2011/12/15 - Open Call
<p><strong>Press release / 15. 12. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">The Open Call exhibition presents the response to the open call to participate in the project Lucifer Effect: Encountering Evil </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>The Open Call exhibition (16. 12. 2011 – 6. 1. 2012) comprises selected works which entered the open call to participate in the project Lucifer Effect: Encountering Evil. Out of the total 89 submitted artistic projects, 12 are displayed in this exhibition, all dealing with the subject of the evil within and around us. </strong></p>
<p>The thematic framework of the <strong>Lucifer Effect: Encountering Evil </strong>exhibition and project and the related open call to the public, whose resulting projects are presented in the Open Call exhibition, focuses on the contrasting findings of social psychology, which reveal how easy it is to make man do evil and by contrast how ordinary people often surprisingly perform heroic deeds. Philip Zimbardo, a prominent American psychologist whose work instigated the Lucifer Effect: Encountering Evil exhibition and project, illustrated the circumstances which lead to the spread of evil and also described the principles enabling us to fight evil.<br />
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Twelve selected artists have responded to these principles, which were formulated in the open call, using videos, multimedia installations, photographs, texts and paintings. For example, the exhibition contains a video reconstruction of the life stories of two young women, artists, who were subjected to domestic abuse; a collection of texts from ten prominent Czech authors which authentically and spontaneously document the forms of assenting to evil and the means the authors use to urge to violence; experimental multimedia installations based on the idea of abusing art as a method of torture; a map of the Lucifer effect; a recording of a one-hour live performance depicting the active fight of one woman against evil and its manifestations in our personalities or a project documenting the suicide attempt of the author's half-sister that took place in winter 2010. <br />
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The open call concept arises from a democratic principle - from initiating the actual call to its execution, up to the decision phase concerning the most interesting artistic project. The best projects will be announced on 6 January 2012 and prizes will be awarded in three categories: the panel award, audience award and award for the applicants of the open call. <br />
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The members of the panel - Philip Zimbardo, Jiřina Dienstbierová, Markéta Hejná, Jaroslav Anděl, Jiří Just, Leoš Válka and Jiří Šteg - will select the best piece on display. DOX visitors and the general public can also vote on the best exhibited piece using ballot boxes in the exhibition rooms or vote via the DOX Facebook profile: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz">http://www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</a>. The applicants of the open call themselves can also vote for the best of the 89 submitted projects. <br />
The exhibition runs until 6 January 2012, when the voting results will be announced. <br />
For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.dox.cz ">www.dox.cz</a> and <a href="http://lucifereffect.dox.cz">http://lucifereffect.dox.cz</a><br />
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<strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX programme is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Press contact<br />
</span></strong>Michaela Šilpochová<br />
T: +420 774 222 355<br />
E: media@dox.cz</p>
<p>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art</p>
<p><strong>Office address <br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
<strong>Exhibition room<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours:<br />
</strong>Mon: 10–18, Tue: closed, Wed - Fri: 11–19, Sat – Sun: 10–18</p>
<p><strong>CHRISTMAS 2011 <br />
</strong>23. 12. – 26.12. CLOSED (designshop & bookshop OPEN 11.00 – 19.00 h)<br />
27. 12. – 30.12. 11.00 – 19.00 h<br />
31. 12. – 1. 1. CLOSED<br />
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</p>
2011/12/15 - Digital sculptures
<p><strong>Press release / 15. 12. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Digital sculptures<br />
</span>(16. 12. 2011 – 9. 1. 2012)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Digital sculptures exhibition presents a contemporary trend in the field of progressive digital sculptures, which utilises the newest tools of spatial art and precise object design. The work of students from the sculptor's and spatial art studios of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Technology in Brno and students from the Faculty of Art and Design at J.E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem can be viewed at the Centre for Contemporary Art until 9 January 2011.</strong></p>
<p>The exhibition was prepared by <strong>Michal Gabriel's Sculpture Studio I of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Technology in Brno</strong>. The exhibited works were created thanks to the initiative of professor Gabriel, the sculptor Tomáš Medek and Richard Fajnor, head of the multimedia studio, who initially organised a lecture about 3D technologies and subsequently provided the students with an opportunity to create their own smaller sculptures and statues in a 3D studio. Professor Michal Gabriel explains how digital sculptures are made: "You can modify digital shapes in a computer using a 3D printer and repeatedly materialise them, in a similar manner to when you physically model the shape of clay. It is possible to mould the final form of the printed sculptures and modify it, and then - using a 3D scanner - return the sculpture into digital form to make adjustments that cannot be made using classic sculpting techniques."</p>
<p>Taking into account artistic and technological originality, the exhibition presents only the most interesting work, which must be suitable for realisation by the students participating in the project. The sculptures are printed using plaster composite or ABS plastic. Some of the exhibits are in a form that would have been impossible to create without the use of a 3D printer, since it is impossible to make a cast from them. The works of Michal Gabriel and Tomáš Medek, who have been active in the field of digital sculptures for many years, are also included in the exhibition. Their sculptures are created from materials used for 3D print, which are then cast in the classic sculpture material - bronze. <br />
The exhibition runs until 9 January 2012.</p>
<p>Project Partners: MCAE Space to Space</p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>Contacts</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Press contact<br />
</span></strong>Michaela Šilpochová<br />
T: +420 774 222 355<br />
E: media@dox.cz</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art </span></strong></p>
<p>Office address <br />
Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
Exhibition room<br />
Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours:<br />
</strong>Mon: 10–18, Tue: closed, Wed - Fri: 11–19, Sat – Sun: 10–18</p>
<p><strong>CHRISTMAS 2011 <br />
</strong>23. 12. – 26.12. CLOSED (designshop & bookshop OPEN 11.00 – 19.00 h)<br />
27. 12. – 30.12. 11.00 – 19.00 h<br />
31. 12. – 1. 1. CLOSED<br />
www.dox.cz<br />
</p>
2011/11/04 - Jindřich Chalupecký Award: Final 2011
<p><strong>Press release / 3. 11. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX presents the finalists of The Jindřich Chalupecký Award</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>All finalists for this year’s Jindřich Chalupecký Award provide indicators for where the leading edge of art lies today. At FINAL 2011, a joint exhibition held at DOX (4. 11. 2011 – 15. 1. 2012), Filip Cenek, Dominik Lang, Pavel Sterec, Mark Ther and Jiří Thýn present conceptual art, kinetic pictures and non-narrative photography. </strong></p>
<p>Even at an early stage, when the international jury was deciding upon finalists, it had already become obvious that this year’s Jindřich Chalupecký Award short-list would consist entirely of artists creating installations, objects, animations, photographs and videos – art forms that have long been the focus of contemporary artists, although not necessarily legible to the public at first sight. The board of organisers have therefore, since the announcement of the finalists in June 2011, turned their attention to presenting each of the five nominees (Filip Cenek, Dominik Lang, Pavel Sterec, Mark Ther and Jiří Thýn) within the broader context of their work. Individual artistic events have taken place in the Czech Republic under the title 5 finalists, 5 months and 5 places.</p>
<p>The award in question, named after Jindřich Chalupecký, a critic and commentator upon art and literature, came into being at the behest of Václav Havel and will be awarded for the twenty-second time this year. While it has been remarked that in past years the short-list brought together classical works of art and conceptual art, the international jury’s finalists this year do not include any painters or sculptors. On the other hand, the short-list includes, for the first time, a graduate from an academic department of photography. “As theoretical attitudes change as to what does and does not constitute art, as the visual nature of the net and of everyday life changes, so changes what is produced by the youngest generation of artists in the Jindřich Chalupecký Award competition,” comments Exhibition Curator Lenka Lindaurová from the Jindřich Chalupecký Society.</p>
<p>All five artists participating in the FINAL 2011 exhibition employ concepts that frequently require involvement on the part of the viewer; the process that gave rise to any given piece – no longer in the form of an easel painting or a sculpture – is crucial for them. “All finalists selected are currently playing important roles in Czech art and the body of their existing work indicates that the FINAL 2011 exhibition will be a major event,” says Christian Rattemeyer, Chairman of the Jury.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Dominik Lang </strong>was invited to participate in the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Venice earlier this year, and confirmed the jury’s good judgement with an installation that was very well received indeed. At the FINAL 2011, Dominik Lang presents Private Museum, a spacial structure, a “museum exhibition within a gallery exhibition“ and provides the viewer with insight into the process of creating a work of art.</p>
<p><strong>Jiří Thýn </strong>had a successful solo exhibition of photographs this year entitled Archetypes, Space, Abstraction held in the Old Town Hall, Prague, and Basic Studies, his presentation of non-narrative photography, is a loose follow-up to it. His installation contemplates abstraction in photography and attempts to transfer the photographic medium into space, at the same time as capturing the process of the birth of a work of art.</p>
<p><strong>Filip Cenek </strong>has devoted a great deal of time to video and animation. His contribution consists of multi-channel transparency projections held in a dark space without sound. In Wonky Cinema, a minimalist installation, he demonstrates through projected slides, modes of narration in which the sequence of events is not exclusively dictated by chronological order. The projection channels are not synchronised, so every visitor will thus see a different, original “story”.</p>
<p><strong>Pavel Sterec</strong>, for his installation Two Small Intersections on a Big Vertical Line, borrowed a stalagmite and a meteorite from the National Museum in Prague. He added two sets of postcards to them, records of happenings: a “live library” with scientists in the Koněprusy Caves (symbolised by the stalagmite) which the artist presented as part of an event accompanying the Chalupecký award, and “speed dating“ (symbolised by the meteorite), an event held on the premises of a Prague observatory.</p>
<p><strong>Mark Ther </strong>has been involved with video art for some time, devoting special attention to matters of human identity. His contribution to DOX exhibition is Das wandernde Sternlein [The Wandering Star], a video that tells a tale of children lost in the woods of the former Sudetenland. Although the story is fiction, entirely the creation of the artist, he has since been informed by the people of the area that something very similar did indeed occur some eighty years ago.</p>
<p>The designer of the FINAL 2011 exhibition is <strong>Zbyněk Baladrán</strong>, himself nominated several times for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. The exhibition, held at DOX, will be open to the public until 15 January 2012.</p>
<p>The five members of the international jury will select, in the course of the exhibition, this year’s winner, to be announced on 25 November 2011 at the prize-giving ceremony at DOX. The prize will be presented by Theodor Pištěk, one of the founders of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award and a leading Czech artist. The final accompanying event in a public space to be held before the award ceremony takes place when Dominik Lang introduces his work in Tábor. <br />
</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Centrum současného umění DOX</span></strong><br />
Michaela Šilpochová<br />
media@dox.cz<br />
+420 774 222 355</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition space: <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><strong>Office: <br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
www.dox.cz<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého</span></strong></p>
<p>Národní 11, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
+420 777 553 652<br />
www.cjch.cz</p>
<p><strong>PR, press service – 4PRESS<br />
</strong>Martina Reková<br />
martina.rekova@4press.cz <br />
+420 731 573 993<br />
Klára Mixová<br />
klara.mixova@4press.cz<br />
+420 731 514 462<br />
</p>
<p><br />
<strong>Organisers<br />
</strong>Jindřich Chalupecký Society, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art</p>
<p><strong>Co-organisers<br />
</strong>The Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Foundation For a Civil Society</p>
<p><strong>Main Partner<br />
</strong>Deloitte</p>
<p>The primary partner of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award this year is Deloitte Audit s.r.o., further expanding the company’s support for young Czech artists. Deloitte has been a sponsor of the arts since 2009, as part of a project known as “Art of Success”. More information about the project is available at www.deloitte.cz.</p>
<p><strong>PR Deloitte<br />
</strong>Kateřina Marešová<br />
kmaresova@deloittece.com<br />
+420 733 611 624</p>
<p><strong>Partners<br />
</strong>Ministry of Culture of the CR, Česká spořitelna, Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy, Triga, TTV<br />
Czech Centres</p>
<p><strong>Media Partners<br />
</strong>Česká televize, Respekt, Art+antiques, Český rozhlas 3 Vltava, Artmap</p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners<br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Ministry of Culture, City of Prague, TECHO, Premiant City Tour, Poster Infinity</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners<br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
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2011/09/22 - IVANA ŠRÁMKOVÁ: I Can´t Stop, JIŘÍ PELCL: Luxury Dwelling
<p><strong>Press Release / 22 September 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">IVANA ŠRÁMKOVÁ: I Can´t Stop<br />
</span>(22 September – 31 October 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">JIŘÍ PELCL: Luxury Dwelling<br />
</span>(22 September – 31 October 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong><br />
Unique glass sculptures and objects by a leading Czech artist, Ivana Šrámková and a luxury design collection by the internationally acclaimed designer, Jiří Pelcl will be on display in DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague.</strong></p>
<p><strong>IVANA ŠRÁMKOVÁ: I Can´t Stop</strong></p>
<p>The exhibition entitled <i>I Can´t Stop </i>features a selection of works from recent years by a distinguished Czech sculptor Ivana Šrámková. An extensive installation in an area of more than 400m2 presents over twenty large colour sculptures made of melted glass as well as the artist’s latest collection of smaller objects.</p>
<p>Ivana Šrámková’s stylized glass sculptures can be perceived as three-dimensional distillations of basic figurative forms. By using her characteristic language of simple, geometric symbols, the artist reduces both animal and human forms to their essence and endows her sculptures and objects with an extraordinary combination of archetypal quality mixed with special character and wit.</p>
<p>A guided exhibition tour with the artist will take place on 24 October, 2011. <br />
The exhibition will be on display till 31 October 2011.</p>
<p>Ivana Šrámková’s artworks were created in cooperation with: Sklo Ivan Novotný, Glasika, Radovan Brychta a Elektrodesign Ventilátory<br />
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<strong>Ivana Šrámková </strong>studied at the The High School of Applied Arts for Glass-making in Železný Brod and at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. During her career she has staged twenty solo exhibitions, participated in almost forty group projects and has been awarded several prestigious prizes for design. Her sculptures are represented, among others, in the collections of the National Gallery and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Lausanne and a number of private collections both in the Czech Republic and abroad.</p>
<p><strong>JIŘÍ PELCL: Luxury Dwelling<br />
</strong>Designshop DOX by Qubus<br />
<br />
A special installation entitled Luxury Dwelling is the Prague premier of a collection designed by Jiří Pelcl for Gallery Grosseti at Milano Design Week 2011. In DOX Centre for Contemporary Art the collection is complemented with new pieces: a lamp Mystery, a table Homy and an armchair Evergreen. Luxury Dwelling paraphrases the term "luxury" in today's design-obsessed world.<br />
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The collection can be viewed as a living room for a new realistic epoch called the human age of design. It is based on ordinary and reliable materials, such as wood or paper, whose innovative usage adds a new dimension to familiar objects and highlights their essence. The collection will be on display in Designshop DOX by Qubus till 31 October 2011.</p>
<p><strong>Jiří Pelcl </strong>is an internationally acclaimed designer working with a number of media and materials. Professor and former Rector of the Prague Academy of Art, Architecture and Design, he has lectured extensively worldwide and obtained a number of prestigious awards for design. Among his better known commissions have been Václav Havel´s study in Prague Castle, interiors of the Czech Embassies in Rome and Pretoria, Gustav Mahler´s house in Kaliste or Czech House in Malmö. His work has been included into permanent design collections in museums in the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><br />
<u>DOX Partners:<br />
</u>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</p>
<p>The DOX programme is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><u>DOX Media Partners:<br />
</u>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p> </p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Exhibition space<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.dox.cz<br />
<strong>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Prague 7</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for media<br />
</span>Michaela Šilpochová<br />
</strong>T: +420 774 222 355<br />
E: media@dox.cz<br />
</p>
2011/10/05 - HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE: The Road
<p><strong>Press Release / 5 October 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">HUGHIE O’DONOGHUE: The Road</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(6 October – 12 December 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents The Road, an exhibition by one of Ireland’s leading artists Hughie O’Donoghue. After a successful premiere at Galway Arts Festival, Ireland, in July 2011, the exhibition at DOX will feature the monumental painting, Tomb of the Diver coupled with new works and Road, a painting in 48 parts. Complementing these are selected paintings, which elaborate on the theme of the road as metaphor.</strong></p>
<p>The <i>Road</i> brings together Hughie O‘Donoghue’s selected paintings, which attempt to embody the creative process of remembering and seek out images which evoke deep memories. The idea of how we remember, rather than memory itself, has been at the core of O’Donoghue’s work for the last 15 years.</p>
<p>The main cycle <i>Road </i>is to a significant degree an archival project, drawing on a wealth of historical documentation, much of it of an immediate personal nature. The subject of the cycle is the reconstructed travels of one individual (the artist’s father) during the Second World War. The Road is a symbol of the journey, the home and family left behind, the venture into the unknown. O’Donoghue is trying to define experience as exemplary, to find in the particular history of an individual a reflection of what is common to whole populations and to humans as beings.</p>
<p>The paintings of the<i> Diver </i>series are part of a group of works which remake a painting from antiquity (<i>Tomb of the Diver </i>circa BC 480, Archaeological Museum Paestum, Italy). In <i>Tomb of the Diver</i> a plunging figure is held in a resinous golden column like a volcanic eruption above the ruins of a devastated town. The painting simultaneously evokes associations with the diving figures from the World Trade Center of September 11.<br />
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The paintings themselves can resemble archaeological excavations, richly textured and coloured, built up in successive layers of white lead oil paint, the corrections and alterations made in the process, recording their evolution. As well as the painted image the artist has frequently incorporated photographic source material, both archival and images taken by himself. These have been absorbed into the matrix of the painted surface in a technical process invented for the purpose, so that this photographic information might form one or two layers among as many as twenty in the finished painting.</p>
<p><i>The Road </i>is supported by Culture Ireland and will be on display at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art until 12 December, 2011.</p>
<p><strong>Hughie O’Donoghue </strong>was born in Manchester, England and studied drawing and painting at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He lives and works in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland and in Greenwich, London. In 2009 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy, London. Hughie O’Donoghue's work has been exhibited widely in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Australia, and the USA.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying Event:</strong><br />
On 8th October 2011, Hughie O’Donoghue will give a talk about his work at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. More information at www.dox.cz</p>
<p> </p>
<p><u>Exhibition Partners:<br />
</u>Embassy of Ireland, Galway Arts Festival, Culture Ireland, The Arts Council, Fáilte Ireland, Absolut vodka, NUI Galway</p>
<p><u>DOX Partners: <br />
</u>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><u>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</u>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p> <br />
<strong>CONTACTS:</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Exhibition space<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.dox.cz<br />
<strong>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Prague 7</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for media<br />
</span>Michaela Šilpochová<br />
</strong>T: +420 774 222 355<br />
E: media@dox.cz<br />
</p>
2011/10/14 - THE LUCIFER EFFECT: Encountering Evil
<p><strong>Press Release / 13 October 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">THE LUCIFER EFFECT: Encountering Evil</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(14 October 2011 – 2 January 2012)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Lucifer Effect exhibition at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, inspired by the book of the same title by leading American psychologist Philip Zimbardo, aims to show how people can turn evil with surprisingly little effort. Installations, videos, grafitti, photographs and other works by artists such as Jenny Holzer, Hans Haacke, Artur Żmijewski and the Czech artist Magdalena Jetelová, deal with issues of power, authority and corruption. </strong></p>
<p>The ease with which one can fail morally is illustrated by the landmark psychology experiments conducted at American universities in the 1960s and 70s and whose artistic reconstructions in the works of Rod Dickinson and Artur Żmijewski constitute the opening part of the exhibition.</p>
<p>Works by artists such as Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Harun Farocki, Antoni Muntadas or the Bureau d’études group, demonstrate the general principle that power corrupts. On the other hand, artists such as Krzysztof Wodiczko, empower the disenfranchised and powerless by giving them a voice in public space Selected works by Czech artists, like an extensive installation by Magdalena Jetelová, reflect the contentious issues of contemporary Czech society, such as corruption and the relation between politics and organized crime.</p>
<p>The exhibition includes a large installation <i>The Art of Not Being Governed Like That </i>that represents a response to the Stuttgart 21 development, organized by a group of German artists, architects and theoreticians, originally presented at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011.</p>
<p>The exhibition also introduces to the Czech public <strong>Philip Zimbardo’s</strong> <i>Heroic Imagination Project</i>, the aim of which is to inspire and prepare “ordinary” people for the role of “heroes in-waiting” and which documents cases of unexpected heroic deeds in extreme situations. According to Zimbardo, an exemplary case embodying the concept of heroic imagination is Václav Havel.</p>
<p>The exhibition also features <a href="http://www.dox.cz/en/news?85">an open call addressed to the public and artists</a>, whose selected contributions will complement the project. More info at <a href="http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibition?75/about">www.dox.cz</a> and <a href="http://lucifereffect.dox.cz">http://lucifereffect.dox.cz</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying Events:<br />
</strong>Regular interviews with representatives of different fields – politicians, activists, artists, psychologists, sociologists and other professionals – will take place during the exhibition.<br />
More at www.dox.cz</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition Curated by:</strong> Jaroslav Anděl<br />
<strong>Exhibiting Artists:</strong> Bureau d'études, Rod Dickinson, Harun Farocki, Gold Extra, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Antoni Muntadas, Ole-Magnus Saxegård, Jens M. Stober, János Sugár, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Artur Żmijewski, Magdalena Jetelová, Artists Anonymous<br />
Richard Cortés, Zdena Kolečková, Milan Kozelka, István Léko, Jan Mlčoch, Pode Bal, Hans D. Christ, Yvonne P. Doderer, Iris Dressler, Stephan Köperl, Sylvia Winkler</p>
<p><br />
<u>Exhibition Partners:<br />
</u>Karel Janeček, U.S. Embassy Prague</p>
<p><u>Exhibition Media Partners:<br />
</u>Respekt, Česká pozice, Rail Reklam</p>
<p><u>DOX Partners: <br />
</u>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><u>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</u>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Exhibition space<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.dox.cz<br />
