Ondřej Brody, Kristofer Paetau - To Lose

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Ondřej Brody, Kristofer Paetau

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 2011

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:02:55
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).

Adopted text on the work: The video’s title is a Duchampian play on words (specifically, homophones): the English “to lose” sounds the same as the name of 19th-century French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, an aristocrat known for his short stature and duck-like gait whose paintings depicted the life of prostitutes and the pubs and cabarets of Paris’s Montmartre. For this short film, the two artists hired an actor resembling Toulouse, and had him talk about the possible ways of approaching one’s first important exhibition. In so doing, they comment on the strategies of today’s artists and curators. What is art? When and how does an artist become a “true” artist? Where is the line between a prized Toulouse and an insignificant loser? And is beingin the latter position really such a disadvantage?
Source of text: Edice VIDA 4, VVP AVU, 2013
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová, Sláva Sobotovičová
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INFORMATION IN PARTNER DATABASES

Artlist #1: Record at Artlist