Aleš Záboj - About the Gallery-drugstore Off-price Products

AUTHORSHIP

Equal co-authorship: Aleš Záboj

CLASSIFICATION

Classification: film/videoart

DATES

Date of creation: 1987

SUBJECT

Other persons appearing in the film: Petr Oslzlý, Rostislav Pospíšil, Drahomír Svatoň

COLLABORATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

Other collaborators: Aleš Záboj, Aleš Záboj

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Duration: 00:12:14
Sound: Sound

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

Audiovisual broadcast (TV, radio): Artyčok.tv
Date of broadcast: 19.6.2013
Link: http://artycok.tv/lang/cs-cz/19695/o-galerii-drogerii-zlevnene-zbozi-1987

NOTES AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Notes: Curated in The Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive at Artycok.tv in 2013.

Adopted text on the work: The shop with off-price drugstore products used to be in Bayerova street in Brno between 1986–1989 and it also served as an independent exhibition place.

Its conception was created by Petr Oslzlý and Rostislav Pospíšil who represented the fine art and theatre area and its technical support was provided by the drugstore manager Drahomír Svatoň. The exhibitions were interconnected with other unofficial or partly official activities of the Brno circle. The British Foundation of Jan Hus donated necessary technical equipment for so called „underground university“ and it also influenced the form of exhibition openings in the Gallery Off-price Products – after each opening it was possible to project in a nearby restaurant Prague a profile of the exhibiting artist filmed in his studio. The videos were usually made by Aleš Záboj, some of them also by Milan Maryška, Michal Hýbek, Pavel Jandourek or Petr Macků. The openings in the gallery itself were also unusual – the exhibiting artist, dressed in a dust coat, helped for an hour in the drugstore with the sale before the shop’s closing hour. The film shows the gallery interior and the organisers interpreting their own activities as an original performance.
Source of text: Okno do videoarchivu VVP AVU
Author of text: Terezie Nekvindová
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