<strong>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Prague 7</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for media<br />
</span>Michaela Šilpochová<br />
</strong>T: +420 774 222 355<br />
E: media@dox.cz<br />
</p>
2011/06/01 - TRANSPARENCY NATION
<p><strong>Press Release / 1. 6. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">TRANSPARENCY NATION <br />
<br />
</span></strong><strong>(2. 6. – 30. 6. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Studio of Glass of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague presents the selection of the best student works at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. The Studio led by Academic Sculptor Rony Plesl has prepared an exhibition of objects introducing to the visitors the phenomenon of glass and the plethora of possibilities this material offers to the designers.</strong></p>
<p>The Transparency Nation exhibition is a unique presentation of different approaches to work with glass. Sixteen students including five interns as well as the Head of the Studio Rony Plesl and his assistants display objects which differ in size, form, and function, and always share one major feature – transparency. <br />
<i>“Glass has seen a huge technological and related aesthetic development. The Studio of Glass has responded to this tendency to enhance the strong artistic and handicraft tradition with a greater emphasis on the current approach to the visual art and design. Glass is a unique and remarkable phenomenon and material especially in the Czech Republic, indeed, but it is not a panacea as one can see on many levels of glass education, industry as well as artistic activities,”</i> says Rony Plesl, Head of the Studio of Glass.</p>
<p>The major part introduces students free works whereas the other part of the project, on sale exhibition presented at the <strong>DOX by Qubus designshop</strong>, is focusing on applied artefacts produced with the assistance of Czech glass factories Ajeto, Janštejn, and Kavalier. The visitors thus have a unique opportunity to purchase works by young Czech designers. Both parts of the exhibition mutually complement each other and overlap offering a complex view of the current glass.</p>
<p>The exhibition title – Transparency Nation – refers to the transparent, simple, straightforward, clean, uncorrupt, pervasive, translucent, diffusive, visible, and well-arranged. These synonyms express an ideological concept of the exhibition, but on the other hand they also paraphrase the direction followed by the Studio of Glass of the AAAD. The Studio aims to follow the way of creative design transcending to a conceptual approach from which one can cross to any artistic discipline. <i>“Point, line, space, ground plan, horizon, contour, material, and above all light – these are formal borders and guideposts of all the authors. The use of new, mainly transparent materials as well as new technologies to create a strong emotional and aesthetic experience will be preferred to traditional glass-making methods,”</i> Rony Plesl described the direction followed by the students during their work.</p>
<p>Czech designer <strong>Rony Plesl </strong>(1965) graduated from the AAAD in 1990. He is an internationally recognized and respected artist, whose glass objects occupy a pre-eminent position in art collections in Germany, USA, the Netherlands or Japan. He regularly displays his work at exhibitions abroad. His work can be also seen in the interior of the Bellevue Restaurant in Prague. Since 2008 he has been the Head of the Studio of Glass at the AAAD in Prague.</p>
<p><strong>Publication<br />
</strong>The AAAD has published a catalogue of the exhibition which introduces the work of all the authors and can be considered a manifesto of the Studio of Glass.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying programme<br />
</strong>5 June at 2 pm / Exhibition guided tour by Rony Plesl<br />
15 June at 6 pm / The Design Interview series: Rony Plesl<br />
Reservations at: tereza@dox.cz</p>
<p><br />
More at <strong>www.dox.cz </strong>or <strong>www.vsup.cz </strong></p>
<p>Pictures can be downloaded from <strong>www.mediareport.cz</strong></p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners<br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, the Capital City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., <br />
Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>Media partners<br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>CONTACT:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</span>Office address <br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
T: +420 224 930 927, E: info@dox.cz <br />
<strong>Exhibition room<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors: <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o., www.mediareport.cz<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong>, T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz nebo media@dox.cz</p>
<p> </p>
2011/05/17 - TIBET - LANDSCAPE OF MYTHS AND LEGENDS: Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar
<p><strong>Press Release / 17. 5. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Tibet – Landscape of Myths and Legends<br />
Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar<br />
<br />
</span>(18. 5. – 30. 6.)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague-Holešovice presents Jaroslav Poncar’s panoramic photographs from western Tibet. The exhibition accompanies a series of workshops and lectures by Tibetan monks from the monastery in exile at Menri. </strong></p>
<p>Jaroslav Poncar’s panoramic photographs take the viewer to the very heart of the remote and wild landscape of western Tibet, to places around the sacred mountain of Kailash, an area inhabited by nomadic shepherds and their herds as well as wild animals and invisible beings from the parallel worlds of gods, spirits and demons. Bon, the original Tibetan religion before the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet, was born here. The realm of Zhang Zhung once spread through winding river canyons as well as over open plateaus. Although it ceased to exist as an entity in the 8th century AD and Bon struggled for survival in competition with Buddhism, the Bon masters managed to protect their teaching and knowledge and passed it on, from teacher to pupil, thus preserving its tradition to this day.</p>
<p>The exhibition at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art accompanies a <i><strong>series of workshops and lectures entitled Bon – the Earliest Source of Tibetan Culture</strong></i> with Tibetan monks who have come to the Czech Republic especially to give them. <br />
A group of Tibetan monks from the monastery in exile at Menri, India, a centre of the Bon tradition will introduce, together with Czech experts, the history and teachings of Bon, a school of thought deeply embedded in Tibetan culture, in a series of workshops and talks. Participants will experience the rituals of cham masked dances and the production and use of ritual objects, as well as learning about the most important figures in Bon, their iconography and many other aspects of this tradition. <br />
The proceeds will be used to finance the construction of a polyclinic in the Dölpo region, Nepal.</p>
<p>The exhibition comprises an installation of the traditional lungt prayer flags made of recycled glass. The installation of recycled bottle glass, entitled Recycle for Tibet, was created by <strong>Dagmar Štrosová</strong>. It echoes a core tenet of Tibetan Buddhism, the ephemerality and changeability of things. Original lungt prayer flags contain holy writings and mantras and are hung by Buddhists in sacred places, in order to have their message spread by the blowing of the lung wind.</p>
<p><strong>Jaroslav Poncar </strong>was born 1945 in Prague. He has lived in Cologne since 1973 where he has been teaching at Fachhochschule Köln.His photographic projects took him to Africa, Arabia and to Asia, especially to the Himalayas, Tibet, India and Cambodia. In 1976 he took for the first time the antique Russian FT-2 - panoramatic camera - to the Western Himalayas and since that time he specialized on panoramic photography.<br />
</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Accompanying programme: </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Series of lectures and workshops </strong><i><strong>Bon: the Earliest Source of Tibetan Culture<br />
</strong></i><br />
May 18, 6 pm / What is Bon and where it comes from<br />
May 19, 6 pm / Teaching of the Bon tradition, its sacred sites and pilgrimages <br />
May 20, 6 pm / Tibetan medicine and astrology according to the Bon tradition<br />
May 21, 10 am – 12 am / 1 pm – 4 pm / A day-long workshop providing insight into life in the Menri monastery <br />
May 22, 10 am – 12 am / 1 pm – 4 pm / A day-long workshop devoted to cham masked dances and ritual costumes <br />
May 23, 6 pm / Work with the mind and its influence on the mental and physical health and harmonious life of the individual and society<br />
May 25, 6 pm / Gala closing – Festival ritual of the monks of the Menri monastery<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">The programme will be held in English with simultaneous translation to Czech. </span></p>
<p>Lectures in Czech:<br />
<br />
May 26, 6 pm / Lecture by Daniel Berounský: The Relationship between Bon and Buddhism in Tibetan Culture<br />
May 30, 6 pm / Lecture by Zuzana Ondomišiová: The Bon Realm of Zhang Zhung – Imprints in the Sacred Tibetan Landscape<br />
June 6, 6 pm / Lecture by Ľubomír Sklenka: The Menri monastery – centre of Bon in India <br />
June 13, 6 pm / Lecture by Zuzana Ondomišiová: The sacred Mountain of Kailash – centre of the world and universe <br />
June 16, 6 pm / Tibet in film – the possibilities and ways of documentary and fiction to show and interpret Tibet, its culture and history</p>
<p> </p>
<p>More information at www.dox.cz<br />
Reservations at <u>tereza@dox.cz</u></p>
<p><strong>The exhibition and workshops are organized by:<br />
</strong>Potala, o. s., Bezejmenná čajovna, centrum DOX<br />
<br />
<strong>Exhibition Partners:<br />
</strong>City of Prague, Maitrea, a. s., Emeldi Software Services, s.r.o., Nadace Forum 2000, Divadlo Archa, o. p. s., JIŠA s. r. o., CK Livingstone, s. r. o.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: info@dox.cz or media@dox.cz<br />
Exhibition room <br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<a href="http://www.mediareport.cz">www.mediareport.cz</a><br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová, <br />
</strong>T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz or media@dox.cz</p>
<p><br />
</p>
2011/05/13 - FEDERICO DÍAZ: outside itself
<p><strong>Press release / 13. 5. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">FEDERICO DÍAZ: outside itself</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Interactive installation assembled by robotic machines and untouched by human hands from concept to materialization.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia Curated by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center founder Alanna Heiss, and selected by the Biennial’s Board and ILLUMInations Director Bice Curiger<br />
<br />
Venezia / Arsenale Novissimo / Nappa 90 <br />
04.06.30.09.2011 <br />
Preview: June 1 from 5 pm <br />
Opening: June 4 from 6 pm</strong></p>
<p><strong>Outside itself was nominated by DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.<br />
<br />
Federico Díaz</strong>, acclaimed Prague-based artist, is creating a self- replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data for la Biennale di Venezia 2011 that gives new meaning to the term “going viral.” The installation, curated by P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center founder Alanna Heiss, and selected by the Biennial’s Board and ILLUMInations Director Bice Curiger, will premiere as a Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Díaz’s outside itself project is an interactive, mathematically-programmed, robotically-produced, light-responsive installation that grows and morphs as a life force onto itself. The installation will be on view Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 6pm, June 4 through September 30, 2011, as preceded by a preview June 1 at 5pm and official opening June 4 at 6pm. Admission is free and open to the public. outside itself is being presented at Nappa 90 within Arsenale Novissimo in the northern section of the main Arsenale and is easily accessible from the Giardini. For detailed directions see below or visit <u><a href="http://www.outsideitself.org">www.outsideitself.org</a></u>.<br />
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Imagine thousands of black spheres being created and morphing according to changes in ambient light generated by the fluid interactivity of viewers from across the globe. The balls will be fabricated and assembled by two precisely-calibrated robots into an exponentially-shifting composition. Each ball will represent an individual “photon.” Optical sensors will monitor the available light at the site, creating a data stream that reigns the robots. The surrounding light will be affected not only by the passage of time from day to night, but by the number of viewers surrounding the installation, their movements, and even the color of their clothing.<br />
<br />
Although Federico Díaz’s installation is produced free from the touch of human hands, it will thus be completely interactive. The mathematical program enables the two robots to build and, together, arrange about 2,000 of the 5-centimeter-diameter balls every 12 hours, completing a large, continuously morphing construction over a period of several months. Together, viewers of all ages and nationalities will influence the sculpture’s ultimate form in this work of “Light” and “Nations” on the occasion of the 54th Biennale, titled ILLUMInations.<br />
<br />
Curator Alanna Heiss comments,<i> “Federico’s work embraces new and alternate ways of creating and communicating, and I imagine that five years from now, he will be seen as a visionary within the art world.”<br />
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</i>The outside itself installation is an evolution of the work that Díaz created for MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, Mass, U.S. in late 2010. His Geometric Death Frequency-141 installation in the museum’s courtyard also consisted of black spheres that were milled and assembled by robots into the semblance of a rolling wave confined by the boundaries of a non- existent 50-foot-long, 20-foot high tank. The data used to create and position the spheres was generated from a digital photograph of the museum’s clock-tower entry. A three-dimensional rendering of the digital data, the undulating sculpture “splashed” the spheres as high as the museum’s second story. MASS MoCA Director Joseph C. Thompson aptly calls Díaz, “the ultimate shape-shifter.”<br />
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Díaz’s project for la Biennale di Venezia’s ILLUMInations takes this cutting-edge concept one step further by adding interactivity. The shape and composition of the outside itself installation will be in direct response to its immediate surroundings. Like an infinitely adaptable organism, or society itself, it will constantly reflect its environment. For Díaz, the robot is like a “stretched hand of our senses,” that extends human ability beyond the limitations of the body, in the same way that society now uses technology to simulate or stimulate experience, or to create “social networks.” Technology is relied upon to communicate and achieve what the body cannot—to go beyond, to go “outside” of oneself.<br />
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Federico Díaz lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. He has shown in international exhibitions at institutions including: Institute of Contemporary Arts/ ICA, London, UK (2005); Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK (2000); Algorithmic Revolution at ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (2004); Fondation Electricité de France, Paris, France (2003); Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria (2005); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2005), among others.<br />
<br />
He has received the Milano Europe, Futuro Presente 2001 special award for his engaging <i>Generatrix</i>, and the Florence Biennial’s 2007 Premio Internazionale “Lorenzo il Magnifico” in the new media category for his <i>Sakura</i> project (2005). In the U.S., Díaz’s installation <i>Ultra</i> was the first presented in 2008 for the MOMA/ PS.1 exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach. Most recently, Federico Díaz was selected to represent the Czech Pavillion at the 2010 EXPO Shanghai where he presented <i>LacrimAu</i>, an interactive, scensory-monitoring installation featuring a 24K gold sculpture of a human tear. Federico Díaz’s <i>Geometric Death Frequency—141 </i>remains on view at MASS MoCA in the U.S. through Spring 2012.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">MEDIA CONTACT: <br />
</span>Concetta Duncan</strong>, FITZ & CO, New York <br />
T: +1 212 627 1455 x232 <br />
E: <a href="mailto:concetta@fitzandco.com">concetta@fitzandco.com</a><br />
<br />
For more information about Federico Díaz and Outside Itself, or to download a detailed map and directions to the installation, please visit <u><a href="http://www.outsideitsel.org">www.outsideitself.org</a></u>.<br />
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</p>
2011/05/11 May and June at DOX
<p><strong>Press Release / 11. 05. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">May and June at DOX</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague-Holešovice presents, in the coming weeks, three extraordinary exhibitions alongside Petr Kvíčala’s Sight-Specific show and a selection of Alžběta Jungrová’s photographs from the book Blue Light Tonite. <br />
From mid-May the centre will host Jaroslav Poncar’s panoramic photographs from western Tibet. The exhibition accompanies a series of workshops and lectures by Tibetan monks. The Glass Department of the VŠUP (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design), headed by academic Ssulptor Rony Plesl, will present their latest work in June. From mid-June until mid-September DOX will host the Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art exhibition, introducing the work of major contemporary artists. </strong></p>
<p><strong>• Tibet – Landscape of Myths and Legends<br />
Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar (18. 5. – 30. 6.)<br />
• Transparency Nation (2. 6. – 30. 6.) <br />
• Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art (16. 6. - 12. 9.) </strong></p>
<p><br />
<strong>Jaroslav Poncar’s </strong>panoramic photographs take the viewer to the very heart of the remote and wild landscape of western Tibet, to places around the sacred mountain of Kailash, an area inhabited by nomadic shepherds and their herds as well as wild animals and invisible beings from the parallel worlds of gods, spirits and demons. Bon, the original Tibetan religion before the arrival of Buddhism in Tibet, was born here. The exhibition at DOX accompanies a series of workshops and talks entitled Bon – the Earliest Source of Tibetan Culture with Tibetan monks.</p>
<p><strong>The Department of Glass </strong>of the the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, headed by academic sculptor Rony Plesl, will present their latest work at the <strong>Transparency Nation </strong>exhibition, tailored to the premises of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition will comprise design series made in collaboration with leading Czech glass producers and will be accompanied by a catalogue, something of a departmental manifesto. The relationship between a work of art and a space is a subject that will bring together the individual approaches of students and teachers from the Department of Glass. A point, a line, space, layout, horizon, outline, material and, in particular, light: these are the limits of form and guidelines for those exhibiting. The use of new, chiefly transparent, materials and technologies intended to trigger a strong emotional and aesthetic experiential response will be the main subject of the show.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>As the highlight of the season DOX will present the <strong>Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art</strong> exhibition, held in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, where it can be viewed until 22 May 2011. Rudolf Steiner is generally considered one of the most influential and, at the same time, one of the most controversial thinkers of the 20th century. A philosopher, architect, sociologist, humanist and visionary, Steiner was also the founder of anthroposophy. <br />
The exhibition lays emphasis upon the importance of the quest for spiritual meaning in a world in which systems both economic and ecological are under long-term threat. Steiner’s universalist worldview is especially stimulating in this respect. The project, involving over 70 exhibits, is an intersection at which major contemporary artists such as <strong>Joseph Beuys</strong>, <strong>Mario Merz</strong>, <strong>Giuseppe Penone</strong>, <strong>Anish Kapoor</strong>, <strong>Olafur Eliasson</strong>, <strong>Tony Cragg</strong>, <strong>Helmut Federle</strong>, <strong>Spencer Finch</strong>, <strong>Katharina Grosse</strong>, <strong>Carsten Nicolai</strong>, <strong>Meris Angioletti</strong>, <strong>Manuel Graf </strong>and <strong>Simon Dybbroe </strong>Moller meet. Rudolf Steiner is represented at the exhibition by a selection of his drawings. <br />
The Rudolf Steiner show, organised in Prague in collaboration with the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, highlights the Czech context through the incorporation of Karel Malich’s work, as well as through the exhibition <strong>Thinking without Limits: Inspired by Rudolf Steiner</strong>, prepared by DOX.<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Accompanying programme:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Petr Kvíčala: Sight-Specific<br />
</strong>June 9, 6 pm / guided tour with the author</p>
<p><strong>Tibet – Landscape of Myths and Legends<br />
Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar <br />
</strong>Series of workshops and lectures <i>Bon – the Earliest Source of Tibetan Culture:</i></p>
<p>May 18, 6 pm / What is Bon and where it comes from<br />
<br />
May 19, 6 pm / Teaching of the Bon tradition, its sacred sites and pilgrimages <br />
<br />
May 20, 6 pm / Tibetan medicine and astrology according to the Bon tradition<br />
<br />
May 21, 10 am – 12 am / 1 pm – 4 pm / A day-long workshop providing insight into life in the Menri monastery <br />
<br />
May 22, 10 am – 12 am / 1 pm – 4 pm / A day-long workshop devoted to cham masked dances and ritual costumes <br />
<br />
May 23, 6 pm / Work with the mind and its influence on the mental and physical health and harmonious life of the individual and society<br />
<br />
May 25, 6 pm / Gala closing – Festival ritual of the monks of the Menri monastery<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">The programme will be held in English with simultaneous translation to Czech. </span></p>
<p><strong>Lectures in Czech: <br />
</strong><br />
May 26, 6 pm / Lecture by Daniel Berounský: The Relationship between Bon and Buddhism in Tibetan Culture<br />
<br />
May 30, 6 pm / Lecture by Zuzana Ondomišiová: The Bon Realm of Zhang Zhung – Imprints in the Sacred Tibetan Landscape<br />
<br />
June 6, 6 pm / Lecture by Ľubomír Sklenka: The Menri monastery – centre of Bon in India <br />
<br />
June 13, 6 pm / Lecture by Zuzana Ondomišiová: The sacred Mountain of Kailash – centre of the world and universe <br />
<br />
June 16, 6 pm / Tibet in film – the possibilities and ways of documentary and fiction to show and interpret Tibet, its culture and history</p>
<p><strong>Transparency Nation<br />
</strong>June 5, 2 pm / guided tour with Rony Plesl<br />
June 15, 6 pm / Rony Plesl at the Design Interview cycle</p>
<p><strong>Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art<br />
</strong>June 27, 6 pm / Discussion „Spiritual“ in art: a gap in history?</p>
<p><strong>Special projects:</strong></p>
<p>June 23, 6 pm / Lecture by <strong>Michael Kimmelman </strong>/ Famous art critic and New York Times contributor at DOX<br />
<br />
June 6, 8 pm / <strong>VISUAL MANUAL </strong>/ Presentation of young artists<br />
<br />
More information at: <u>www.dox.cz<br />
</u>Reservations at: <u>tereza@dox.cz</u></p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX programme is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: info@dox.cz or media@dox.cz<br />
<strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors</span></strong> <br />
Mediareport, s.r.o. <br />
<a href="http://www.mediareport.cz">www.mediareport.cz</a><br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová <br />
</strong>T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz or media@dox.cz</p>
<p><br />
</p>
2011/04/28 - ALŽBĚTA JUNGROVÁ: Blue Light Tonite
<p><strong>Press Release / 28. 4. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Alžběta Jungrová: Blue Light Tonite</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(29. 4. - 6. 6. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of photographs by Alžběta Jungrová called Blue Light Tonite. The exhibition at DOX presents a selection of 24 photographs from the total number of 57 published in the book with the same name. </strong></p>
<p>The title of this exhibition of photographs and the recently published book is taken from the text message “BL TONITE?”, which used to be popular with regulars at the Blue Light bar in Prague. The project has resulted in a series of photographs of these people, some of them well known, others less so. The pictures document the magical atmosphere of this bar in the Lesser Quarter, where visitors have scratched their names into the brown walls and ceilings for the last two decades.<br />
Initially the photographs were documentary, but one time Jiří Macháček erected a structure made out of barstools on the bar, and then lay down on it and started licking the light bulb hanging over the bar. For the authors of the project – architect Vít Máslo and a photographer Alžběta Jungrová - that was a sign to start making the portraits more stylised, sometimes dressing the subjects up in costumes and using make up. The result is a diverse mixture of portraits of people who have intersected in the time and space of this bar in Prague. Stories lie behind some of the photographs, while others are based on the atmosphere or magic of the moment.</p>
<p><i>“The original idea was to take studio portraits of several dozen friends and acquaintances we meet in the bar, but that was soon abandoned in favour of photographing everything at the Blue Light with no extra lighting and mostly in the afternoon, before the bar opened. A list of people to be portrayed was quickly drawn up, but over time it was altered. For a variety of reasons we didn’t photograph many of those we’d initially included on the “Blue List”, and we added other people we hadn’t originally counted on,“</i> explains <strong>Vít Máslo</strong>, co-author of the project.</p>
<p>There were also many people who would have been part of the selection, but the authors weren’t able to photograph them – such as the Romanian flower woman who’s been selling flowers in the bar, the Prague restaurant owner Nils Jebens, the actor Jiří Langmajer, Glen Emery – the Prague-based Canadian author of “Thirsty Dogs” or Janka Kellerová. And eventually the authors had to stop taking pictures. When making the selection it was important that Alžběta and Vít agreed on the person portrayed. So you can find Pepa the dustman, who’s been carrying trash out of the bar for the last fifteen years, alongside the Czech Foreign Minister, Karel Schwarzenberg. Several people collaborated on this project, from the owner of the Blue Light bar, Franta Ludačka to Ivan Zachariáš or Aleš Najbrt, who gave the project its graphic look.</p>
<p><strong>Alžběta Jungrová <br />
