If you have to choose between better, even though it brings you no profit or worse, which will benefit you, decide correctly. Arnošt Lustig
Texts: Martin Dostál and Jiří David Translation: Tera Semenov Editor: Olga dvorak Conception of catalogue: Martin Dostál Graphic Design: Karel Kerlický & Martin Dostál Photos: Dušan Šimánek Published by: KANT 2011 and dvorak sec contemporary ISBN: 978-80-7437-049-6
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Hardened crusts of colors, artificial sedimented rocks, sudden layers of chaos, ambiguous emergence of trying to force its way through fragments, but also clean, shining blocks from the hand of an axe. Tattooed skin, flea markets, burnt frames, glass beads, melancholy attempted by panic, anxiety, yet only the undying night waiting for the light and reasons. Demon of memories that I cannot express, as they persist the sight, before words, the language, before its own identity. Fear. Autonomy of industrial colours in cans, their chemical reactions, consistency, slow, its very slow calcification, that often forces me to its tearing. I admire their spatial compactness, exapansivity. Live... You are what you are... I manipulate by identifying objectivity, full of own obscurity, scorn and doubt, aware of the necessity of transcendence. Jiří David 2011