Zuzana Krkošková - Untitled (Homage to Demartini)

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Zuzana Krkošková

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 2010

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:00:27
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Compilation containing the work: He Who Laughs
Attachment included with work’s publication: booklet CZ/EN

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Included in the compilation He Who Laughs: Art About the World of Art (edited by T. Nekvindová, S. Sobotovičová). “Art about art” – videos that aim directly at the art world or wend their way through art history. Published in 2013 by the Research Centre of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (VVP AVU).

Archived separately as .avi format.

Adopted text on the work: In her short videos, Zuzana Krkošková records her life in the rural countryside of Moravia’s Haná region. The videos were first exhibited by Blanka Švédová and Pavla Krkošková-Byrtusová, who also gave them their titles. Influenced by their knowledge of art history, the curators thus gave the works a meaning not originally intended by their author. In 1968, Hugo Demartini created six “immediate” sculptures, constellations made of pieces of wood and wood scraps thrown into the air. Krkošková’s tree trunks dumped from a wagon could be seen as an allusion to this 1960s experiment. We are including the video as an example of a curatorial intervention in which the work is “made complete” by what others see in it.
Source of text: Edice VIDA 4, VVP AVU, 2013
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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