</strong>Alžběta Jungrová’s interest in the stories of people’s lives has led her to documentary and reportage photography. She travels all over the world in order to find non-traditional subjects. She has waded through the largest dump heap in Cambodia and through oil mud of the ship-breaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh; she has taken photographs of armed children and civilians in the Gaza Strip and junkies on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and spent days with the Nukak tribe in the Colombian jungle. <br />
Alžběta Jungrová was awarded a honorary prize at the Czech Press Photo competition in 2008 for her reportage about drugs on the Pakistani-Afghan border, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Prize for a series of photographs of children working in a brick factory in Peshawar, Pakistan. She received the prize again in 2009 for a series of photographs from a Burmese refugee camp in Bangladesh.</p>
<p><strong>For current accompanying programme </strong>please follow the website <a href="http://www.dox.cz">www.dox.cz</a><br />
Programs to the exhibitions usually take place on Mondays and Thursdays.<br />
<br />
<strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. <br />
<br />
<strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar<br />
<br />
<strong>Partners of the Project:<br />
</strong>CMC Architects, Engine, Konsepti, Blue Light, Studio Najbrt, Ivan Zachariáš, <br />
JC Decaux</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: info@dox.cz or media@dox.cz<br />
<strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o., www.mediareport.cz<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong> <br />
T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz or media@dox.cz</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz<br />
</u> </p>
2011/21/04 - PETR KVÍČALA: Sight- Specific
<p><strong>Press Release / 21. 4. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Petr Kvíčala: Sight-Specific</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(22. 4. - 20. 6. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition of Petr Kvíčala Sight-Specific. The exhibition will have two parts: a selection of his painting cycles from past two years and a monumental Zig Zag Corridor painting on the walls of the 22 metres long ramp between the exhibition space and the Café.</strong></p>
<p>The essence of <strong>Petr Kvíčala’s </strong>paintings is an abstract linear ornament, the logic of its development and an investigation of the optical effects produced by such paintings. The first part of the exhibition shown in the tower presents a choice of author´s paintings. In contrast with his earlier work, where the artist emphasised a subjective style, these new paintings are shaped by the use of overlapping bands. They are more precise, and resemble digital works with their clearly defined blocks with sharp edges. The surface of a painting evokes modern architecture or computer graphics guided by an algorithm expressible in mathematics. For the most part the viewer cannot detect the specific ordering principle, but is aware of its presence in the visual effect of these compositions.</p>
<p>The second part of the exhibition is an artwork demonstrating the “sight-specific” properties of Kvíčala’s works for architecture. Zig Zag Corridor is based on a series of paintings that Kvíčala has produced since 2003. The essence is an extended line that turns at right angles. We can read the painting produced by this line in two ways. Looking at it straight on, we see the line twisting at right angles; looking at it from the side the line blends into the surface from a particular angle and creates vertical zigzagging “roads”. This Kvíčala’s latest work, has been produced for a 22-metre long corridor with a sloping floor. The painting not only modifies the character of the architecture, but it dynamically changes depending on the viewer’s position and motion.<br />
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<i>“Petr Kvíčala is among those lucky artists whose output works at several levels. It is rooted in a long-term programme of abstract painting, yet it is also visually appealing. It blends a conceptual approach and sensory attractiveness,“ </i>comments <strong>Tomáš Pospiszyl</strong>, the exhibition curator.</p>
<p>Petr Kvíčala was born in 1960. He has centred upon ornament since the mid-1980’s. The basic elements of his visual language are ornamental lines such as wavy lines, zigzag lines and loops that he combines, multiplies and arranges into overlaps and layers. The rhythmical segmentation and repetition of lines and areas refer to prehistoric art and folk ornament, as well as to classic modernism and contemporary abstract art. Petr Kvíčala’s oeuvre comprises procesual art as well as monochromes and installations. The year 1995 marked the artist’s first intervention into architecture, resulting in a large series of art projects in architecture, a subject that has remained in the spotlight of his professional interest to this day. Petr Kvíčala has lectured at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology (VUT) since 1994 where he heads an art department.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying programme:<br />
</strong>2 May at 6 pm - guided tour with the curator Tomáš Pospiszyl<br />
9 June at 6 pm - guided tour with the author Petr Kvíčala<br />
More information at <u>www.dox.cz</u></p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: <u>info@dox.cz</u> or <u>media@dox.cz<br />
</u><strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o., <u>www.mediareport.cz<br />
</u><strong>Terezie Kaslová, <br />
</strong>T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: <u>kaslova@mediareport.cz</u> or <u>media@dox.cz</u></p>
<p> </p>
2011/04/01 - JIRKA KOLAR: Williamsburg
<p><strong>Press Release / 31. 3. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">JIRKA KOLAR: Williamsburg</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(1. 4. – 18. 4. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><br />
<strong>Jirka Kolar is a Czech artist who emigrated to America from former Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s. The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents a part his work between years 2009 – 2011. Twenty large format prints from the Williamsburg cycle are named after a part of New York, where the author lives. <br />
<br />
</strong></p>
<p>The well-known Czech art critic Jindřich Chalupecký believed that artists cannot thrive in emigration. This view is contradicted by the fact that a number of important artists such as Kupka, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Giacometti, and Picasso achieved their artistic maturity only when they left their native country. This is even more true in the period of globalization when a growing group of artists find their artistic identity elsewhere than in their country of origin. One of them is <strong>Jirka Kolar</strong>, a Czech who has settled in a New York neighborhood called Williamsburg. In New York, he has developed his own way of working with the medium of photography. Kolar makes manual alterations to his photographs, most often by scratching and painting on the print and then digitally processing it, usually by having it scanned and enlarged to the required size.</p>
<p><br />
With his hybrid technique Kolar has aligned himself with many other artists who combine various media in different ways. His “photographs” (if we can call them that) also evoke practices that have been used throughout the history of the photographic medium such as retouching and colouring, which have been the most visible manifestation of the dialogue between photography and painting. The main strategy of the artist is to harness the tension between surface and depth, notably between the surface of the print, whose presence is heightened by manual interventions, and the photographic illusion of depth. For much of the history of modern painting, exploiting the tension between flatness and depth was a key strategy. That´s why Kolar´s work manifests a specific kind of contradiction between the modernistic stress on flatness on one hand and the postmodern impulse to hybridize the medium on the other. The artist uses the tension between surface and depth intuitively depending on chosen subject matter – differently for portraits, for city scenes or for cityscapes.</p>
<p>Kolar’s work has an element of nostalgia, a retrospective aspect that is an integral part of the perception of photography and stands in contrast to the modernist emphasis on progress and the future. This characteristic stands out most in his photographs of New York. Grim sceneries of New York streets evoke timelessness. Seeming carelessness and rapidity of his interventions create a specific feel of improvization. Unfinished surafces, lines and objects are opened for various interpretations and meanings.<br />
<br />
<strong>For current accompanying programs </strong>please folow the website <u>www.dox.cz<br />
</u>Programs to the exhibitions usually take place on Mondays and Thursdays.<br />
<br />
<strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: <u>info@dox.cz</u> or <u>media@dox.cz<br />
</u><strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors</span></strong> <br />
Mediareport, s.r.o., <u>www.mediareport.cz<br />
</u><strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong> <br />
T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: <u>kaslova@mediareport.cz</u> or <u>media@dox.cz</u></p>
<p> </p>
2011/03/24 - BigMag: Other Magazines in the Czech Republic after 1989
<p><strong>Press Release / 23. 3. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">BigMag: Other magazines in the Czech Republic after 1989</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>(24. 3. - 25. 4. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The BigMag exhibition at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents the most interesting of Czech "alternative" magazines from the years 1989-2011.</strong></p>
<p>The exhibition builds upon the user-generated database at <u>www.bigmag.cz</u>. The database allows for an easy orientation in a wide range of post-Velvet Revolution alternative magazines and it archives them digitally; the exhibition provides a chance for the unique physical encounter with a selection of these. The founders and curators of the project are Aleš Najbrt, Bohumil Vašák, both from the Prague’s leading graphic design studio, Studio Najbrt and Michal Nanoru, former editor-in-chief of Živel magazine.</p>
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<p><i>“BigMag is a showcase of magazines which operate at the margins of the publishing mainstream and beyond, always in that territory where the motivation is not profit but self-expression. Although they are part of popular culture, they do cast a vote for being different and often stand, at least partly, in opposition, even if only on aesthetics terms. In the times of coolhunters the terms ‘alternative’, ‘independent’ and ‘noncommercial’ become so problematic that the curators’ selection is more characterized by an attempt to capture the rare thrill of crossing conventions of genre.</i></p>
<p><i>In the Czech milieu a survey of ‘other’ magazines and their involvement in dialogue over time and ideology necessarily brings to light attempts to come to terms with the new definitions brought by the adoption of late capitalism. Magazine is always a snapshot of ideals, policies and trends, and as opposed to the graphically prim newspapers or deceptive photographs, it conjures up the time and place of its origin. Before you have read a single line you will have learned as much about the past twenty-two years in the Czech Republic from BigMag as if you had been browsing through the country´s family album," </i>says Nanoru in introductory text.</p>
<p><i>"We know that the magazine format as a compromise between time (recency) and space (for flight of creativity) was for some hundred years the forefront of visuality, the testing ground of future trends and an accelerator (and now a conserver) of the zeitgeist. If this should be the case in the future, is the question we want to find answer for with this project," </i>the authors add.</p>
<p><br />
<u><strong>Program accompanying the exhibition <br />
</strong></u><strong>BigMag Day, 14 April, 4-8pm<br />
</strong>4pm Komfort Mag performance<br />
5pm Guided tour with curators<br />
6pm Discussion „Other Magazines 2011“</p>
<p>Other guided tours with DOX lecturer can be booked upon request in English, German, French, Italian and Norwegian.</p>
<p>More information at <u>www.dox.cz<br />
</u><br />
<strong>DOX Partners:</strong> <br />
Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners:</strong> <br />
Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar <br />
<br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</span>Office address <br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
T: +420 295 568 111<br />
E: <u>info@dox.cz</u> or <u>media@dox.cz<br />
</u><strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for journalists<br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: <u>kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@dox.cz</u></p>
<p><br />
</p>
2011/02/10 - Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail
<p><strong>Press Release / 9. 2. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">MARTIN PARR: Assorted Cocktail<br />
(10. 2. – 16. 5. 2011)</span></strong></p>
<p><br />
<strong><i>"With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist." </i>(M. Parr)</strong></p>
<p><strong>At the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art you can see an extensive exhibition of British documentary photographer Martin Parr, from February 10 to May 16, 2011. The exhibition tour introduces the most important cycles of Martin Parr´s work and in Prague is enriched by a selection of photographs from the latest project called Luxury (2009), videoprojections and a part of „Parrworld" – wide collection of objects and souvenirs.</strong></p>
<p><br />
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents to the Czech audience the exhibition of the outstanding British documentary photographer, <strong>Martin Parr</strong>. A member of the prestigious agency Magnum Photos, he is one of the most highly respected and discussed contemporary artists who has influenced an entire generation of photographers. <br />
His specific point of view, his gently ironic sense of humor and his use of intensely saturated colors, create the unmistakable signature style of this artist who operates on the borders of various genres. Parr is a successful photojournalist, but he also often works on conceptual projects, as well as fashion and commercial photography.</p>
<p>Parr initially became widely-known for his photographs from the 1980s depicting everyday life of the British middle class which provoked a wave of controversial reactions. Since the 1990s, his cooperation with Magnum Photos has allowed him to travel more extensively and to cover a broader range of themes beyond the borders of the United Kingdom. His photographs focus on the global issues of mass consumption, tourism and communication. He explores individual national characteristics and the increasing uniformity of today’s world. Parr’s concept of photography creates a new form of contemporary social-critical document.<i> “When people laugh and cry at the same time when looking at my pictures, that’s precisely the reaction the pictures evoke in me. The things are neither fundamentally good, nor bad. I am always interested in portraying both extremes”.</i> (M. Parr)</p>
<p>The <strong>Assorted Cocktail </strong>was presented for the first time at the Photokina Fair in Cologne, Germany in 2006 where the artist was awarded the Erich Salomon Prize. The exhibition represents Parr’s outstanding thematic cycles from the years 1983—2009, such as <i>Last Resort</i>, <i>Small World</i>, <i>Bored Couples</i>, <i>Common Sense</i>, <i>Think of England </i>along with the series <i>Think of Germany</i>, <i>Knokke le Zoute</i>, <i>Mexico</i>, <i>Glasgow</i>, <i>Phone Project </i>and the more recent <i>Luxury</i> cycle.</p>
<p>Martin Parr plays a significant role within a broader artistic context. During his career, he has published over sixty books and organised countless exhibitions of his own work. He continues to be a very active photographer. In addition, he makes documentary films and frequently serves as an editor and curator of other photographers’ work. Martin Parr is a passionate collector and owner of one of the largest collections of photographic books. He also collects prints with particular emphasis on British photographers as well as postcards and ephemera. The exhibition in Prague is accompanied by various objects and souvenirs reflecting upon the social and political scene – such as a teapot in the shape of Margaret Thatcher´s head, watches with Saddam Hussein or a toilet paper with Osama bin Laden. Parr’s collecting activity corresponds to his photography that he himself regards as a form of collecting.</p>
<p><strong>Martin Parr </strong>was born in Epsom, Surrey, UK, in 1952. When he was a boy, his budding interest in the medium of photography was encouraged by his grandfather George Parr, himself a keen amateur photographer. Martin Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic, from 1970 to 1973. Since that time, Martin Parr has worked on numerous photographic projects. He has developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, and his input to photographic culture within the UK and abroad. In 1994 he became a full member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency. In recent years, he has developed an interest in filmmaking, and has started to use his photography within different conventions, such as fashion and advertising. In 2002 the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Media Museum initiated a large retrospective of Martin Parr’s work. This show toured Europe for the next 5 years. Martin Parr was appointed Professor of Photography in 2004 at The University of Wales Newport campus. In the same year, he was Guest Artistic Director for Rencontres d’Arles. In 2006 he was awarded the Erich Salomon Prize and the resulting Assorted Cocktail show opens at Photokina. In 2008 he was guest curator at New York Photo Festival, curating the New Typologies exhibition. At PhotoEspaña 2008, he wins the Baume et Mercier award in recognition of his professional career and contributions to contemporary photography. Martin Parr curated the Brighton Photo Biennial that took place in October 2010.</p>
<p>For more information follow <u>www.dox.cz</u> or <u>www.martinparr.com </u>(we reccomend to read FAQ at the CV section at M. Parr´s webpage)<br />
<br />
<strong>Publication<br />
</strong>The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with selected photographs from the sections shown at the exhibition. (190 CZK)</p>
<p><strong>Lecture by M. Parr<br />
</strong>The author will give a lecture at DOX on February 10, 2011 at 6 pm. <br />
Reservations at <u>tereza@dox.cz<br />
</u>For current accompanying programs please folow the website <u>www.dox.cz<br />
</u>Programs to the exhibitions usually take place on Mondays and Tuesdays.</p>
<p><strong>Photos to downoload </strong>at <u>www.mediareport.cz<br />
</u>© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos</p>
<p>The exhibition was prepared in cooperation with Magnum Photos agency.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners<br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</p>
<p>The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners<br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
E: info@dox.cz, T: +420 224 930 927<br />
<strong>Exhibition room <br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o., <u>www.mediareport.cz<br />
</u><strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong>, T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: <u>kaslova@mediareport.cz </u>or <u>media@dox.cz<br />
</u> </p>
2011/20/01 - DOX and Juan Graizabal present: Kostel v pohybu / Wandering church
<p><strong>Press Release/ 26. 01. 2011</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX and Juan Garaizabal present: <br />
Kostel v pohybu / Wandering Church<br />
<br />
</span>Juan Garaizabal, a Spanish conceptual artist, will present his latest project on the top floor of the DOX tower. He follows up on his previous realizations within his own artistic concept entitled Memoria Urbana (urban memory). In Prague he will exhibit his complex body of work, in which he attempts in an original artistic way for a “renewal” of yet another prominent historic building– the Bohemian Bethlehem Church in Berlin. This destroyed church was a seat of the Czech community in Germany and a symbol of Czech-German relations. The presentation of its model in Prague and subsequent mounting of a metal structure in Berlin, which imitates the real size and shape of the church, is an artistic experience as well as a reference to the history of Czech-German relations.</strong></p>
<p><strong>JUAN GARAIZABAL: Kostel v pohybu / Wandering Church (27. 1. – 18. 4. 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Juan Garaizabal </strong>(born in Madrid in 1971) is a conceptual artist specializing in creation and transformation of interactive spaces as a means of artistic communication. In 2008, he introduced the project of Memoria Urbana (urban memory), the central idea of which is to highlight defunct buildings, monumental absences in urban areas, and energies that are generated around them. Using an iron construction fitted with light and acoustic elements to evoke their spirit, Garaizabal materializes already vanished buildings that once were of great importance. Among these are an outline of the Old City of Bucharest, the Royal Palace of Valencia, the Bohemian Bethlehem Church in Berlin, the Palais des Tuileries in Paris, Old London Bridge and the Paço da Ribeira in Lisbon.</p>
<p><br />
On the top floor of the DOX tower Garaizabal presents a monumental project, whose aim is to “renew” the lost Bohemian Bethlehem Church (Böhmische-Bethlehemskirche) that was in Berlin. This building has a unique position in the Czech-German history. It was the centre of the Czech community’s life in Berlin, of religious refugees, until 1943, when it was badly damaged by bombing. Subsequently, in 1963, it was demolished and the site was incorporated into the facilities of Checkpoint Charlie. With the fall of the Wall, the American promoter who developed the plot was sensitive to the demands of the Czech community and negotiated with the city to vacate the original location of the church.Two years ago, inspired by the ground plan mosaic of the church in the pavement of the Bethlehemkirchplatz, Garaizabal began to look for traces of the lost Bohemian Church and collected numerous documents in Berlin and the Czech Republic.<br />
The final aim of the whole project is once again to portray the church in its original size (a height of 30 m, which is equivalent to a 10 storey building) and in its authentic location in Berlin. That would be preceded by the presentation of a project in Prague, the capital city of Bohemia, the region from which the refugees came and which was the inspiration for aesthetic and ethical content of the church. The exhibition at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents the creative process of the artist's work which led to a model of “Understanding Bethlehemskirche” with a height of 4.75 meters.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><br />
<strong>Press Conference:<br />
</strong>Common press conference for the exbitions in January – the project of Juan Garaizabal, the exposition of Michal Cimala and the group exhibition of Nina Beier, Marie Lund and Jiří Kovanda - will take place on <strong>January 26 at 11 am at the DOX Café.</strong></p>
<p>Accompanying programs to the exhibitions at DOX usually take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. More information at www.dox.cz<br />
<br />
<strong>Partner of the exhibtion:<br />
</strong>Embassy of Spain in Prague</p>
<p><strong>DOX Partners: <br />
</strong>Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</p>
<p>The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: <br />
</strong>Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office address<br />
</strong>Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@dox.cz nebo media@dox.cz<br />
Exhibition room <br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for journalists <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@dox.cz<br />
T: +420 603 551 372<br />
</p>
2011/01/19 - Czech-Danish project at DOX
<p><strong>Press Release/ 26. 01. 2011</strong></p>
<p><br />
<strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">Czech-Danish project at DOX</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Common project of Czech conceptual artist Jiří Kovanda and Danish authors Nina Baier and Marie Lund will be presented at the DOX Centre for contemporary Art until the end of March.</strong></p>
<p><strong><br />
• NINA BEIER, MARIE LUND and JIŘÍ KOVANDA: Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana (27. 1. - 28. 3. 2011)</strong></p>
<p>The project for the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art will be the first joint concept of the three artists. It combines conceptual, minimalist and contextual approaches, as well as new conceptual approaches linking interest in sculptures and objects. The exhibition comes into being as a mutual conversation, including the choice of the individual works. Taking up three floors, the exhibition is intended to present the work of the artists in terms of thematic relationships, which will be legible in many different ways.</p>
<p><strong>Nina Beier</strong> and <strong>Marie Lund </strong>first met <strong>Jiří Kovanda</strong> in Prague in 2006. Originally from Denmark, the two artists were exhibiting at the Display Gallery. After that they encountered Jiří Kovanda several times on the international art scene, such as at the Tate Modern in 2007, at the All the Best exhibition at Gallery OneOneOne in London in 2008 and when Jiří Kovanda invited them to take part in his exhibition When I Was Little, I Used to Play with Girls at the Gallery Klatovy / Klenová. That fact alone indicates certain connections in their work and approach. These connections have not disappeared even though both Danish artists decided for a solo career - Nina Beier lives and works in Berlin, Marie Lund in London.</p>
<p><strong>Nina Beier</strong> and <strong>Marie Lund</strong> collaborated from 2005 to 2009. They are now both working individually and the exhibition will feature their recent individual works. Their joint work was located (and still is, to an extent) on the specific boundary between performance and intervention. At first it consisted chiefly of social experiments based on collective implementation of scripts proposed by the artists. Later it focused on the topic of institutional framework and the operation of the art world in general. In the recent period their language has shifted markedly to the environment of objects and “sculptures”. These carry a message about the transformation of stably viewed reality by means of a different perspective setting. Although the starting point remains conceptual, the emphasis on the material and sensual substance is undeniable.</p>
<p> The art of <strong>Jiří Kovanda</strong> is based on similar principles and a very similar shift can be observed in his present approach. His reaction to minimalist esthetics and the Arte Povera movement during the 1990s gave way at the beginning of the millennium to interventions that are generally termed here “discreet tendencies”, of which Kovanda is the most striking exponent. Kovanda´s invisible objective situations, created by an imperceptible context and by defocusing the framework of the work of art, have been enhanced, as in the case of Nina Beier and Marie Lund, by new interest in the visuality and content of the object and installation. The esthetics of impoverishment and invisibility combine with their opposite – beauty and visibility – not for themselves but as a result of the changing sensitivity of the time and its need for language change.</p>
<p><strong>Press Conference:</strong><br />
Common press conference for the exhibitions in January - the group exhibition of Nina Beier, Marie Lund and jiří Kovanda, the project of Juan Garaizabal and the exposition of Michal Cimala - will take place on January 26 at 11 am at the DOX Café.</p>
