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We discussed:
– What it means to be a professional artist
– Being rediscovered after decades
– Everything influences everything
– Speaking the language of things
– what is art?
– the art system
– being a late bloomer
– the need for time and distance
– fleeing communism in 1981
– his connection to nature
– including randomness and chance in art making
– biointervention art
– interspecies art
– cult of personality
– the algorithm
– envying your younger self
– viewers being impressed by tediousness
– buying immortality
People + Places mentioned:
Catacomb saints – https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2020/01/07/divine-inspiration-how-romes-unknown-dead-became-catacomb-saints/
James Hampton – The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly – https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/throne-third-heaven-nations-millennium-general-assembly-9897
Pavlína Morganová, Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain – https://www.amazon.com/Czech-Action-Art-Happenings-Performance/dp/802462317X
National Film Archive, Czech Republic – https://nfa.cz
Gallery1718 – Veronika Holcová, Pavel Hrnčíř – https://www.gallery1718.ca
Roman Buxbaum
Petr Rezek
People who inspired him:
Jiří Kovanda
Karel Miler – https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/miler-karel-1940
Joseph Beuys – https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747
Master Theodoric – https://www.malmecc.eu/master-theodoric-court-painter-of-prague/
Dennis Oppenheim – https://www.dennisaoppenheim.org
Lucian Freud – https://imma.ie/artists/lucian-freud/
Eva Hesse – https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eva-hesse-1280
Contemporary artist whom he likes:
Terry Hoff – http://www.terryhoff.com
Ben Schumacher – https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/ben_schumacher
where to look to see his art:
http://lumir.ca
http://corridor213.ca
http://nevan.gallery
http://darrengallery.com
Hosted by Matthew Dols
http://matthewdols.com
Supported in part by:
EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway
https://eeagrants.org
and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project:
Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com
Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no
