The aim of the Artlist:Talk project – similar to Artlist itself – is to provide the interested public with an understanding of contemporary artistic approaches and expressions, which in this case is complemented by the unique perspective of the artists themselves.
Individual artists represented in the Artlist database also gain the opportunity to present their work in the form of a separate lecture, the recording of which will then expand and update their existing database entries.
Moderated signpost
of Czech post-war and contemporary art
recommended
Svoboda’s photographs became larger, he focused on tiny episodes of vision (the subject becomes the light itself), and revelled in cycles that dealt with highly artistic problems of tonality and shades of photographed reality, or with the meticulously thought-out composition and space of the image. In addition to the archetypal subjects he had previously favoured, he introduced into his photographs ephemeral elements (light, flowers, salt, objects lying around his own apartment), spiritual references (in the form of quotations from the work of other artists, which replaced the religious statuettes photographed in his early work) and references to his models (he depicted mainly Cézanne’s reproductions or books about him and his library).
Moscow/Women/Sunday is a series of photographs, which Daučíková created during her stay in Moscow at the end of the 1980s. Over 100 portraits of women originated in the streets of Moscow on Sundays, which was when they would generally go shopping. The manner in which individual women are captured, deliberately contradicts the stereotypical image of a Soviet woman as an asexual creature. Instead, Daučíková focused on individual depiction with an emphasis on the varied age, looks, character and social class. In this way, she addresses both, the different forms gender functions in, as well as how it intertwines with social context – primarily with poverty or other less reflected social realities.
Cultural and historical contexts of Czech visual arts.
Artlist documents the development of Czech visual art in its various manifestations (artistic, theoretical and curatorial production, exhibition venues, keywords) from the second half of the 20th century to the present.
Artlist is a continuous project of the Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, developed and available as an online database since 2006.
Important: Profiles and their list sections are current at the time of the entry’s creation (see the date provided with the text); updates do not occur automatically. These entries do not substitute for the official websites of the artistic entities.