<p><strong>Program accompanying the exhibition:</strong><br />
Tour of the exhibition with commentary by the curator Edith Jeřábková will take place on January 31 at 5pm.<br />
Tour of the exhibition with commentary by Jiří Kovanda will take place on March 14 at 5 pm.<br />
Accompanying programs to the exhibitions at DOX usually take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. More information at www.dox.cz<br />
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<strong>DOX Partners: </strong><br />
Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</p>
<p>The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: </strong><br />
Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art</span></strong><br />
<strong>Office address</strong><br />
Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@dox.cz nebo media@dox.cz<br />
<strong>Exhibition room </strong><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">Contact for journalists </span></strong><br />
Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@dox.cz<br />
T: +420 603 551 372</p>
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2011/01/19 - Objects and drawings by Michal Cimala at DOX
<p><strong>Press Release/ 20. 01. 2011</strong></p>
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<strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">Objects and drawings by Michal Cimala at DOX</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>The DOX Centre for contemporary Art will present alternative musical objects and drawings by Michal Cimala from January 21 to March 7, 2011.</strong></p>
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<strong>• MICHAL CIMALA : Shift (21. 1. – 7. 3. 2011)</strong></p>
<p>Michal Cimala is a distinctive figure on the contemporary Czech art scene. Cimala operates on the borders of design and free art, using all sorts of materials and media. He commented on the inspiration he derives from cities and industrial surroundings: “All those sounds and noises that the city emits, the taste or aftertaste of its various districts, are all deeply ingrained in me.” His work combines elements of sculpture, industrial design, painting, drawing, sound and performance.</p>
<p><strong>Instrumrents</strong><br />
Cimala transfers his interest in dynamic shapes and process mainly to his objects. He has gradually shifted from crude industrial aesthetics to plastics and plexiglass, developing an untraditional method of treating industrial waste. While on a grant-funded internship at UdK in Berlin he discovered a new material – yellow plastic gas piping. His sculptural experiments with that material led him to design experimental musical instruments. He subsequently attached strings and guitar pickups to his instruments, thereby adding sound effects to his sculptural creations. This has given rise to a bizarre, fully functional vision of musical instruments, which, among other things, led to the founding of the alternative musical ensemble Roxxxor Vysočany, which performed in the 2001 - 2009 period. In addition to plastic musical objects, Cimala also creates so-called “Snowguitars” – bass guitars sawn out of snowboards.<br />
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<strong>Drawings </strong><br />
The extensive installation of drawings covers the period 1995 - 2010. Cimala abandoned calm “situations” in favour of fast and deft drawings, and his choice of themes is reminiscent of film or pop dynamic. The themes of “sex”, “situation”, “stress” or “outsiders” have the cogency of diary entries. A major part of the installation consists of sketches of developmental prototypes of various pieces of apparatus and structures. Cimala’s works on paper employ many techniques, from pen and felt-tip to airbrush.</p>
<p>Michal Cimala was born in 1975 at Havířov and graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague where he was a student in the metal and jewellery studio headed by V. K. Novák. He currently works as assistant in the studio of Jaroslav Róna at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Trafačka art centre at Vysočany in Prague.</p>
<p><strong>Press Conference:</strong><br />
Common press conference for the exhibitions in January - the exposition of Michal Cimala, the project of Juan Garaizabal and the group exhibition of Nina Beier, Marie Lund and Jiří Kovanda - will take place on January 26 at 11 am at the DOX Café.</p>
<p><strong>Program accompanying the exhibition:</strong><br />
Tour of the exhibition with commentary by Michal Cimala will take place on February 7, 2011 from 5pm and on March 3, 2011 from 6pm.<br />
Accompanying programs to the exhibitions at DOX usually take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. More informations at www.dox.cz<br />
<br />
<strong>DOX Partners: </strong><br />
Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</p>
<p>The DOX is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>DOX Media Partners: </strong><br />
Hospodářské noviny, Prague Events Calendar</p>
<p><br />
<strong>CONTACTS:</strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art</span></strong><br />
<strong>Office address</strong><br />
Osadní 34, 170 00 Praha 7<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@dox.cz nebo media@dox.cz<br />
<strong>Exhibition room </strong><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7</p>
<p><u>www.dox.cz<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</u></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)">Contact for journalists </span></strong><br />
Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@dox.cz<br />
T: +420 603 551 372</p>
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2011/01/03 - Beginning of the year 2011 at DOX
<p> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; letter-spacing: 3pt; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">Press Release/ 03. 01. 2011</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" class="MsoTitle" align="left"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: CS">Three interesting exhibitions will take place at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art: alternative musical objects and drawings by Michal Cimala and a common project of Czech conceptual artist Jiří Kovanda and Danish auhors Nina Beier and Marie Lund. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Juan Garaizabal, Spanish artist, will present his monumental installation at the DOX tower. In February DOX will present to the Czech public an extensive exhibition of British documentary photographer Martin Parr, a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency.</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: CS"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" class="MsoTitle" align="left"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: CS"><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">• MICHAL CIMALA : Shift (21. 1. – 7. 3. 2011)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">• <strong><span style="color: gray">NINA BEIER, MARIE LUND </span></strong>and</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt"> <strong><span style="color: gray">JIŘÍ KOVANDA:</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Boba Dylana (</span></b><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">27. 1. - 28. 3. 2011</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">• </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">JUAN GARAIZABAL: Wandering Church (</span></b><strong><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">27. 1. - 18. 4. 2011)</span></strong></p>
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<p><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt">•</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US"> MARTIN PARR:</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">Assorted Cocktail (10. 2. - 16. 5. 2011) </span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">Michal Cimala</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"> is a distinctive figure on the contemporary Czech art scene. He currently works as assistant in the studio of Jaroslav Róna at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Trafačka art centre at Vysočany in Prague.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">Cimala operates on the borders of design and free art, using all sorts of materials and media. He commented on the inspiration he derives from cities and industrial surroundings: <i>“All those sounds and noises that the city emits, the taste or aftertaste of its various districts, are all deeply ingrained in me.” </i>His work combines elements of sculpture, industrial design, painting, drawing, sound and performance. The exhibition at the DOX Centre of Contemporary Art is a selection of his musical objects and cycles of drawings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt"><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">Nina Beier </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">and <b>Marie Lund </b>met <b>Jiří Kovanda </b>in Prague in 2006. Originally from Denmark, the two artists were exhibiting at the Display Gallery. After that they encountered Jiří Kovanda several times on the international art scene, such as at the Tate Modern in 2007, at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">All the Best</i> exhibition at Gallery OneOneOne in London in 2008, and when Jiří Kovanda invited them to take part in his exhibition <i>When I Was Little, I Used to Play with Girls</i> at the Klatovy / at Galerie Klatovy / Klenová. The project for the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art will be the first joint concept of the three artists. It combines conceptual, minimalist, contextual approaches, as well as new conceptual approaches linking interest in sculptures and objects. The project comes into being as a mutual conversation among tne artists and tne curator, Edith Jeřábková, including the choice of the individual works. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0pt"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang="EN">On the top floor of the DOX tower <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Juan Garaizabal</b>, Spanish artist, will present a monumental project, whose aim is to “renew” </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: ES" lang="ES">the lost Bohemian Bethlehem Church (Böhmische-Bethlehemskirche) that was in Berlin. This building has a unique position in the Czech-German history. </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">It was the centre of the Czech community’s life in Berlin, of religious refugees, until 1943, when it was badly damaged by bombing. In 1963 it was demolished and the site was incorporated into the facilities of Checkpoint Charlie. </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: ES" lang="ES">Two years ago, Garaizabal began to look for traces of the lost Berlin church and collected numerous documents in Berlin and the Czech Republic.</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">The final aim is once again to portray the church in its original size (30m) and authentic location in Berlin. The project is preceded by the presentation of its model in Prague, the capital city of Bohemia, the region from which the refugees came and which was an inspiration for aesthetic and ethical content of the original church. The exhibition <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wandering Church</i> at DOX presents the creative process of the artist´s work, which led to a model of "Understanding Bethlehemskirche" with a height of 4.75 m. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents an extensive exhibition of British documentary photographer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Martin Parr</b>, a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency and one of </span><span style="font-size: 13px" class="Apple-style-span">today´s most respected and discussed artists. The work of Martin Parr has influenced a whole generation of photographers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">The exhibition called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Assorted Cocktail</span></i><b> </b>introduces his work from the years 1983-2004 including such significant thematic cycles as "Last Resort", "Small World", "Common Sense", "Think of England" and others. Parr is considered a chronicler of our time. His world famous photographs from the 80s reflect with a distinctive humor and gentle irony the everyday life of the British middle class. He focuses on the topics of mass consumption, tourism and communication and he explores national stereotypes and the growing uniformity of today´s global world.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">Common press conference to the exhibitions of Michal Cimala, Juan Garaizabal and Nina Beier, Marie Lund and Jiří Kovanda will take place on </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">January </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">26, at 11:00 am at DOX Café.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt">The press conference to the exhibition of Martin Parr will take place
on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">February</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">9, at 2 pm at DOX Café.
</b><span style="color: #ff0000"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">(Attention! The time of the press conference
to the exhibition of Martin Parr was postponed to 2 pm!) </b></span></span><strong> </strong></pre>
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Accompanying Programs</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"> to the exhibitions usually take place on Mondays and Tuesdays. More informations at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">www.dox.cz<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Zdeněk Bakala, Hlavní město Praha, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.</span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US">The DOX program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2010/11/03 21st year of the “Jindřich Chalupecký Award” at DOX
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press release /November 3, 2010</span></strong></p>
<p>TITLES OF EXHIBITIONS: <br />
<strong>Final 2010<br />
Prize-Winners 20 years<br />
Archive Chalupecký<br />
</strong>VENUE: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague<br />
</strong>PERIOD:<strong> November 4, 2010 – January 17, 2011</strong></p>
<h3><br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">21st year of the “Jindřich Chalupecký Award” at DOX</span></h3>
<p><strong>From November 2010 through January 2011 visitors to the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art at Holešovice in Prague have the opportunity to view three exhibitions related to the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.</strong><br />
<br />
An exhibition of the Finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for 2010 will be open from <strong>November 4 2010 through January 17, 2011</strong>. Eighty artists or groups were nominated or applied for the prize this year. This year’s prizewinner will be chosen by an international jury from among the following candidates: <strong>Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, David Böhm and Jiří Franta, Václav Magid, Jakub Matuška, and Alice Nikitinová. </strong></p>
<p>Taking place at the same period will be an exhibition of works by all the previous laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award – <strong>Prize-Winners 20 years</strong>. The third anniversary exhibition, entitled <strong>Archive Chalupecký</strong>, recalls the personality of this Czech art theorist and critic. This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jindřich Chalupecký, who died 20 years ago last June.</p>
<p>This year’s prizewinner will be chosen in the course of the exhibition and the ceremonial prize-giving will take place at DOX on <strong>November 23, 2010</strong>. As last year, the evening’s program will be devised by the artist Michal Pěchouček, who was awarded the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2003.<br />
The prizewinner will receive a six-week scholarship in New York and 100 thousand Czech crowns to fund an exhibition, project or catalogue during 2011.</p>
<p>The Jindřich Chalupecký Award was founded in 1990 on the initiative of the playwright and writer Václav Havel, the painter Theodor Pištěk and the poet and artist Jiří Kolář, with the intention of rewarding the most talented Czech artists below the age of 35. The current Chairperson of the Jindřich Chalupecký Association is Charlotta Kotíková, the Vice-Chairperson is Tomáš Pospiszyl and the Executive Director is Lenka Lindaurová.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>The Five Finalists<br />
Vasil Artamonov (*1980) and Alexey Klyuykov (*1983)</strong> were selected because of the consistent quality of their work, which encompasses a wide range of media from performances, installations, painting and sculpture to social projects. These artists demonstrate a deep understanding of art history and react to impulses from the past, particular Futurism and Suprematism. They use the history of art as a research framework, and they react through their works to political issues to do with the evolution of democratic systems and capitalist economies in the former Soviet bloc.</p>
<p>The duo of <strong>David Böhm (*1978) and Jiří Franta (*1982)</strong> are among the finalists for the second time. Their joint oeuvre has once more gained the jury’s approval thanks to their meticulous formal workmanship and the duo’s commitment to social and cultural issues. Their joint projects are inspired by street art and graffiti and react to the institutional context of art. The jury took into account their “invisible” presentation of last year, where the work could only be seen by means of viewer participation. The team use drawing and installations to accentuate phenomena that remain hidden to our awareness</p>
<p>In the case of <strong>Václav Magid (*1979)</strong>, the jury valued the conceptual quality of his work and his ability to link context and references at a high intellectual level, where with subtle irony he subjects reality to rational analysis, and his concentrated interest on the situation chosen also has social implications. The jury also appreciated his work as curator and theorist, which is crucial both in the context of his own art and for shaping the local art scene.</p>
<p><strong>Jakub Matuška (*1981)</strong> makes use of street art methods in his work as part of monumental paintings. His interesting aesthetics and painting skills are evident in his classical paintings on canvas, which he constructs with compositional and formal precision. He achieves clear, powerful and rich expression with a pop-art/surrealist feel. The jury was impressed by the quality of his painting and his distinctive poetry.</p>
<p>In her pictures, objects and installations <strong>Alice Nikitinová (*1979)</strong> transforms everyday experience. Entering one of her installations is like looking through a magnifying glass. She creates an abstract world that is reduced to the fundamentals of existence. She creates it with humor and the use of pictograms as the antithesis of the flood of moving images and and unnecessary stimuli. Her approach to painting impressed the jury with its concentration and elimination of unnecessary elements. In many respects it is inspired by the work of Kazimir Malevich and his circle.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong><u>The members of the 2010 jury</u></strong>:<br />
Susanne Altmann, freelance curator, Germany<br />
Elizabeth M. Grady, freelance curator, USA<br />
Joanna Mytkowska, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland<br />
Mira Keratová, freelance curator, Slovakia<br />
Pavel Liška, President of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic<br />
Martin Mainer, artist, Czech Republic<br />
Ondřej Chrobák, curator of the Central-Bohemian Regional Gallery, Czech Republic</p>
<p> </p>
<p><u><strong>Prize-Winners 20 years exhibition<br />
</strong></u>Works by the twenty laureates of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award from 1990 through 2009 reflecting the evolution and transformation of the Czech art scene over the years. The catalogue documents the views of each of the award-winning artists concerning Jindřich Chalupecký’s legacy, the significance of the prize and their mutual relationships. The confrontational aspect of their responses is particularly interesting in the context of the confrontation of their works in the main exhibition space of DOX.</p>
<p><strong><u>Artist exhibiting</u></strong>:<br />
Vladimír Kokolia (1990), František Skála (1991), Michal Nesázal (1992), Martin Mainer (1993), Michal Gabriel (1994), Petr Nikl (1995), Kateřina Vincourová (1996), Jiří Příhoda (1997), Jiří Černický (1998), Lukáš Rittstein (1999), David Černý (2000), Tomáš Vaněk (2001), Markéta Othová (2002), Michal Pěchouček (2003), Ján Mančuška (2004), Kateřina Šedá (2005), Barbora Klímová (2006), Eva Koťátková (2007), Radim Labuda (2008), Jiří Skála (2009).<br />
Curator: Lenka Lindaurová</p>
<p><strong><u>Archive Chalupecký exhibition<br />
</u></strong>What does an art critic leave behind? Books, catalogues, articles, correspondence, photos, dictionary entries, a bibliography and the reminiscences of contemporaries. How can such materialsm be displayed in a meaningful way? How can it help throw light on a complex personality and its significance? This exhibition in the art archive section of DOX presents a chronologically arranged but otherwise random collage of photos and texts that help elucidate the life and work of Jindřich Chalupecký. Also on display at the exhibition will be the updated Chalupecký entry in the abART information system.<br />
Exhibitions devised by Tomáš Pospiszyl and Petr Babák</p>
<p><strong><u>Co-organizers</u></strong>: The Jindřich Chalupecký Society and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Foundation For a Civil Society <br />
<strong><u>Exhibition Partners</u></strong>: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the City of Prague, Prague 1 local authority, FDbus spol. s r.o., Benzina, s.r.o., Jinova, s.r.o., FERONA THYSSEN PLASTICS, s.r.o.<br />
<strong><u>Media Partners</u></strong>: E 15, Respekt, Art & Antiques, Czech Radio 3 Vltava, Art Map</p>
<p><u><strong>DOX Partners</strong></u>: <br />
Zdeněk Bakala, the City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Poster Infinity s.r.o., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., PRAGUE EVENTS CALENDAR<br />
DOX Centre’s program is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>CONTACTS:<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</span></strong>Office address<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
Address of the exhibition space<br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Press contact <br />
</span>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>T: +420 603 551 372<br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org</p>
<p><strong>Jindřich Chalupecký Society<br />
Lenka Lindaurová, Executive Director<br />
</strong>T: +420 777 553 652<br />
E: lenkalindaurova@cjch.cz<br />
www.cjch.cz<br />
</p>
2010/14/10 METROPOLIS
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release /October 14, 2010</span></strong></p>
<h1>METROPOLIS</h1>
<p><br />
Exhibition: <strong>METROPOLIS<br />
</strong>Location: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
Poupětova 1, Praha 7<br />
</strong>Period: <strong>October 15th - December 31st, 2010<br />
</strong>Exhibitors: <strong>Cryptic 257, Masker, Pasta, Point, Skarf, Tron<br />
</strong>Curator:<strong> Blanka Čermáková</strong></p>
<p>As part of the EXHIBITION OPENING there will be a premier of the documentary SUMMER IN SHANGHAI by Sasa Dlouhy, who was accompanying the artists during their China tour. The filmmaker attempts to capture the atmosphere of Shanghai and portray it as an all around more progressive city than most in the western world. There will be a performance by TOYZ! + guests.</p>
<p><strong>Graffiti at DOX </strong></p>
<p>The ‘Metropolis’ exhibition of Czech street art and graffiti has returned home from Shanghai. There will be an opportunity to view works by leading representatives of the Czech street art and graffiti scene at the DOX Center of Contemporary Art. Masker, Pasta, Tron, Skarf, Cryptic 257 and Point will display their monumental installations from October 15 through December 31.<br />
<br />
Following its success at the Czech pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, the exhibition has now returned home. A version of the exhibition, slightly adapted to the DOX Centre’s space, will provide an opportunity to judge the level, quality and development of works of the six artists, whose names - Masker, Pasta, Tron, Skarf, Cryptic 257 and Point - have been in the public consciousness for the past fifteen years at least.</p>
<p>For societies throughout the world street art and graffiti are a fairly accessible, clear and lucid art form that does not require any deep knowledge of art. Thanks to that it easily gains fans, who do not need to know the language, political situation or other details, above all because of its visual brazenness and aptness, enhanced by the locations where it unexpectedly occurs or which it complements in an unusual and often witty fashion.</p>
<p>In creating their individual concepts the artists focused on depicting an existing city in their imagination. They demolished the four-walled gallery space in the eyes of the visitors and replaced it with materialized graffiti in an unaccustomed urban setting. This gave rise to a fantastical vision of the future, which at root is also attached to the inherent architectonic elements of Czech cities that enhance its unique character.<br />
<br />
This exhibition of street art and graffiti plays with dimensions, reality and dream. Placed in the exhibition space will be an urban collage, which visitors will enter beneath bridge structures directly into the vestibule of a Prague metro station with typical marble walls, information boards and a new Czech invention: a graffiti vending machine that will dispense spray cans and masks instead of drinks (Cryptic 257).<br />
The ‘underground’ installations lead onto a surrealistic vision of Communist-era prefab apartment blocks penetrated by some colored organic matter – does it destroy their structure or hold them together? It looks like a play thing or a terrifying urban worm, consuming the city’s innards (Point).<br />
A key element giving shape to the entire installation in space will be a time-lapse video montage monitoring the transformation of the environment over time which lends the entire gallery/urban space a uniform atmosphere, using the sounds and noises of urban life (Skarf).</p>
<p>Alongside projections documenting destruction the visitor will come upon a candy store full of atypical candies with 1960s-style aesthetics, all sorts of neon signs with crazy wordings, slightly reminiscent of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory from Tim Burton’s film, bordering on art and kitsch (Pasta). <br />
Pass the candy store appears a miniature three-story prefabricated apartment block offering views of the lives of surreal figures who inhabit each of the floors and the opportunity to see literally what is going on in their minds (Masker).<br />
Looking down on the apartment block is a group of skyscrapers, whose shapes form the inscription TRON – the artist’s nick-name. Supplementing the light-installation are flashing neon signs recalling a futuristic vision of cities.<br />
<br />
<strong><u>The artists</u></strong>:<br />
Amazingly for many, this group of artists who were street-taught consists of graduates of leading Czech art schools, some of whom studied abroad and over time have exhibited in many Czech and foreign galleries and at art festivals. They are now among the most active artists in their field.</p>
