CO14 2003 – 2005
launch of C014 anthology on Tuesday, March 15 at 8pm, music by Reverend Dick
CO14 (Jiří Franta, Marek Meduna, Petr Motejzík, Luděk Rathouský)
The AVU Research Centre in Prague is publishing CO14 2003–2005 as part of the research project Czech Art in the Period of Post-Socialism Transformation (1980–2005).
This publication features lectures and public presentations of select
artists, art groups and initiatives, curators and art critics. The three-year
cycle of these activities took place at the Philosophy Faculty of Charles
University in Prague, deliberately not in an established art institution.
Although the organizers of the lectures preface the publication as
a collection of documents that has not been completely organized, it has
a clear structure and represents and extensive database of thoughts and
information that will play a significant role in interpreting art of the 1990s
and of the first decade of the 21st century. The book includes mainly Czech
artists who changed the course of art following the postmodern period of the
1980s and who thereby opened the space for the present-day young generation.
The publication contains writings by the artists, select criticism and texts by
curators, pictorial documentation and survey responses. The textual part is
already today a valuable archive that includes theses defences, in which the
initial formulations of the artist’s own approach often appears. The survey,
whose questions were thoroughly modified for each artist, is then a separate
part of the publication. This book is undoubtedly among the most extensive fine
arts projects of its kind in the Czech Republic. It presents a separate
collection of views and attitudes of a representative sample of artists of
the 1990s.
An archive of collective and solo exhibitions, of artwork reproductions and the setting of art studios was created in the pictorial part from artist documents. This archive contains a large number of unknown and never-before published pictures.
The AVU Research Centre therefore sees the publication of CO14 2003–2005 as an important addition to its research project.
AVU Research Centre, Prague 2010
antology content:
foreword – CO14 (Jiří Franta, Marek Meduna, Petr Motejzík, Luděk
Rathouský)
comment – Lenka Vítková
Vladimír Skrepl, Dušan Záhoranský, Jan Kadlec, Milan Salák, Kateřina Šedá, Štěpánka Šimlová, Podebal, Jiří Příhoda, Jan Kotík, M.U.T., Jiří Černický, Display, Zbyněk Baladrán, Ondřej Chrobák, David Kulhánek, Tomáš Svoboda, Kamera skura, Jana a Jiří Ševčíkovi, Ján Mančuška, Michal Pěchouček, František Kowolowski, Petr Lysáček, Guma Guar, Martin Zet, Vít Soukup, Ivan Vosecký, Jan Nálevka, Tomáš Hlavina, Kateřina Vincourová, Jan Šerých, Jan Turner, Milena Dopitová, Krištof Kintera, Alena Kotzmannová, Tomáš Vaněk, Pavel Humhal, Josef Bolf, Petr Písařík, Rafani
price 300 CZK
