#3 Transforming of Symbols
The category of symbol and working with the symbol is elusive, a purely sophisticated way of categorization from the point of view of art history and art criticism. For that reason, the selection of authors is even more relative than with the previous themes. Moreover, while some of the artists we have selected have worked with symbol throughout their career, with others in some stages of their work we could speak rather of subjective documentary, conceptualism, minimalism, or even other things. Such is, however, the fate of categories of art-theory – they do not allow an exact definition of the set of works of art that they attempt to define.
#39 delight, pain — Profiles
Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw’s profile could easily be presented as the trajectory of a succesful artist in which long-term themes are convincingly developed, the productive complexity of their elaboration increases, and in which exhibitions in the world’s leading institutions increase as well as the works represented in their collections…
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Zara Pfeifer
The Viennese housing complex Alterlaa can certainly be seen as an embodied form of utopian architecture. We can find this monumental project, designed in the 1970s by Harry Glück, in the 23rd district, in a peaceful area on the outskirts of the city…
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Paul Maheke
“There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise”, begins a seductive essay by Audre Lorde. “The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling…
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#39 delight, pain — Wanted
Marie Tomanová
It Was Once My Universe is the story of a homecoming after a decade in the United States. The family farm – a dream house, a refuge for the imagination in exile – has become a foreign and uncanny world apart, moving in its own time field…
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Julie Béna
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading…
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Content
- ––– Profiles
- Alena Kotzmanová
- Štěpánka Šimlová
- Jiří Černický
- Michaela Thelenová
- ––– Theory
- Fixed Light
- ––– Events
- Robert Capa - Face of History
- The Thirteenth Month of Photography in Bratislava
- Czech Photography Abroad 2002-2003
- Paris Photo 2003
- ––– Reviews
- Ars Electronica Festival
- Annika Larsson
- Magical, Ironic, Blurred. photography from the north
- Funke's Kolín 2003
- On Chinese Photography
- Photographs of Pavel Baňka
- Of Bodies and Other Affairs
- A Retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Rössler - Man of the Future
- ––– History
- Rudolf Skopec
- ––– Portfolios
- Oleg Kulik
- Marcos López
- Sarah Lucas
- Jiří David
- Jiří Toman
- ––– Tendencies
- Shirley Wegner
- Jeremy Kalgreen
- Vít Šimánek
- Jiří Křenek
- Rocky Mccorckle
- Dušan Skala
- Věra Stuchelová
- Lars Borges
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face