<p><strong>CRYPTIC 257</strong> (*1982) is an artist whose work can be best summed up in the sentence: “The main stuff happens outside.” Any attempt to pigeon-hole his work as going beyond the frontiers of graffiti, or street art, or art in public space, proves pointless and restrictive when his work is examined more closely. The wit, perceptiveness and dexterity with which he intervenes in our common public space transforms with fine nuances what we regard as ordinary into something remarkable. His apparently simple ideas have powerful reverberations, and they include an element of irony, humor and a discreet story line. Most important, however is freedom and a certain kind of humility towards what he reshapes.</p>
<p><strong>POINT</strong> (*1978) aka Cakes attended two Prague art schools and toured graffiti festivals in Berlin, Moscow, Manchester, Amsterdam and Gothenburg, among others. In 2008 he organized an ambitious international festival of street art and graffiti titled NAMES in Prague. He is one of the legends of the Czech scene (DSK crew). He practices not only classic graffiti with a talent for dynamic compositions with playful coloring, but also creates street-art sculptures of various formats and is not afraid of experiment, thus shifting the boundaries of the genre. He has reduced the broadly sweeping graffiti style onto canvas as a concentrated minimalist style in the spirit of Piet Mondrian. Although in recent years his art has partly shifted into galleries, he has not stopped intervening in urban space. His unforgettable works include his Monument to the Victims of Graffiti, which he installed in 2007 at one of the busiest locations in Prague, 3D sculptures of small dragons made up of the letters in POINT, which he calls “little points” and has placed on the parapets of dozens of buildings, and countless small colored creations throughout the Czech Republic.<br />
www.onepoint.cz</p>
<p><strong>MASKER</strong> (*1981) is a painter and drawer, who transfers his figures and painting techniques into street art and street art techniques back into his painting. He studied painting with Prof. V. Skrepl at the Prague Academy of Fine Art and attended courses in London and New York. His monumental gray-blue pictures generally comprise pink weeping figures, slightly erotic scenes or describe absurd situations of personal relationships. His simplified illustrative drawings embody his sarcastic attitude to civilization and its bad habits. He transfers his large-format paintings on walls and ceilings back onto canvas and vice versa. His most striking work includes the ceiling of a Baroque castle at Třebešice in Bohemia, as well as a black-and-white painting measuring several meters on a brick wall in London, and an original book “Fax you” published on fax paper in a limited edition. To a smaller extent he produces videos and 3D objects. <a href="http://www.masker1.net">www.masker1.net</a></p>
<p><strong>PASTA</strong> (*1979) is one of the pioneers of the Czech street art scene, publishing and editing the only Czech street-art-graffiti magazine “Clique”. He helped produce the first Czech book tracing the evolution of graffiti in the Czech Republic: ”In Graffiti We Trust.” He decorates streets with screen prints, stickers and a flood of posters with striking texts and ‘subvertising’. However, as is now typical for his generation, he does not restrict himself to intervention in the urban space and street furniture, but also exhibits in galleries and is involved in classical art disciplines. He has a pure graphic style with its roots in American pop-art and 1960s advertisements. His work draws inspiration from Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. A key component of his work is frequent depiction of tubes of paste in various “life” situations. In the recent period he entertains himself and club-goers as a DJ and he and Point briefly hosted a radio show about the Czech graffiti scene. He occasionally designs clothes and other products.<br />
www.pastaoner.cz</p>
<p><strong>TRON</strong> (*1978) belongs to the most expressive wave of Czech (Prague) writers with many achievements to his credit. He is engaged in countless graphic activities with the magazines “Rooftop”, “Free Magazine” and “Upstream”, ranging from festival visuals, books, CD covers for bands, web design, and the creation of original fonts, to the design of posters and invitations to arts events. His graphics projects of the recent period include Names Festival, Kick the Shit! Bitch!, OBR, the Thick-skinned Moviegoers’ Festival for the Aero Movie Theater, IFP, visuals for the Bigg Boss label, etc. In addition to computer graphics, who also produces drawings and airbrush works. He brings his vivid imagination to bear on graffiti and visual effects. Member of CAP, NUTS, DSK a TOYZ! http://www.834.cz/</p>
<p><strong>SKARF</strong> (*1977) majored in film animation and dramatic direction at the Prague Film Academy and has directed short films, TV jingles and music videoclips, which regularly receive awards. His animation work is very recognizable and in many cases is inspired by his street-art roots. A highly individual director (also animator and artist), he was one of the first Czech graffiti artists and was also a member of the popular Czech hip-hop group “WWW”. For the past few years he has led an Experimental Film Workshop at the Josef Škvorecký Literary Academy in Prague.<br />
http://vimeo.com/user578549/videos</p>
<p><strong>Blanka Čermáková</strong> (*1979) has worked since 2006 as a curator and fundraiser at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague. She is a member of the “Trafaček” civic association, which administers an alternative exhibition and residential space in Prague’s Vysočany district. In addition to regular annual group exhibitions of graduates in the Prague National Gallery, she assisted with the NAMES international street art and graffiti festival held in Prague in 2008.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying Programs<br />
</strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art organizes a series of accompanying programs to the exhibition including projections of a documentary about Shanghai, an evening event based on the EXPO 2010 theme with representatives of the management of the Czech pavilion, projection of the Kick the Shit cult videos, guided tours with commentaries by the artists themselves, presentations of their portfolios, and many more. <br />
Events take place on Mondays and Thursdays either in the lecture hall or in the DOX cafeteria from 18.00 o’clock. Updated schedule of events can be found at the website www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p>Two publications accompany the exhibition: a DOX published Czech-English catalogue about the exhibition itself and a more detailed English-Chinese publication accompanying the Shanghai EXPO 2010 is also available.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><u>DOX Partners</u>: <br />
<strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Prague Events Calendar, Poster Infinity s.r.o.</strong></p>
<p><strong>DOX is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</strong></p>
<p><u>DOX Media Partner</u>: <br />
<strong>Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p><u>Exhibition Partners</u>:<br />
<strong>Perfect catering s. r. o., freeSaM s. r. o.</strong></p>
<p><u>Exhibition Media Partner</u>:<br />
<strong>METROPOLIS LIVE, s.r.o.</strong></p>
<p><br />
<u>CONTACTS</u>:<br />
<strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</strong><u>Office<br />
</u>Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Prague 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
<u>Exhibition room <br />
</u>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours<br />
</strong>Mon: 10am–6pm<br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11am–7pm<br />
Sat and Sun: 10am–6pm<br />
<br />
<u>Contact for editors</u>: <br />
<strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
Phone: +420 603 551 372 <br />
</p>
2010/06/10 - GILBERT&GEORGE
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release/06. 10.2010</span></strong></p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000">Gilbert & George at DOX</span></h2>
<p>Exhibition: <strong>Gilbert & George: Roads 1972 - 1992 <br />
</strong>Location: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
Poupětova 1, Praha 7<br />
</strong>Period:<strong> 7. 10. 2010 – 2. 1. 2011<br />
</strong>Curator:<strong> Otto M. Urban</strong></p>
<p><strong>The renowned British artistic duo Gilbert & George will be introduced to the Czech public at DOX presenting six art works from the period between 1972 and 1992. The artists, who became recognized for their specific kind of performance art called ‘living sculptures’ in the early 1970s are now usually identified with photo-based art works that they color with bright colors and assemble into greater formats using regular grid. The exhibition runs from 7 October 2010 until 2 January 2011. </strong></p>
<p>The exhibition is a part of the international project Decadence Now! which runs simultaneously at Galerie Rudolfinum presenting the art of Gilbert & George in a specific context.</p>
<p>The art of Gilbert & George had a great impact on the generation of artists coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s, i.e., the period covered by the exhibition. The selection of works presented in the exhibition covers all the key periods in the artists’ career: the early chaotic piece organized around asymmetric parts (The Major´s Port) is gaining a more symmetric form (Human Bondage) then color is introduced<br />
(Fuck), which eventually dominates in the artists’ later works. The subtitle of the exhibition Roads comes from the largest piece in the exhibition (253 × 639 cm) shown in DOX tower top gallery devoted to special projects such as site-specific installations or large-size art works. This piece, Roads, symbolizing seeking and transition, is considered by the curator Otto M. Urban to be marking a breaking point in Gilbert and George’s artistic career.</p>
<p><br />
The retrospective chatacter of the exhibition ends in 1992, the year when the piece Yell originated. Works from the period between the years 1997 and 2005 are presented in Galerie Rudolfinum. “In effect, Rudolfinum presents the works of Gilbert & George from the second half of the 1990s onwards whereas DOX showcases the earlier periods until then. The exhibition at DOX is put together in such manner that it works independently as almost a separate exhibition. The Rudolfinum exhibition can be perceived as a supplementary one," says the curator Otto M. Urban about the artwork selection process: “This is a truly representative and prestigious collection.“</p>
<p>In conjunction with the exhibition the DOX Center is publishing a booklet with an introductory text by Otto M. Urban.</p>
<p><strong>Gilbert & George<br />
</strong>The British artistic duo Gilbert & George consists of Gilbert Proesch, born 1943 in San Marino, Italy and George Passmore, born 1942 in Plymouth, United Kingdom. These two men first met in 1967 while studying sculpture at St. Martins School of Art in London. Since then, they have become both life and artistic partners. The beginnings of their creation are connected to the artistic genre of performance art. The characteristic feature of their performances was the presentation of moments and everyday situations, which they called ‘living sculptures’ and documented by photography, film or video. In their work, the pair always appeared dressed formally, and this specific feature is to be found even in their later work. Gilbert & George further developed their collaborative efforts with photography by coloring enlargements with primal hues and organizing them into larger sets of regular networks. They often chose themes attacking social taboos drawn from the environment of London‘s East End, where they both reside and work. As an artistic duo, Gilbert & George have won the Turner Prize (1986), represented the UK at the Venice Biennale (2005), and had a large retrospective at the Tate Modern (2007). The works of Gilbert & George are also represented in many private and public collections around the world.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying Programs<br />
</strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art organizes a series of accompanying programs to the exhibition. Events take place either in the lecture hall or in the DOX cafeteria from 18.00 o’clock. Updated schedule of regular events can be found at the website www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p><strong>25 October 2010, at 6:00 p.m. <br />
</strong>A lecture by Karel Císař: Grid and Order in the Works of Gilbert & George <br />
The lecture will focus on the artistic and social role of the grid and order in Gilbert’s & George’s work, referring not only to their famous photographic works from the 1970s and<br />
’80s, but also to their work with drawing, film, and archives.</p>
<p><strong>15 November 2010, at 6:00 p.m.</strong> <br />
A lecture by Jiří Valoch: Photos in Conceptual Art with Regard to Early Works of Gilbert & George <br />
Many authors started to use photos as an exact articulation of their concept, as from husbands Bechers and Edward Ruscha, others for example combine photos with texts.</p>
<p><strong>2 December 2010, at 6:00 p.m.</strong> <br />
A lecture by Pavlína Morganová: Living Sculpture<br />
The lecture will present the transformation of sculpture in the 20th century in a wider context, with an emphasis on blending sculpture and action, as well as the works of Gilbert & George.</p>
<p>All the events are presented in Czech.</p>
<p>Guided tours and a special educational program “Taboo in Arts“ can be booked upon request in English, German, French, Italian, Norwegian. <br />
Find more on <strong>www.doxprague.org</strong></p>
<p><u>DOX Partners</u>: <br />
<strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Prague Events Calendar, Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX Centre is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</strong></p>
<p><u>DOX Media partner</u>: <br />
<strong>Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><br />
<u>CONTACTS</u>:<br />
<strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</strong><u>Office<br />
</u>Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Prague 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
<u>Exhibition room <br />
</u>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours<br />
</strong>Mon: 10am–6pm<br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11am–7pm<br />
Sat and Sun: 10am–6pm</p>
<p><u>Contact for editors</u>: <br />
<strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
Phone: +420 603 551 372 <br />
</p>
2010/09/15 PLANETA EDEN at the DOX Centre
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release / September 15, 2010</span></strong></p>
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Planet EDEN at the DOX Centre</h2>
<p><u>TITLE OF THE EXHIBITION</u>: <strong>THE PLANET EDEN: TOMORROW’S WORLD IN SOCIALIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1948 – 1978</strong><br />
<u>VENUE</u>: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporay Art, Poupětova 1,<br />
Prague 7</strong><br />
<u>DATE:</u> <strong>September 16 – November 29, 2010 </strong><br />
<u>CURATORS</u>: <strong>Ivan Adamovič and Tomáš Pospiszyl</strong><br />
<u>ORGANIZERS</u>: <strong>Exhibition organized by The DOX Centre <br />
in association with the Brno House of Arts </strong></p>
<p>Guest of honor at the private view will be <strong>Oldřich Pelčák</strong>, (one of two Czech astronauts who trained for the Soyuz 28 mission, but who did not take part in the flight), representing the future that didn‘t happen.<br />
<strong><br />
The exhibition PLANET EDEN: TOMORROW’S WORLD IN SOCIALIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1948 – 1978 will present the vision of the future depicted in the art and popular culture of post-war Czechoslovakia.</strong><br />
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Every epoch adapts the future to suit its needs. At the beginning of the 1950s, the inhabitants of Czechoslovakia were being persuaded that a Communist utopia was on its way. The launch of the first Soviet space satellites served as a propaganda weapon. It left no one in any doubt that by 2000 we would be making regular flights to the Moon. By the second half of the 1960s those dreams were shown to be unrealistic. What remains of them are novels, stories, pictures, architectural projects and sci-fi films in which technological progress did not stop, but the nature of the future social system became increasingly vague. The unfulfilled future of the socialist past is inspiring contemporary artists to reflect on their post-Communist identities.<br />
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<strong>The exhibition is divided into the following sections:</strong></p>
<h3>Film</h3>
<p>The film Icarus XB 1 (1963) was an ambitious attempt at portraying the future of the world. At the end of the 1960s a new film genre made its appearance in Czechoslovak cinema – the sci-fi crazy comedy, which gave up trying to portray a believable, politically-correct future. <br />
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<h3>Tomorrow’s World</h3>
<p>In the fifties and sixties, notions about the Communist utopia fused with technological optimism and social engineering. In his architectonic project Domurbia, Karel Honzík was inspired by the leftist ideals of the inter-war avant-garde. Books about the collectivist future and journals such as Science and Technology routinely presented young people with images of a world fifty or a hundred years in the future. Children’s magazines and literature in particular were full of images of tomorrow.</p>
<h3><br />
Sun City</h3>
<p>Toy manufacturers in Czechoslovakia and the surrounding socialist countries strove to keep pace with technological developments and brought onto the market series of “lunokhods” (robot lunar rovers), space ships and ray guns. The theme of space travel also found its way into parlor games. Children’s magazines were full of fictional space flights and the youngest readers were subconsciously indoctrinated into the fundamental division of the world into capitalism and communism.<br />
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<h3>Victorious Technology</h3>
<p>The most outstanding Czech illustrators of sci-fi literature were Zdeněk Burian, Teodor Rotrekl and František Škoda. The space ship became the symbol of technological progress, representing humankind’s yearning for distant worlds to conquer. The fascination of space travel is evident from the picture book Six Days on Moon 1, which speculated on what future technology would look like. Another favorite feature of sci-fi, the robot, was the subject of ethical and humorous speculations.<br />
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<h3>Between Radar and the Labyrinth</h3>
<p>Two unique book projects of the 1960s – the sci-fi anthologies Labyrinth and Tunnel to the Day after Tomorrow - were illustrated by avant-garde artists.<br />
Many of the latter also use the world of the future as subject-matter for their own free artistic activity. The works of Pavel Brázda and Věra Nováková struck a warning note, partly due to their rejection of Communism. The works of the artists’ grouping Radar were chiefly optimistic in tone. Július Koller’s archive of clippings demonstrates how mass culture was fascinated with futurist themes.<br />
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<h3>Retro-Futurism</h3>
<p>A number of present-day artists have gone back to the socialist era in search of unfulfilled visions of a future which has meanwhile become our present world – as a basis for their own work. These excursions into the past sometimes have a nostalgic feel that reflects the utopian promises that were part of the artists’ childhood. At the same time they are a critical tool for analyzing today’s world, which lacks a clear notion of the future. The artists represented include Jiří Černický, Vít Soukup, Adam Vačkář and others.</p>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMS</span></h3>
<p>DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art is preparing a series of accompanying programs in conjunction with the exhibition, chiefly presentations, lectures and discussions with experts, artists and theorists. The events take place in the Lecture Hall or the DOX Centre Café. The latest list of accompanying programs can be found on <strong>www.doxprague.org</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>A panel discussion entitled Memories of the Future </strong>will be held <strong>from 6pm on Wednesday 29. 9. 2010 </strong>featuring leading experts and writers on the exhibition's theme of “the future of the 1950s and 1960s that never happened”. The panel will speak about the promises of a communist utopia and the erroneous perceptions about the conquest of the universe. Principal guest: <strong>Ondřej Neff</strong>; event chaired by the exhibition’s curator, <strong>Ivan Adamovič</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>14.10. – 16.10.2010 a festival of classic Czech sci-fi films </strong>will be held at the nearby Bio Oko cinema. (Františka Křížka 15, Prague 7, www.biooko.net/cz)</p>
<p>Regular <strong>GUIDED TOURS </strong>will take place throughout the period of the exhibition <strong>each Saturday from 2pm</strong>, and a special <strong>EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM “ Journey to the Sun City”</strong> for schools, families and other interest groups has also been prepared.</p>
<p><br />
<u>Partners of DOX Centre</u>: <br />
<strong>Zdeněk Bakala<br />
City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., PREMIANT CITY TOUR<br />
The Exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</strong></p>
<p><u>Media partner of DOX Centre</u>:<br />
<strong>Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p><u>Partners of the exhibition<br />
</u><strong>ARBOR VITAE, Poštovní spořitelna, Era, Hewlett-Packard s.r.o, Legia, spol. s r.o.</strong></p>
<p><u><strong>CONTACTS</strong></u>:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art </span></strong><br />
<strong>Office</strong><br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Prague 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
<strong>Exhibition room </strong><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Prague 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours</strong><br />
Mon: 10am–6pm<br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11am–7pm<br />
Sat and Sun: 10am–6pm</p>
<p><strong><u>Contact for editors: <br />
</u>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<span style="color: #ff0000">Terezie Kaslová</span></strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
Phone: +420 603 551 372 <br />
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</p>
2010/09/02 - Autumn at the DOX Center
<p>P r e s s r e l e a s e /02. 09. 2010<br />
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<h2>Autumn at the DOX Center</h2>
<p>This autumn a number of outstanding exhibitions will be on offer to visitors to the DOX Center for Contemporary Art at Holešovice in Prague. Firstly, there will still be an opportunity to view the exhibition: Jan Kaplický: His Own Way, which has been extended until September 27. In addition to the Future of the Future exhibition that is currently running, there be an exhibition of the outstanding artist duo Gilbert and George, as well as the Planet Eden exhibition, which presents the aesthetics of the sci-fi genre in the period 1948-1978 period. Last but not least, the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize will present their work to the public.</p>
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<p><strong>• Jan Kaplický: His Own Way – exhibition extended through September 27, 2010<br />
• Planet Eden: Tomorrow’s World in Socialist Czechoslovakia 1948 - 1978<br />
( September 16. – November 29, 2010)<br />
• Gilbert & George: ROADS 1972 - 1992 (October 7, 2010 – January 2, 2011)<br />
• Events in conjunction with the Future of the Future exhibition (which continues through October 25): 12 HOURS OF THE FUTURE – A marathon of ideas and hypotheses (9 October 2010)<br />
• Metropolis (October 15 – December 30, 2010)<br />
• Jindřich Chalupecký Prize 2010 (November 4, 2010 – January 17, 2011)</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Future of the Future </strong>exhibition, which will run through October 25, focuses on our relationship to the future: it demonstrates how artists in very different fields, countries and generations have explored various images of the future, and even how people envisaged the future in the past.</p>
<p><strong>The PLANET EDEN: TOMORROW’S WORLD IN SOCIALIST CZECHOSLOVAKIA 1948 – 1978 </strong>exhibition will present the vision of the future as depicted in the art and popular culture of post-war Czechoslovakia. It also displays the context of the period that helped formed it, which was characterized by faith in the communist utopia and limitless scientific-technological development. In the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s, popular space-travel-related illustrations presented a compact Communist-utopian ideology of a better, technologically-advanced tomorrow. From the 1960s however, gradually mounting pessimism and concern over possible worldwide apocalypses that couldn't be overlooked began to creep in. Despite various restrictions, the science-fiction genre blossomed during that era. The exhibition doesn't attempt to narrate a detailed history of science-fiction in Czechoslovakia, but rather to illustrate through particular examples its aesthetic as manifested in book and magazine illustrations, film and design, and, at the same time, to demonstrate its influence on the art and architecture of that period. The exhibition presents original artifacts and their interpretation using contemporary methods of exhibiting. An extensive catalog will accompany the exhibition.<br />
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<strong>The Gilbert & George: ROADS 1972 – 1992 </strong>exhibition will introduce the renowned artistic duo Gilbert and George to the Czech public by presenting six works from the years 1972 - 1992. The artists, who became recognized for their specific kind of performance art called “living sculptures” in the early 1970s, are now identified with brightly-colored photo-based works that had a great impact on the generation of artists coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s, i.e., the period covered by the exhibition. The exhibition will run from October 9 through January 2. At the same period the Rudolfinum Gallery will host the international exhibition <strong>Decadence NOW!, </strong>which situates the work of Gilbert and George in that context.</p>
<p>Following its success at the Czech pavilion at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, the exhibition <strong>Metropolis</strong>, by leading exponents of the Czech street art and graffiti scene, returns home. A version of the exhibition slightly adapted to the DOX Center’s space will provide an opportunity to judge the level, quality and development of those six artists, whose names - Masker, Pasta, Tron, Skarf, Cryptic 257 and Point - have been in the public consciousness for the past fifteen years at least. The monumental installation will be on display from October 15 through December 31.</p>
<p>A total of 80 artists and groups applied or were nominated for <strong>the 2010 Jindřich Chalupecký Prize</strong>, the highest number in the history of the competition. The international jury selected the following names: the duo Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, Václav Magid, Jakub Matuška, Alice Nikitinová, and another duo - David Böhm and Jiří Franta.</p>
<p>An exhibition of their work entitled The 2010 Finalist will take place in the DOX Center of Contemporary Art from November 4, 2010 through January 17, 2011. This year’s prizewinner will be chosen in the course of the exhibition, and the award ceremony will take place on November 23; the dramaturgy of the event has been entrusted to the photographer Michal Pěchouček. <br />
Simultaneously an exhibition of all the previous winners of the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize will be held under the title Laureates 1990-2009, at which the work of the twenty previous prizewinners will be displayed. The third anniversary exhibition will be History – Recalling Jindřich Chalupecký. This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jindřich Chalupecký, whose death occurred 20 years ago last June.</p>
