions, interventions into the everyday and works of ephemeral nature have served as a basis for the concept of the exhibition.
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Display is state-independent and non-profit space for contemporary visual art in Prague, founded in 2001, focused on presenting international artists and promoting a younger generation of Czeck artists, developing international partnerships and initiating long-term collaborative projects with other European spaces for contemporary art.
www.display.cz
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In the frame of Criticize Now!
Supported by: Erste Bank Group, European Cultural Foundation, City of Prague, City of zagreb – City Office for Culture, Education and Sport, Ministry of Culture – Czeck Republic, Ministry of Culture – Republic of Croatia, Ina d.d., National Foundation for Civil Society Development
All events at Galerija Nova organized by WHW and AGM.
