Publication details
Jiří Kovanda / O deset minut dřív
| Title in English | Jiří Kovanda / Ten Minutes Earlier |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | Jiří Kovanda’s actions frequently involved banal situations, ordinary activities and mundane tasks that we do automatically, yet acted out in a shifted context. Likewise, in his installations and interventions the artist shifts ordinary, routinely used objects to a completely new, unexpected level by removing them from their original situation and taking away their primary utility function. Kovanda’s installations are not rooted in an idea of a certain place suitable for or adjustable to a particular work; instead, he executes an idea and the preparation of a situation which is to make up the base of a new project, or of the employment of some of his older works, directly on the spot. |