<p><br />
The following events are being organized In conjunction with the exhibition the Future of the Future:</p>
<p><strong>12 HOURS OF THE FUTURE: A marathon of ideas and hypotheses<br />
</strong>On <strong>October 9</strong>, a twelve-hour marathon will take place, at which forty representatives of various disciplines will react to present-day challenges in an event entitled 12 hours of the future , followed on October 12 by a forum attended by outstanding international figures. Both events are organized by the DOX Center in association with Respekt Institut and Forum 2000.<br />
Topics: Paradigm shift. Challenges of society in transition. Democracy – exhausted or imperiled? An economic model in crisis. Environmental challenges. Reflections of science and technology. The battle for public space and new media. Paths to preserving human dignity. More at www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p><strong>Accompanying programs take place regularly on Mondays and <br />
Thursdays. You can find more information at </strong><a href="http://www.doxprague.org"><strong>www.doxprague.org</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Partners of DOX Centre</u></strong>: <br />
Zdeněk Bakala<br />
City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., PREMIANT CITY TOUR<br />
The Exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong><u>Media partner of DOX Centre</u></strong>:<br />
Hospodářské noviny<br />
<u><br />
</u><strong><u>CONTACTS</u></strong>:<br />
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
Office<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org or <a href="mailto:media@doxprague.org">media@doxprague.org</a></p>
<p><span style="display: none" id="1285063977240E"><u>Exhibition room </u><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz">www.facebook.com/DOXPrague.cz</a></span></p>
<p>Opening hours<br />
Mon: 10–18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11–19<br />
Sat and Sun: 10–18</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000"><u>Contact for editors</u></span>: <br />
Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
Phone: +420 603 551 372 <br />
</p>
2010/07/28 THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release 28. 07. 2010</span></strong></p>
<h2>Where can you look into the future? At DOX!</h2>
<p><strong>TITLE OF THE EXHIBITION:</strong> THE FUTURE OF THE FUTURE<br />
<strong>VENUE:</strong> DOX Centre for Contemporary art<br />
<strong>OPEN: </strong>July 29 – October 25, 2010</p>
<p><strong>The Future of the Future exhibition, hosted by the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art from July 29 to October 25, focuses on our relationship to the future: it shows the way in which artists of different specialisations, countries, and generations explore various forms of the future or how people imagined the future in the past.</strong> <br />
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The future is a major topic that simply cannot be left without attention. The slogan of the new exhibition, “YESTERDAY WE DREAMT ABOUT THE FUTURE, TODAY THE FUTURE DREAMS ABOUT US” suggests that this interest goes in both directions. We perceive the future as something that observes at us from somewhere in front of us, asking: "Hey, what are you planning to do with me? What can I expect?"<br />
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The curator of the exhibition, Jaroslav Anděl, says that "we are right at the threshold of a major social and cultural change that, once again, brings forth the topic of the future." He adds, however, that it represents a different concern for the future than the one exercised so far, when the main thing the inhabitants of developed countries were interested in was unlimited growth and progress, regardless of the fatal damage that this hectic race for prosperity left in its wake.<br />
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Accepting the idea that it simply does not pay to divide the future from the past, and that everything is mutually interconnected, will help one better understand the work of the artists who are currently being introduced by DOX. What they share is both a serious and playful interest in the form of the future, the emphasis on sustainable development and in looking for ways to achieve it.<br />
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In Czech, the future tense phrase "I shall" (budu), originally meant "keeping vigil" or "being spiritually awake". Only later was this used as a verb for the future tense. The Czech words for awakening (budit) or supporting (povzbuzovat) are its relatives. It is no wonder, therefore, that it is the artists who keep vigil (Franz Kafka, for instance, referred to himself as one who "kept vigil"), who have insights, who "can see, forecast the future or who help it to be born by creation of new forms and concepts." (J. Anděl)</p>
<p><u><strong>Exhibiting Artists and Their Works <br />
</strong></u><strong>Jochen Gerz </strong>is represented by the online project Anthology of the Art. <br />
<strong>Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings </strong>depict a museum of modern art in 2058 in their film Museum Futures.<br />
Barbara Holub will introduce herself by announcing a new institution, The Blue Frog Society, her project that is being exhibited for the very first time.</p>
<p><strong>Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology], </strong>a not-for-profit group of designers artists, scientists and architects based in New York present their model of Brooklyn of the future, as well as a number of surprising ideas for the ecology of the big cities.<br />
<strong>Norman Klein</strong>, a cultural critic, urban and media historian, novelist and the author of experimental media forms, presents an interactive multimedia novel The Imaginary 20th Century.<br />
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Also part of the show is the experimental publishing project <strong>Die Planung / A Terv</strong>, which tries to envision the future in three journal issues dating from many years hence.<br />
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Through the work of artists coming from various fields, countries, and generations, the exhibition asserts that "the past and the future demand our care and neither of them can do without the other... thus making the spectator look at the present from a different perspective." (J. Anděl)<br />
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<strong>Jointly with the Respekt Institute and Forum 2000, DOX will host a twelve-hour marathon on October 9, 2010, during which 40 representatives of various specialisations will perform, responding to current social challenges. The event is called 12 Hours of the Future and it will be followed, on October 12, by a discussion with a renowned personality. </strong><br />
<u><br />
Partners of the DOX Centre</u>: <br />
<strong>Zdeněk Bakala, the City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Premiant City Tour s.r.o., Poster Infinity s.r.o.<br />
The DOX Centre is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<br />
</strong><u><br />
DOX’s media partner</u>: <br />
<strong>Hospodářské noviny<br />
</strong><br />
Accompanying programs take place regularly on Mondays and <br />
Thursdays. You can find more information at www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">CONTACTS:</span></strong><br />
<strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art </strong><br />
<u>Office<br />
</u>Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
<u><br />
Exhibition room </u><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
<br />
<u>Opening hours<br />
</u>Mon: 10–18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11–19<br />
Sat and Sun: 10–18<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for editors: <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
Phone: +420 603 551 372<br />
</p>
F2010/16/6 - Finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release / June 16th 2010</span></strong></p>
<h2>Finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award</h2>
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<strong>The finalists have been chosen for the twenty-first annual Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In total, 80 artists or groups have enlisted or been nominated for the award, which is the highest number in the history of the contest. The international jury has selected the following finalists: the artistic duo Vasil Artamonov and Alexey Klyuykov, Václav Magid, Jakub Matuška, Alice Nikitinová, and another pair of artists, David Böhm and Jiří Franta.</strong></p>
<p>An exhibition of works by the finalists will take place from<strong> 4 November 2010 to 17 January 2011 at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art</strong>. This year’s winner will be selected during the course of the exhibition, and the prize-awarding ceremony will take place <strong>on 23 November 2011</strong>. The evening will be moderated by artist Michal Pěchouček.</p>
<p>An exhibition of all previous winners of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award – <strong>Prize-Winners 1990-2009</strong> – will be held simultaneously at the same venue, featuring works by all the 20 prize-winners up to the present. The exhibition will be accompanied by a representative catalogue summarizing 20 years of the existence of this contest. A third exhibition will commemorate Jindřich Chalupecký as a history-making personality. All three exhibitions will open <strong>on 3 November 2010 at 7:00 p.m. at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.</strong></p>
<p>A radio and film documentary will be prepared to honor the anniversary of founding of the Jindřich Chalupecký Society. This year we also celebrate the centennial of the birth of Jindřich Chalupecký, who died 20 years ago.</p>
<p>The competition is designated for young Czech artists up to 35 years. The winner will receive 50,000 Czech crowns for his/her artistic development, a six-week scholarship in New York, and 100,000 Czech crowns towards the realization of his/her exhibition, project or catalogue during 2010. Initiated by playwright Václav Havel, poet and artist Jiří Kolář, and artist Theodor Pištěk, the Jindřich Chalupecký Award was establsihed in May 1990. Its first winner was Vladimír Kokolia; many of its subsequent winners now rank among top Czech artists.</p>
<p>Here is a brief introduction to this year’s finalists:</p>
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<p><strong>Vasil Artamonov (born 1980) and Alexey Klyuykov (born 1983)</strong> have been selected for the consistent quality of their oeuvre, which comprises a broad range of media spanning performances, installations, painting, sculpture and social projects. The artists demonstrate a profound knowledge of the history of art and respond to impulses from the past, mainly to Futurism and Suprematism. They use the history of art as a framework for their research, and use their work to respond to political issues connected with the development of democratic systems and capitalistic economies in the former Soviet bloc.</p>
<p><strong>David Böhm (born 1982) and Jiří Franta (born 1978)</strong> are among the finalists for the second time. Their joint oeuvre attracted the attention of the jury due to its perfect formal treatment, as well as for the artists’ concern for social and cultural issues. Their joint projects have been inspired by street art and graffiti and are a reaction to the institutional context of art. The jury took into account their “invisible” presentation last year, where it was possible to see the work only with participation of the viewer. The artists use painting and installation to accentuate phenomena which remain hidden to our perception.</p>
<p>In the case of <strong>Václav Magid (born 1979), </strong>the jury appreciated conceptual qualities of his oeuvre and his ability to interconnect a chain of events and references on a high intellectual level. Magid subjects reality to rational analysis using subtle irony, and his concentrated interest in selected situations has social implications. The jury also took into account Magid’s work as a curator and theorist, which is crucial both within the context of the artist’s own work and in the formation of the local artistic scene.</p>
<p><strong>Jakub Matuška (born 1981)</strong> applies in his work a street art approach within a framework of monumental painting. His easel-based paintings on canvas, precisely constructed in terms of composition and form, reveal interesting aesthetics and demonstrate his ability as a painter. Matuška achieves a clear, strong and rich expression with a Pop Art and Surrealist touch. The jury took note of his oeuvre and was eventually convinced by its painterly qualities and original style.</p>
<p><strong>Alice Nikitinová (born 1979)</strong> transforms everyday experience in her paintings, objects and installations. Entering one of her installations feels like looking through a magnifying glass; she creates an abstract world, reduced to the basics of existence. Using pictograms in a humorous way she creates juxtapositions to a plethora of moving pictures and arbitrary impulses. The jury’s attention was attracted by her concentrated approach and elimination of unnecessary elements. In many respects Nikitinová refers to the work of Kazimir Malevich, and, by extension, to her own background.</p>
<p><u>Members of the Expert Jury</u>:<br />
<strong>Susanne Altmann</strong> – freelance curator, Germany, Chair of the Jury<br />
<strong>Ondřej Chrobák</strong> – curator, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region<br />
<strong>Mira Keratová</strong> – curator and art theorist, Slovak Republic<br />
<strong>Pavel Liška </strong>– President of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Czech Republic<br />
<strong>Martin Mainer </strong>– artist, Czech Republic<br />
<strong>Joanna Mytkowska</strong> – Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland</p>
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<p><br />
<u>Organizers</u>:<br />
<strong>Jindřich Chalupecký Society<br />
Centrum současného umění DOX</strong></p>
<p><u>Partners of DOX Centre</u>: <br />
<strong>Zdeněk Bakala<br />
City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., PREMIANT CITY TOUR<br />
The Exhibition is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<br />
</strong><br />
<u>Media partner of DOX Centre</u>:<br />
<strong>Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p><u>Partners of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award</u>:<br />
<strong>E15, Respekt, Art&antiques, Český rozhlas 3<br />
Trust for Mutual Understanding<br />
The Foundation for a Civil Society</strong></p>
<p><strong><u>CONTACTS</u></strong>:<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</span>Office address</strong><br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org g</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition space:<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org</p>
<p><strong>Opening hours:<br />
</strong>Mon: 10–18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11–19<br />
Sat to Sun: 10–18<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><u>Contact for journalists: </u><br />
</span>Mediareport, s.r.o.</strong><br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372 <br />
<strong>Hana Pokorná</strong><br />
E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 270 521</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact – Jindřich Chalupecký Society</span></strong><br />
<strong>Lenka Lindaurová</strong><br />
M: 777 553 652<br />
E: lenkalindaurova@cjch.cz<br />
www.cjch.cz<br />
</p>
2010/15/04 JAN KAPLICKÝ - HIS OWN WAY
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">P r e s s R e l e a s e / A p r i l 15th 2010</span></strong></p>
<h1>JAN KAPLICKÝ – HIS OWN WAY</h1>
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NAME OF THE EXHIBITION: <strong>JAN KAPLICKÝ – HIS OWN WAY<br />
</strong>VENUE: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague</strong><br />
TERM: <strong>16 April – 2 August 2010</strong></p>
<p><br />
The exhibition <strong>“JAN KAPLICKÝ- HIS OWN WAY”</strong> will take place at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague from 16 April to 2 August, 2010. The exhibition covers the life and work of Czech architect Jan Kaplický, who spent most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. As testified by the name of Kaplický’s studio, Future Systems, the future was a central theme of his work even at the time when it ceased to be popular. The concept of the exhibition consists of a journey through time, allowing the viewer to follow in special installations the development of both Jan Kaplický’s work and his extraordinary life story.</p>
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A monumental spatial labyrinth with the area of more than 700 m2 features hundreds of meters of graphic installations documenting most of the projects by Jan Kaplický and his studio Future Systems. Sixty architecture and development models are displayed on tables especially designed for this exhibition. The scale of models starts from small items (such as jewelry with dimensions of 10 cm) up to the architecture of skyscrapers (with scale models up to 1.5 m). The exhibition also includes projections presenting Kaplický’s lectures, fashion designs, and fundamental sources of inspiration for his work. The overall theme of the exhibition is based on forms and color schemes typical of Kaplický: organic forms, the color gradient of the inner façade, and the floor covering evoke the complex environment of Kaplický’s visual world.</p>
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The exhibition has been prepared under the leadership of architect <strong>Eva Jiřičná </strong>in collaboration with the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, <strong>Eliška Kaplický Fuchsová, AI DESIGN, LN DESIGN, and ALBA DESIGN PRESS. </strong><br />
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<h2>JAN KAPLICKÝ</h2>
<p>Jan Kaplický was born in Prague, in 1937. Both his parents were artists; his father Josef a sculptor, painter, architect, and graphic designer, his mother Jirina illustrated botanical books with incredible skill and attention to detail.</p>
<p>Kaplický effectively experienced the two occupations of Czechoslovakia – the first by Hitler’s army when he was an infant, the second by the Soviets. His departure for England almost immediately after the Russian invasion in 1968 meant a radical change in his life.</p>
<p>In spite of the fact that he was an unknown immigrant, Kaplický managed to find employment with some of the most influential and innovative practices of that time: Denys Lasdun & Partners, Piano & Rogers Architects, and Foster Associates. His successful debut on the British architectural scene occurred very soon after he arrived in the UK, and eventually it was through the publication of his projects and photomontages that he became known internationally.</p>
<p>During his short engagement with the Louis de Soissons Partnership, he met David Nixon and together they went on to found a private practice called Future Systems. When David left for Los Angeles to continue working as an architect/designer, Amanda Levete became Kaplický’s business partner and, in due course, his wife. Their son Josef – named after his grandfather – was born in 1995.</p>
<p>The following period was full of successes for Kaplický and his practice, winning many competitions and building notable projects. The Lord’s Media Centre, in the famous London cricket grounds, was his first important building and was awarded the prestigious Stirling Prize for architecture. The next big project was a new site for Selfridges in Birmingham, which was listed as one of the most important buildings in the world by the Independent newspaper (UK) and received international acclaim.</p>
<p>During the filming of a biographical portrait of Kaplický – which premiered in 2004 – he met the producer Eliska Fuchsova, whom he married in 2007. The same year he won a competition for the new National Library in Prague and was awarded an Honoris Causa by the University of Applied Arts, where he had previously studied. The birth of the happy couple’s daughter on 14 January, 2009, was also, tragically, the day of Kaplický’s death.</p>
<p>Jan Kaplicky’s work has been exhibited all over the world in many prestigious locations, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the Biennale in Venice, and the Triennale in Milan, as well as in venues in China, Hong Kong, Tokyo, L.A, San Diego, and so on. He lectured in more than 25 countries and took part in numerous symposiums and workshops at Universities. Thirteen books were published about Kaplický, and he wrote several himself, expressing his observations and opinions. The albums “Sketches & Czech Inspirations” were published in the Czech Republic.</p>
<p>During his last 25 years in England, Kaplický was awarded 47 architectural prizes, including second prize in the competition for the National Library in Paris and first prize for the Visitor’s Centre at Stonehenge, UK.</p>
<p>Jan Kaplicky is rightly considered to be one of the most influential visionaries of modern architecture.<br />
<strong>- Eva Jiřičná</strong></p>
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<u>Partners of Centre DOX:<br />
</u><strong>Zdeněk Bakala, City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., POSTER INFINITY s.r.o.<br />
The Exhibition is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic<br />
</strong><br />
<u>Partner of the exhibition: <br />
</u><strong>DIRECT Pojišťovna, a.s.<br />
</strong>DIRECT Pojišťovna is a dynamic and innovative insurance company - these are also the attributes, which can be applied to Jan Kaplický unique architecture. This key figure of the modern architecture is connected with DIRECT Pojišťovna in more than one way: a department store in British Birmingham created by Jan Kaplický became the iconic structure of the turn of the millennium and it has been insured by its parent company, the British RSA Insurance Group Plc. RSA, which is proud of its 300 year history, offers its services in more than 130 countries all around the world and it holds more than 200 million customers.</p>
<p>DIRECT Pojišťovna entered the Czech market on 21 May 2007 offering a direct sale of car insurance. At first it offered MTPL insurance which was extended into casco insurance in August 2007. The service portfolio was extended into home insurance and liability insurance. The British insurance group RSA Insurance Group Plc. became the owner of DIRECT Pojišťovna in June 2009.</p>
<p><u>Exhibition Sponsors:<br />
</u><strong>HAVEL & HOLÁSEK, s.r.o., Vitra koncept, s.r.o., Galerie Zdeňka Sklenáře, Mazda Motor ČR</strong></p>
<p><u>Exhibition Supporters:</u><br />
<strong>CMC architects, a.s. , Cigler Marani Architects, a.s., Resort Living s.r.o.<br />
LIGLASS, a.s.<br />
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</strong><u>Media partner of DOX Centre: </u><strong><br />
Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p><u>Exhibition Media Partners:</u><br />
<strong>XANTYPA<br />
Český rozhlas 1 RADIOŽURNÁL<br />
REFLEX<br />
</strong><br />
Accompanying programs run every Monday and Thursday. For more info visit www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p><u>CONTACTS:</u><br />
<strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</strong>Office address<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org g<br />
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<strong>Exhibition space:<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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Opening hours:<br />
</strong>Mon: 10–18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11–19<br />
Sat to Sun: 10–18<br />
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<p><strong><u>Contact for journalists: </u></strong><br />
Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372 </p>
<p><strong>Hana Pokorná</strong><br />
E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 270 521 <br />
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2010/31/3 ART OF CHESS
<p>Press Release /March 31st 2010</p>
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<span style="color: #ff0000">The Art of Chess at the DOX Centre<br />
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<p>Name of the Exhibition: <strong>THE ART OF CHESS<br />
</strong>Date: <strong>1. 4. – 28. 6. 2010</strong><br />
Place: <strong>DOX, Poupětova 1, Praha 7<br />
</strong>Organiser: <strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in association with RS&A Ltd, London</strong></p>
<p>An exhibition of 15 specially comissioned chess sets designed by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists is presented by the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in association with RS&A Ltd, a London-based company dedicated to producing innovative projects with contemporary artists. The exhibition takes place from April 1st until June 28th, 2010. The ceremonial opening will include a blindfolded chess match between Russian grandmasters Boris Spassky and Anatoly Karpov.</p>
<p><i>“From my close contact with artists and chess players, I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”<br />
Marcel Duchamp, 1952</i></p>
<p>On display will be 15 specially commissioned chess sets designed by the following artists: <strong>Maurizio Cattelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Oliver Clegg, Tracey Emin, Tom Friedman, Paul Fryer, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Paul McCarthy, Alastair Mackie, Matthew Ronay, Tunga, Gavin Turk, and Rachel Whiteread</strong>. Each set is individually crafted in a variety of different materials, including wood, porcelain, glass, amber, and silver and packaged to the artist’s specified wishes.</p>
<p>The exact origin of chess is unclear, but the game is believed to have originated in the 7th century in India. No other game in history has been so widely reflected in art and literature. Due to its conceptual depth and deep roots in civilization, chess remains an intriguing and complex subject for the artist. The infinite incarnations of chess sets throughout history, which have closely followed artistic movements, is a testament to this and is continued into the present with the current artists creating outstanding works of art, each infused with their own signature style.</p>
<p>The Art of Chess exhibition demonstrates that the game has lost none of its inspirational power in the 21st century, and that it continues to be an optimal means for artistic expression.</p>
<p>For example, Rachel Whiteread set out to pursue her love of dollhouses when creating her game from miniature furniture. Tom Friedman’s chess set is equally intricate and playful, intended to be a mini-retrospective of the artist’s best-known works. Barbara Kruger has created the first ever talking chess set, with each piece specially programmed so that, when moved, it either asks a question or makes a statement. The set by Damien Hirst has glass and silver casts of medicine bottles with etched silver labels that act as chess pieces. The Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy is a keen chess player, and his set is made from random objects found in his own kitchen, such as a coffee grinder and ketchup bottles serving as rooks.</p>
<p>Accompanying programs run every Monday and Thursday. For more info visit www.doxprague.org.</p>
<p>Partners of DOX: <strong>City of Prague, TECHO, a.s., Ministerstry of Culture<br />
</strong>Media partners: <strong>Hospodářské noviny<br />
</strong>Exhibition partner: <strong>Prague Chess Society</strong></p>
<p><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">CONTACTS:<br />
</span>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
</strong>Office address<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org g</p>
<p><strong>Exhibition space:<br />
</strong>Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
<strong><br />
Opening hours:</strong><br />
Mon: 10–18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed to Fri: 11–19<br />
Sat to Sun: 10–18</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Contact for journalists: <br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372</p>
<p><strong>Hana Pokorná</strong><br />
E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 270 521<br />
</p>
2010/24/03 ARTISTS ANONYMOUS: THE TRIAL
<p><strong><span style="color: #808080">Press Release / 24. 03. 2010</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>ARTISTS ANONYMOUS: THE TRIAL <br />
(25.3.-17.5.2010)</strong></p>
<p>The Trial is the first site-specific project created for the upper tower gallery. The work adopts the method of appropriation that reuses certain, most often commercial, objects or images and changes their context and meaning. The Trial’s subject, however, is not advertising or popular culture but political propaganda, notably the covers of the published records of the three largest show trials organized by the Czechoslovak Communist regime under the guidance of Soviet advisors in 1950 and 1952. While the work’s size and medium simulates the genre of monumental painting, its authors want to remain anonymous, invoking the anonymity of the original covers’ designers and the undisclosed nature of propaganda on one hand and questioning the notions of authorship and originality on the other. By extension, The Trial forces the viewer to think about other basic concepts, such as fact and fiction, ethics and aesthetics, art and life. The Trial thus seems to be an ideal complement to the exhibition of the group Pode Bal Malík urvi II located in the galleries below.</p>
<p>Partners of Centre DOX: <strong>City of Prague and TECHO, a.s.<br />
</strong>The Exhibition is supported by <strong>Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<br />
</strong>Media partner of the exhibition: <strong>Hospodářské noviny</strong></p>
<p>Accompanying programs take place on Mondays and Thursdays. For a complete program, please check www.doxprague.org.<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">CONTACTS:</span></strong><br />
<strong>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</strong>Office<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927 <br />
E: info@doxprague.org<br />
<br />
<strong>Exhibitions</strong><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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<strong>Opening Hours<br />
</strong>Tues: closed<br />
Wed - Fri: 11 – 19<br />
Sat - Mon: 10 – 18<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Publicity<br />
</span></strong>Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372 <br />
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<strong>Hana Pokorná<br />
</strong>E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 270 521 <br />
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2010/14/1 František Matoušek: De Nimes
<p><span style="color: #808080">Press Release /14. 01. 2010</span></p>
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<h2><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">František Matoušek: de Nîmes </span></strong></h2>
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<strong>The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art wishes to announce that it will be holding an exhibition of paintings by František Matoušek from 15 January to 15 March 2010. This will be the first extensive show of Matoušek's works, which is surprising in view of the fact that he is one of the most significant Czech painters of the middle generation.<br />
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Like his contemporaries at home and abroad, Matoušek frequently tackles the theme of memory. He does so, however, in a way that is strikingly personal and specific, particularly with respect to his choice of material and painting techniques. Matoušek paints on denim: jeans cloth. The name of the fabric betrays its historical origins (denim="de Nîmes" i.e. from the French city of Nîmes). In Matoušek's case, however, the choice of this material is not a reference to the earlier history of Europe but to the recent era of so-called "real socialism", i.e. the period when Matoušek was growing up and when denim symbolised a longing for a freer life.</p>
<p>Matoušek developed a special technique for working with this textile, which is a combination of manipulation of the fabric weave and application of acrylic pigment. Matoušek's style of painting also consists of his approach to the various genres within which he works - portraits, landscapes, urban exteriors or intimate interior scenes of family life. A key element is Matoušek's complex use of photographic and other pictorial sources, which is evident particularly in his portraits. For instance, in a painting based on an old family photograph he dresses the person portrayed in a jeans jacket.<br />
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Another of his portraits is reminiscent in its concept to Picasso's Blue Period, although this is not the artist's intention and it is definitely not a quotation of any specific work. Matoušek's method might be described as "iconographic sandwiching", but an apter metaphor to describe his approach are those memory processes where collective and individual experience are linked in ever new and original ways. His works have a unique status on the Czech art scene in terms of their multiplicity of genres, technical innovation and original treatment of the theme of memory. They also beg interesting comparison with the output of his contemporaries in the rest of the world. For that reason Matoušek's oeuvre merits far greater attention from both local and foreign critics than it has received so far.</p>
<p><br />
Partners of Centre DOX:<strong> City of Prague and TECHO, a.s.</strong><br />
The Exhibition is supported by <strong>Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<br />
</strong>Media partner of the exhibition: <strong>Hospodářské noviny<br />
</strong><br />
Accompanying programs take place on Mondays and Thursdays. For a complete program, please check www.doxprague.org.</p>
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<p><strong>CONTACTS:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
</span>Office</strong><br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions</strong><br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org</p>
<p><strong>Opening Hours</strong><br />
Tues: closed<br />
Wed - Fri: 11 – 19<br />
Sat - Mon: 10 – 18<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Publicity</span></strong><br />
Mediareport, s.r.o.<br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová<br />
</strong>E: kaslova@mediareport.cz<br />
media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372</p>
<p><strong>Hana Pokorná</strong><br />
E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 270 521<br />
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2009/22/10/ Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2009
<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">PRESS RELEASE - Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2009</span></strong></h3>
<h3><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">The 20th Annual Jindřich Chalupecký Award at the Centre for Contemporary Art DOX<br />
</span><br />
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<p>On October 22, the 2009 Jindřich Chalupecký Award finalist exhibition will be opened at Dox, Centre for Contemporary Art in Holešovice, Prague. Forty nine artists or art groups have applied or have been nominated this year. The 2009 exhibition features work by five finalists selected by the jury: Tomáš Džadoň, the art duo of Jiří Franta and David Böhm, Petra Herotová, Alena Kotzmannová, Jiří Skála. Each finalist has created a new project for the exhibition which, in most cases, responds directly to the gallery space. <strong>The exhibition will run until January 10, 2010.</strong><br />
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This year's winner of the prize will be decided and later announced during a <strong>ceremony on November 12, 2009. </strong>The ceremony will take place as a staged theatre play written especially for this occasion by Michal Pěchouček, the 2003 Jindřich Chalupecký Award winner The 2009 prize winner will receive: 100.000 CZK to realize an exhibition, project or a catalogue (during the year 2010); six-week scholarship in New York (spring or autumn 2010) and 50,000 CZK cheque to support the artist’s future artistic development. A catalogue has been prepared to accompany the exhibition.</p>
<p><strong>Finalists<br />
Tomáš Džadoň<br />
</strong>Playful installations by Tomáš Džadoň (born 1981) combine elements of folk architecture and socialist modernism with the spirit of the modern times. He mixes these contradictory but personally experienced aspects of the tradition into absurd collages. His works often confuse the audience. On the 4th floor of the gallery, Džadoň created a fictional space of a disassembled prefab flat where he had spent his childhood. The scale of the aesthetic kit corresponds to real proportions including details of the windows and the balcony. The installation includes a video of the infinite, bi-directional flow of a river.</p>
<p><strong>Jiří Franta a David Böhm<br />
</strong>The art duo of Jiří Franta (born 1978) and David Böhm (born 1982) has already for some years worked with wall paintings. They have a feeling for monumental expression and a talent for the smallest detail. They shift the possibilities of painting presentation by combining painting and installations or texts. <br />
For Finalists 09 exhibition they created a wall painting on the 3rd floor of the Dox's tower. Part of it is is visible and part of it can be read only if lit up with a special flashlight.</p>
<p><strong>Petra Herotová<br />
</strong>Drawing and video represent the basic means of artistic expression of Petra Herotová (born 1980). It is with the help of these techniques that she searches for the meaning of personal identity. In her art, contemporary conceptual strategies are applied on family problems and everyday life. In Dox she will exhibit an installation called Petra Herotová based on a peculiar research by the artist related to an identity of a person with the same name.</p>
<p><strong>Alena Kotzmannová</strong><br />
Photographs by Alena Kotzmannová (born 1974) are characteristic for their elegance, delicacy and narrative charge. Their resemblance to paintings alludes to the classics of the Czech photography school. Their sophisticated installation is used as independent artistic means of expression. <br />
The artist's installation will most likely be a surprise for the audience. Her new project is represented by a monumental rusty boat with a curious modern building on the terrace of the gallery. <i>"Brothels and colonies are two extreme types of heterotopia, and if we think, after all, that the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea and that, from port to port, from tack to tack, from brothel to brothel, it goes as far as the colonies in search of the most precious treasures they conceal in their gardens, you will understand why the boat has not only been for our civilization, from the sixteenth century until the present, the great instrument of economic development (I have not been speaking of that today), but has been simultaneously the greatest reserve of the imagination. The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates". Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias.</i></p>
<p><strong>Jiří Skála<br />
</strong>Jiří Skála (born 1976) is not afraid to experiment and embark on incalculable adventures. Compared to last year, when he was also a finalist, Skála has freed himself even more radically from the language of visual art to embrace experimental forms of literature. In his installation on the first floor of the Dox's tower he combines video and literary texts and gives a summary of his last year's linguistic, philosophico-artistic experiments.</p>
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<p><strong>Members of the 2009 jury are:<br />
Suzanne Altmann</strong>, independent curator, Germany, jury chair<br />
<strong>Ondřej Chrobák</strong>, curator, GASK Gallery/The Central Bohemian Gallery, Czech Republic <br />
<strong>Mira Keratová</strong>, curator a art theoretician, Slovakia<br />
<strong>Pavel Liška</strong>, chancellor of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Czech Republic<br />
<strong>Jan Merta</strong>, artist, Czech Republic<br />
<strong>Joanna Mytkowska</strong>, director of the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland</p>
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<strong>Exhibition co-ordination:</strong> Lenka Lindaurová, Dan Merta, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Irena Šorfová and Dana Tomášová. <br />
Graphic design: Jan Šerých<br />
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<strong>Partners and media partners of Jindřich Chalupecký Award:</strong> <br />
Ministerstvo kultury České republiky, Reflex, The Foundation for a Civil Society, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Taprint, Meetfactory, E15, Flash Art, artyčok.tv and Art&antiques.<br />
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<strong>Special thanks to: </strong>Gema Art, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Galerie města Blanska, tranzitdisplay , ENIAC digital cinema Jiří Staněk, Monogramista T.D., Jozef Sekula PISA, Aleš Uherka and CIDEM Hranice<br />
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<strong>Partners of DOX:</strong> The City of Prague and TECHO, a.s. Financial support od Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.</p>
<p><strong>Contact<br />
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art </strong><br />
Office<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
E: media@doxprague.org<br />
Tel: +420 224 930 927<br />
Exhibitions <br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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Side programs take place on Mondays and Thursdays. For a complete program, please check www.doxprague.org</p>
<p><u><strong>Publicity:</strong></u> <br />
<strong>Terezie Kaslová</strong><br />
E: kaslova@mediareport.cz <br />
T: +420 603 551 372 <br />
or: media@doxprague.org</p>
<p>Mediareport, s.r.o.</p>
<p><strong>Kontakt Jindřich Chalupecký Award: </strong><br />
Lenka Lindaurová<br />
E: lenkalindaurova@seznam.cz <br />
T: 777 553 652</p>
<p>www.jchalupecky.cz<br />
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2009/20/08/ The exciting Fall Season at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
<p><strong>Press Release August 20, 2009<br />
</strong><br />
This Fall, visitors to the DOX centre in Prague-Holesovice will be able to see an impressive exhibition of Douglas Gordon and the contraversial sculpture Entropa by David Cerny, as well as seven new exhibition projects. They can also attend lectures, participate in discussions, and generally enjoy themselves on the premises.</p>
<p>One of the most respected living multimedia artists, <strong>Douglas Gordon </strong>creates works in film, video, photography, text, and sound installations. Produced by DOX, the Douglas Gordon exhibition <strong>Blood, Sweat, Tears </strong>is on display until September 27., accompanied by a series of lectures on the subject of memory and its representation in the visual arts, and on the complex relations between film and art. There is also a mini-festival of films selected by the artist to be held at the Ponrepo Cinema on September 13 and 14. <br />
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In collaboration with <strong>The Fifth International Biennale Industrial Traces 2009</strong>, DOX will present the third annual exhibition of projects on the subject of the conversion industrial architecture landmarks, by students of Czech art and architectural schools (October 1 – November 1). <br />
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The exhibition <strong>My Europe</strong> features works by 40 contemporary Czech artists from the fields of architecture, design, and art, each of whom utilized different media to express their personal take on the notion of Europe and the European Community (October 6 – November 18).<br />
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Czech artist David Cerny‘s multimedia kinetic sculpture <strong>Entropa</strong>, on view until January 4, 2010, presents a sardonic reflection on stereotypes associated with individual European countries. It also allows DOX visitors to give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to this controversial work by using ballots available at the Centre or by casting a vote online at www.tyden.cz.<br />
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The core of the DOX Fall Season comprises exhibitions that commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Communist regime through thought-provoking installations that examine the current and communist methods of persuasion. <strong>Tomorrow Starts Yesterday </strong>highlights an encounter of past and present by juxtaposing found moving and still images. For instance, it brings together two monumental video installations – one using documentary footage of a Communist military parade in Prague in 1955 produced in a „Hollywood style“, the other showing the closing sequence of the internationally acclaimed Czech Dream, a 2004 documentary account of a fictitious supermarket. The conjunction of the political and commercial modes of persuasion also appears in the installation by the group Pode Bal, which lays bare different aspects of propaganda and advertising (October 7 – November 23). <br />
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<strong>The StB Registry of Persons of Interest </strong>installation (the acronym stb stands for Statni bezpecnost, the former State Secret Police) harnesses devices of contemporary art to examine one of the most contentious topics of post-Communist society. It takes on the explosive subject of access to the archives of the Communist Secret Police, while bringing attention to the increasingly ubiquitous phenomenon of surveillance (November 11, 2009 – February 28, 2010).<br />
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The DOX centre is proud to host the <strong>Chalupecky Award 2009 </strong>exhibit, featuring works by six nominated artists (two of them work as a team) and marks the 20th anniversary of the Chalupecky Prize (October 23, 2009 – January 10, 2010). The winner will be announced on November 12.<br />
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In December, DOX will launch two exhibitions devoted to the <strong>Hotel Chelsea </strong>in New York, the legendary home to many important artists, writers, filmmakers, actors, and composers. The hotel became famous as the intersection of different lives, cultural legends, social and artistic developments, weaving together a fascinating story of the modern age. The exhibition <strong>Chelsea Hotel: Ghosts of Bohemia </strong>highlights<strong> </strong>three artists who represent three different generations of American bohemia and its development in the late 20th century: Harry Smith, Andy Warhol, and Robert Mapplethorpe. The exhibition also includes films and videos by Jonas Mekas and Michel Auder ( December 4 – March 7, 2010). <br />
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<strong>Julie Calfee: Inside, The Chelsea Hotel </strong>features works by an American photographer who captured the hotel’s unique atmosphere in a series of images that are on display for the first time in an extensive exhibit. Lectures, readings, and screenings organized in conjunction with the two exhibitions will familiarize the public with leading bohemians. It will also address the question of bohemianism today and the role of this lifestyle-cum-ideology in the 20th century (December 4, 2009 – February 15, 2010).<br />
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2009/07/10/ My Europe
<p>PRESS RELEASE<br />
My Europe<br />
Czech Contemporary Art and Design Exhibition in DOX Prague<br />
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October 8 – November 2009</p><p>Text: Eva Eisler, Jiří Rosenkranz <br />
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After its successful premiere in Brussels, the My Europe exhibition is on its way to Prague. Eva Eisler and the Czech Centres will present it at the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art from October 7 until November 18, 2009. The participating artists, selected for the project by curator Eva Eisler, have addressed the concept of Europe and the European community with a variety of media and methods.<br />
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Individual views of Europe by a wide group of artists fit within the concept of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation as declared for 2009 by the European Union, the exhibition’s original initiator. “When selecting the artists for My Europe, my approach was to create a community of strong personalities active in different areas of art, architecture and design and to get them to treat a joint theme by creating works which might reach outside their customary style both formally and conceptually. At the same time, all of the artists have maintained their unique style of expression and conveyed their personal attitude to Europe and the European project,” says Eva Eisler, the show’s organizer, curator and architect, of the show’s concept.<br />
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The artists invited to join the project constitute a wide spectrum, from members of the student generation to world-renowned personalities. From their disparate works, the curator has created a single whole expressing the idea of the European Union as an unfinished puzzle of individual pieces that, together, will slowly form a future European unity.<br />
The participating architects and designers were able to express their relationship to the Old Continent entirely on their own terms. For example, Petr Nikl created a pair of ‘eyeglasses for dreaming’ while architects Josef Pleskot and Jan Kaplický are represented by delicate jewelry pieces. Among other artists represented are Veronika Bromová, Milan Cais, Václav Cigler, Federico Díaz, Jiří Kovanda, Tomáš Medek, Jakub Nepraš, Rudolf Netík, Jiří Pelcl, Maxim Velčovský, as well as the show‘s curator, Eva Eisler.<br />
The assignment for each artist was to create an object whose dimensions would not exceed 50 cm in any direction. The works are placed in glass vitrines arranged in a 25 meter-long line to form a kind of stationary train. The choice of artists suggests that inside the train a dynamic dialogue is taking place. The overall effect is that of a surprisingly cohesive collection of individual works that nonetheless testify to the singular approach and views of each artist.<br />
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The installation exudes a calm elegance and draws viewers in through its inner harmony. The exhibition also entails an installation of photographs mounted on aluminium panels where each participant is represented by one major work, adding to the dynamics of artistic confrontation. The installation is variable, easily assembled and transportable.<br />
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“My Europe is a project which cultivates within itself the views of personalities from the fields of architecture, design, and contemporary art. This concept ideally corresponds with the mission of DOX, namely crossing the borders between individual disciplines,” says Leoš Válka, director of the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. <br />
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To complement the exhibition, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art will stage a public Q&A with Eva Eisler on November 18, 2009, starting at 6 p.m.; the Q&A is part of an ongoing series on Czech design. The exhibition’s premiere in Brussels and its Prague installation are achieved with financial support from the Czech Centres and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, who are also the project’s official partners. <br />
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For more information contact:<br />
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Oddělení komunikace Českých center<br />
Česká centra<br />
Václavské nám. 816/49<br />
110 00 Praha 1<br />
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Jiří Rosenkranz M.A. Radka Labendz<br />
e-mail: komunikace@czech.cz e-mail: komunikace@czech.cz<br />
tel.: 234 668 253 tel.: 234 668 252 <br />
GSM: 724 722 623 GSM: 606 785 252<br />
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A detailed programme of the Czech Centres is available online at www.czechcentres.cz.<br />
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Office and mailing address<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
Tel: +420 224 930 927<br />
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Press contact: <br />
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DOX Centre for Contemporary, Architecture and Design<br />
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is an independent non-profit institution situated in Prague – Holešovice , Czech Republic presenting international contemporary art, architecture and design. The unique project in the Czech Republic opened in October 2008r. Mission of the centre is to present and advance contemporary art in the context of issues that are changing today´s world.<br />
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The Czech Centres<br />
The Czech Centres’ mission is to advance the dialogue of cultures between the Czech Republic and the international public, and to promote the Czech Republic’s culture, sciences and humanities, education, trade, and tourism. The Czech Centres operate 24 centres located in the world’s major capitals across 21 countries and 3 continents. The Czech Centres are funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. During the six months of the Czech Republic’s EU presidency, the Czech Centres held over 1,500 events that were attended by one million people.<br />
In 2009 the Czech Centre Tel Aviv began operations under the leadership of director David Stecher. The centre’s gala opening is scheduled for autumn of 2009.<br />
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Eva Eisler<br />
A prominent Czech-American designer and artist active in the areas of jewellery design, interior design, architecture and visual art. Eisler currently heads the metals department at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Eisler’s work is represented in many international public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum and Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, and Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal.<br />
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2009/30/09/ Acceptance – Intervention – Destruction in DOX Centre
<p>Acceptance – Intervention – Destruction. Delineation of three approaches to the industrial heritage of the past, but at the same also three thematic lines of a third exhibition of alternative projects by students. The AID Exhibition, presenting the approach of young architects to the values of industrial heritage in the context of contemporary thinking in architecture, will be open from October 1 through November 1 in the Centre for Contemporary Art DOX.</p><p>Press Release /30. 09. 2009<br />
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Acceptance – Intervention – Destruction in DOX Centre<br />
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Acceptance – Intervention – Destruction. Delineation of three approaches to the industrial heritage of the past, but at the same also three thematic lines of a third exhibition of alternative projects by students. The AID Exhibition, presenting the approach of young architects to the values of industrial heritage in the context of contemporary thinking in architecture, will be open from October 1 through November 1 in the Centre for Contemporary Art DOX.<br />
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“In addition to its true meaning, emphasizing help to and support for the Czech industrial heritage, that has doubtless come to be quite urgent over the past few years, the name AID is an acronym for three strategies and trains of thought most frequently applied in the course of conversion, namely, acceptance, intervention, and destruction,” explains Exhibition Curator Petr Vorlík. Coauthor Tomáš Šenberger notes: “Conversion is almost always associated with intervention in the original building substance, but the extent of intervention ensues from the conditions of conversion, character and form of building protection and by and large also the inner attitude (aggressiveness) of the author.”<br />
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The AID Exhibition, a part of the 5th International Biennial, Vestiges of Industry was organized by the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage of the Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT) in conjunction with DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, ČVUT Faculties of Architecture and Civil Engineering, the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (VŠUP), FUA TU Liberec, and other organizations. Students have come up with original conversions of many buildings that either await further uses or face demolition. The projects on display include the long-debated Nuselský mlýn, Braník Icehouses, Florian Schmidt Textile Mill in Krnov, railway station in Ústí nad Orlicí, or Český Těšín Malt House.<br />
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The exhibition of students’ projects to give a new lease on life to industrial heritage marks the peak of the 5th International Biennial, Vestiges of Industry 2009. “The projects raise new challenges inspired by current debates on endangered industrial buildings,” says Benjamin Fragner, one of the chief organizers of the biennial. “They perceive the limit situation of the decaying industrial age that we experience as a spent industrial compound turns into an endangered cultural monument. They attempt to come to terms with the heritage that we have yet to fully understand and that we touch with reluctance. The architectural visions presented should help us understand, grasp and reappraise this heritage.”<br />
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One of the side events in Café DOX is a polemical discussion on October 15, anchored by Benjamin Fragner, one of the chief organizers of the Vestiges of Industry Biennial, and Curator Petr Vorlík. To obtain more information on the side events, please visit www.doxprague.org.<br />
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The Vestiges of Industry Biennial is jointly organized by the ČVUT Research Centre for Industrial Heritage and the ČKAIT & ČSSI College for Technical Monuments in conjunction with the Czech ICOMOS National Committee, National Monument Institute, and the Ecotechnical Museum. In cooperation with the British Council, we are scheduling a conference under the keynote: Industrial Heritage in Professional-Amateur Vacuum. The 5th International Biennial, Vestiges of Industry is financially supported by the International Visegrad Fund (IVF). Complete information about the program of the Vestiges of Industry Biennial 2009 is available on www.industrialnistopy.cz.<br />
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Partners of DOX Centre: Capital City of Prague and TECHO<br />
DOX Centre programs are financially supported by the Ministry of Culture.<br />
Media Partner of DOX Centre: Hospodářské noviny<br />
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CONTACTS:<br />
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art <br />
Office Address (mailing address): <br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
T: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: info@doxprague.org or media@doxprague.org<br />
Exhibition space: <br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
(Tram: 5, 12, tram stop Ortenovo náměstí, Metro: Nádraží Holešovice)<br />
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Public Relations/ DOX Centre: <br />
Terezie Kaslová, E: kaslova@mediareport.cz or media@doxprague.org<br />
T: +420 603 551 372<br />
Hana Pokorná, E: pokorna@mediareport.cz<br />
T: +420 728 279 521<br />
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Contacts for the Vestiges of Industry Biennial 2002:<br />
SMART Communication s.r.o. <br />
Silvie Marková & Lucie Čunderliková<br />
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2009/11/06/ Entropa by David Černý at DOX
<p>Dox is a place, where the unpredictability of art is a value that allows an unexpected contribution. The project Entropa and its story is a clear example</p><p>„Dox is a place, where the unpredictability of art is a value that allows an unexpected contribution. The project Entropa and its story is a clear example,“ says Leoš Válka, director of DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, where the sculpture of David Černý will be exhibited from June 12 to January 4, 2010.<br />
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Famously controversial work, which the sculptor created to mark the Czech presidency of the European Union Council in Brussels, can be finally reviewed by the Czech citizens. <br />
For the duration of the exhibition at centre DOX, the visitors can here directly vote, whether they like or dislike Entropa. Their views can be expressed also at www.tyden.cz.<br />
The sculpture, which provocatively addresses the stereotype themes relating to each EU country, aroused many emotional discussions in the Czech Republic and the world as well. It iritated some Bulgarians – the „turkish“ squat toilet „representing“ Bulgaria had to be covered. <br />
The Public can look forward to a whole array of supporing activities. For example, there will be discussions about what does Europe mean for us. Another theme will be the promotion of Czech culture abroad. Exactly in this area did David Černý do already so much for the Czech Republic. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the sculpture is, from its marketing point of view, unbelievably successful – not many art works are able to capture the main news all over Europe! <br />
Černý mystified even the Czech government, since he presented the sculpture as the work of 27 European artists. In reality, Krištof Kintera a Tomáš Pospiszyl helped him create imaginary websites of non-existing fictional colaborators. Černý later apologized and added: „We knew that the truth will be revealed. We just wanted to know before that moment, whether Europe is able to laugh at itself. At the start there was a question, what do we really know about Europe.“ The sculpture Entropa „ is a parody of the socially activistic art, which balances on the edge between would-be controversial attacks on national character and an undisturbing decoration of official spaces“, said the author. <br />
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Partners of Centre DOX: City of Prague and TECHO, a.s.<br />
Media partner of the exhibition: weekly magazine Týden<br />
The Exhibition is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.<br />
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David Černý<br />
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In his work, David Černý often uses grotesque exaggeration and mystification, since he considers them rightfully as authentic tools of (not only) contemporary art. Let us recall the excitement caused by the Pink tank – the painted-over military tank– memorial to the Soviet army in Prague’s Smichov, in pink color (1991). This politically motivated action had a far reaching media coverage. Controversially can be also viewed Viselec- the Hanging man (1996) in Prague‘s Jilska Street or St. Wenceslas in the passage of Lucerna (1999) hanging upside down. More acceptably were viewed the giant Ten Babies placed at Žižkov TV tower (2001). A series of bronze models from the Czech history called Czech nativity scene can be seen at the Automotive Museum in Wolfsburg. Černý‘s works also include the interactive fountain in Prague‘s Herget Brick Mill (Hergetova cihelna), bus stop in Liberec or head accessible from behinds outside the Prague gallery Futura. Many financially-demanding and provocative works remain unrealized. <br />
And how was the beginning of this famous artist? He studied design and sculpture at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová) in Prague. With the independent scene at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s he was creating instalations and performances, and participated in the activities of Bullshitfilm. At that time he was exhibiting under the Stalin’s memorial and created Flying dollars for the Museum of Andy Warhol in Medzilaborce. His first greater public reception came with his sculpture Walking Trabant at Staroměstské náměstí (1990). He tried to agitate the public opinion through the mystifying event The Day of Killing in Madrid and London as part of the festival Edge 92. After the exhibition at Špálova galerie in 1993, Černý lived two years in New York (1994 - 1996). He exhibited at the Ronald Feldman gallery and participated in the traveling exhibition Beyond Belief. Upon his return he collaborated even in film projects<br />
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Other current and planned exhibitions at DOX centre <br />
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Douglas Gordon: Blood, sweat, tears – until September 27. An extensive exhibition of the work of one of the world’s most respected representatives of contemporary art, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon.<br />
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Fourteen S – Fourteen artists present fourteen themes influencing human relations, families, community and systems, which are formally connected with the letter S. Exhibition runs through August 16.<br />
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DOXNANO – until July 9, the project represents the colaboration of artists with scientific teams and workplaces in the sphere of new material technologies and at the same time it maps Czech artists who deal with new visual arts discipline, nanoART, and the thought concept of nano.<br />
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Contacts<br />
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Centre for Contemporary Art DOX <br />
Address of the office <br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1<br />
Tel: +420 224 930 927<br />
E: media@doxprague.org<br />
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Address of the exhibition spaces <br />
Poupětova 1a, 170 00 Praha 7 <br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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Open hours<br />
Mon: 10 – 18 <br />
Tue: closed<br />
Wed - Fri: 11 - 19<br />
Sat - Sun: 10 - 18<br />
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2009/03/06/ DOUGLAS GORDON: blood, sweat, tears
<p>Press Release JUNE 03.2009<br />
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Douglas Gordon: Blood, Sweat, Tears <br />
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From the 4th of June to the 27th of September 2009, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art presents an extensive exhibition of Scottish artist Douglas Gordon, one of the world’s most respected representatives of contemporary art. <br />
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</p><p>Gordon’s work was part of the invasion of moving images into galleries and museums, which transformed the white cube of gallery space into a black box in the 1990s. However, Gordon’s use of the moving image has never been driven by technology, but rather by his interest in perception, which he considers his central theme. He often examines the issues of memory and identity by manipulating images through slow motion, splicing, mirroring, and doubling. These methods not only refer to the efforts of contemporary neuroscience, but also bring to mind the work of the most significant Czech scientist of the 19th century, Jan Evangelista Purkinje, who paved the way to the rise of moving images in his studies of apparent movement and other subjective phenomena. In addition to film and video, Gordon uses other media, including audio and text installations or photographs. He frequently links questions of perception and interpretation with moral principles, demonstrating how concepts like truth and falsehood or good and evil are deeply anchored in our perception of time and space.<br />
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Gordon’s 24 hours Psycho (1993) is an important example in this respect. It is a take on Hitchcock’s film classic that is both simple and complex. By slowing down the movie projection almost to a halt, Gordon takes the narrative drive away from the movie to reveal stories that were hidden on a subliminal level and that add new dimension to the original narrative. Hitchcock’s masterpiece is deconstructed while new viewings and readings are made possible. Gordon achieved this paradoxical feat by foregrounding the technical and physiological basis of cinema, the fact that our brain transforms a stream of still images into an apparent or virtual moving image.<br />
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Like 24 Hour Psycho (1993), its new version 24 hour psycho back and forth and to and fro (2008), presented in Europe for the first time, slows down the projection of Hitchcock’s classic to a duration of 24 hours. This forces the viewer to relate the projected scenes to recollections of the original film and the time of the film to real time. In addition, the artist uses the reverse-projection technique and doubles the narrative as if reflected in a mirror, contradicting the arrow of time. <br />
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Feature Film (1999) draws attention to the significance of film score, using the example of Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (1958). The film’s soundtrack is complemented by the artist’s video of conductor James Conleon, as he directs the Paris Opera Orchestra’s performance of Bernard’s Hermann’s original score. <br />
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Play Dead; Real Time (2003) juxtaposes motion with immobility as a symptom of death. The panning camera captures a trained elephant that plays dead and stands up on command within the confines of a white gallery space. <br />
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10ms-1 (1994) explores the theme of memory and body motion by appropriating vintage medical footage of a soldier from World War I who repeatedly attempts to stand up, and fails. The title represents the equation that expresses the rate of acceleration of a falling human body.<br />
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The most extensive installation in the exhibition is Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work From About 1992 Until Now, to Be Seen on Monitors, Some With Headphones, Otheres Run Silently and All Simultaneously. As the title indicates, the installation presents a concise retrospective of Gordon’s film and video work for the last 17 years, highlighting the artist’s major themes and formal methods.<br />
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30 Seconds Text (1996) contains a report by a French doctor written in the first person. It describes an experiment conducted on the head of a criminal decapitated by guillotine. The text is illuminated for 30 seconds, which, according to the doctor, is the amount of time the human brain can continue responding after decapitation.<br />
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The exhibition also includes the artist’s numerous text installations. The most complex, Zidane, Portrait of the 21st Century (2006), a documentary feature about the legendary football player, was created in collaboration with Philippe Parreno and presented at the Cannes film festival. For the duration of 90 minutes of the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal, 17 cameras focused on one of the best football players in recent history, Zinedane Zidane, and captured his gestures, emotions and movements. The film is shown at the OKO movie theatre in conjunction with the exhibition. <br />
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Douglas Gordon has had more than 100 solo exhibitions on almost all continents and has received many prestigious international prizes, including: the Turner Prize (1996), the Venice Biennale Prize (1997), the Hugo Boss Prize (1998) and the Roswitha Haftmann Prize (2008). Beside shows in New York’s MOMA (2006) and the Guggenheim Museum in Berlin (2005), there were exhibitions of his work at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2007). <br />
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DOX has organized a series of lectures on the subjects of memory and perception in conjunction with the exhibition. The film program at the Ponrepo movie theatre is organized in collaboration with the National Film Archives in Prague.<br />
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The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with texts by Jaroslav Andel, Artisitic Director at DOX, Keith Hartley, Chief Curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Edinburgh, and Israel Rosenfield, Professor of History at the City University of New York. <br />
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Partners of DOX Centre: City of Prague and TECHO, a.s.<br />
Exhibition Partners: AV MEDIA, Hotel Maximilian<br />
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Present and future exhibitions<br />
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David Černý: Entropa – from June 12, 2009 till January 4, 2010.<br />
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Fourteen S /sorrow / solitude / sex / superego / concentration /dream<br />
/centre /connection/shadow/ fear/ meet/ shelter/ context/ death/ - till September 16, 2009.<br />
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DOXNANO! – from June 5, 2009 till July 9, 2009<br />
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Contacts<br />
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DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
Office:<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic<br />
Tel: +420 224 930 927, E: media@doxprague.org<br />
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Exhibition space: <br />
Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7 Holešovice, CZ<br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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DOXNANO
<p>Press release<br />
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10-9 m<br />
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DOX NANO!<br />
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Centre for Contemporary Art DOX, Holešovice, Prague<br />
5. 6. – 9. 7. 2009.<br />
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Exhibition DOX NANO! is focused on artistic visualization of the nanocosmos, space of the dimension 10-9 m. </p><p>The works of eighteen artists present nanotechnology, nanostructures and nanosystems as a tool and source of concept ideas as well as new understanding of reality. Focusing the different behavior of matter at the dimension of one billionth of a meter offers an excellent visual language for communication as well as new opportunities to formulate the old questions about the meaning of human existence.<br />
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DOXNANO! exhibition is accompanied by: <br />
a) popularization lectures on nanotechnology and third culture <br />
b) guided tours of artists participating in the project NANOSKOP <br />
c) nanoLAB by student David Černý – an art installation of scanning confocal microscope, mechanical nanoSPIDER, Detox COLOR, nanoDOG and other art oddities of the nanocosmos. <br />
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The exhibition is commencing a series of artistic events developed within the scope of the project NANOSKOP such as METRONANO! – nanoART in Prague Metro, MAKRONANO! – at Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry AS ČR, EASTNANO – at University of Pardubice.<br />
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The project NanoSKOP by TESLA Union represents outcome of the workshops between Czech artists and scientists in the form of contemporary artworks dealing with nanoART and broader concepts of the nano dimension. <br />
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The nanotechnology inspired artworks point to the present day scientific conferences on nanotechnology in the Czech Republic such as NICOM3, EuroNanoForum2009, Prague Meetings on Macromolecules. Consequently the NanoSKOP project serves also as a genuine artistic and communication outreach of these conferences.<br />
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Press conference will be held on the 2nd June 2009 at 11.00 at the Centre for Contemporary Art DOX, cafe <br />
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14 S
<p>Press Release MAY 22.2009<br />
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Fourteen S<br />
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This unusual exhibition, titled 14 S, organized by DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in conjunction with the civic group Schrodinger’s Cat along with the Czech Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy and the Czech Centres. Fourteen artists will exhibit work, which affect human relationships, families, societies and systems which are formally connected (in the Czech language) by the letter S. The exhibition will take place between May 23, 2009 and the 16th of August 2009.</p><p>fourteen S <br />
/sorrow / solitude / sex / superego / concentration /dream<br />
/centre /connection/shadow/ fear/ meet/ shelter/ context/ death<br />
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Among the participating artists are - Josef Bolf, Václav Buriánek, Jiří Černický, Superego, Ivana Lomová, Michal Nesázal, Petr Nikl, Michal Pěchouček, Viktor Pivovarov, František Skála, Pavel Tichoň, Libuše Vendlová, Kateřina Závodová, Kamila Ženatá – react mainly to their own intimate emotional experiences, which they deal with through a variety of media: painting, video, photography, installation and text. The project is curated by Milena Slavická and Kamila Ženatá.<br />
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The exhibition will take place as part of an important occasion. In May, Prague will play host to the International Conference of the Group Section of the European Federation of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy (EFPP), attended by European experts and guests from non-European countries. The name, Bridging Identities – Clinical Impact of Groups, indicates the main theme of the conference – finding ways to connect or bridge various entities (professional, clinical or ethnic, social and other groups). It is the first time the conference is taking place in a former East-bloc country. <br />
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Fourteen artists, of different generations, will present fourteen themes that are formally connected (in the Czech language) with the letter S. Themes like identity, the search for one’s roots, loss, and the search for the meaning of life -are contemporary topics in today’s world. Parallel universes, virtual worlds, estrangement, damaged personal relationships, the inability of communication and feelings of loneliness are the current social wounds. This group exhibition is comprised of Czech artists who have been dealing with these topics in their work over a long period of time.<br />
The conference panel, formed by a local organization, Czech Society for Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, decided to produce this concept, Bridging Identities in real time and space. This project plays witness to an unorthodox connection between the fields of science and art, exploring and describing a creative world, which is capable of reacting to these social themes on a common level, which enriches our lives. This visual project is therefore an integral part of the conference, which aims to reflect a mutual, deep connection between the cultural and psychological processes in our contemporary society.<br />
Fourteen artists will present fourteen themes, which are formally connected to the consonant S. Kamila Zenata, one of the curators of the project explains why she chose the fourteen S’s, „It’s weird, but many Czech words, which begin with the letter S, are associated with very important themes connected to our experience of the world around us. This theme of identity, the search for ones roots, the inability to communicate and feelings of loss are the very contemporary emotions. Each of the artists received their S word. It wasn’t a difficult choice, as the represented group of artists are already very close in their work to precisely these words.“<br />
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Kamila Zenata along with Milena Slavicka, is not only the curator of the project, but is also a member of the conference preparation panel. She has dedicated many years to working with groups, as she is primarily interested in communication problems, relationships, and groups. „The theme of identity and the inner self is where I draw inspiration for my work from, so the relation of these aspects of human life are a lifelong study,“ explains Zenata.<br />
Mutual documentation of the conference and the exhibition will be a two-part catalogue/compilation. The catalogue will present profiles of the participating artists, their texts, and reproductions of their work. The compilation will cover conference-related material. The catalogue/compilation will be both in Czech and the English language.<br />
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As part of the DOX Accompanying Programs – Café DOX, there will be a lecture series and presentations on two topics: the goals of psychotherapy, and the language of the mute (dreams, images, imagination)...<br />
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The inaugural lecture of the International Conference of Group Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, which is taking place in DOX centre on the 28th of May, is accessible to the public, will be presented by the renown British group therapist, Earl Hooper. Included in the price of conference admission is a catalogue and anthology of lectures in four languages. More info: http://www.efpp2009.cz/cs/registrace.html<br />
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Partners of DOX Centre: City of Prague and TECHO, a.s.<br />
Exhibition Partners: City of Prague, Pražská teplárenská, a.s., Aaron Group, SAN, European Furniture Factory<br />
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Kontakty<br />
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Občanské sdružení Schrödingerova kočka/Schrödinger´s Cat, www.schrodingerovakocka.cz<br />
Česká společnost pro psychoanalytickou psychoterapii v Praze, www.cspap.cz<br />
Česká centra www.czechcentres.cz<br />
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DOX Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
Office:<br />
Vojtěšská 8, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic<br />
Tel: +420 224 930 927, E: media@doxprague.org<br />
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Exhibition space: <br />
Poupětova 1, 170 00 Praha 7 Holešovice, CZ<br />
www.doxprague.org<br />
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Opening hours<br />
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Wed-Fri 11 am – 7 pm<br />
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Night of Human Rights at DOX Centre of contemporary art
<p>coming soon...</p>
Meet the Artists in DOX
<p>Following its opening, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art has launched its accompanying programmes Café DOX comprising of lectures, talks, readings, discussions, panels, etc. Its five series are the following: "Meet the Artist", "Meet the Architect / Designer", "Meet the Author"; "Encounters of Art & Science"; and "Public Space".<br />
They take place every Monday (except State Holidays) at 6PM unless otherwise noted.<br />
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Opening DOX
<p>DOX Centre for Contemporary Art is a newly established independent institution situated in Prague-Holešovice, presenting international contemporary art, architecture and design. A unique project in the Czech Republic, it will open on October 19, 2008, after five years of planning and construction.</p>