by Jon Lackman | 26 September 2009 | Contemporary
From The Prague Post:
Galerie Václav Špála’s current exhibition features seven contemporary Czech artists who were invited to collaborate with other artists – their predecessors as well as their contemporaries – from Czech and Western art history. As a result, art history is not only referred to in this show but is also stolen, changed or recreated. This is only fitting, since the history of art offers endless opportunities for appropriation and reinterpretation …
Ond?ej Brody and Marek Meduna are showing Pissoire (2009), a video of the two artists urinating on the grave of the revered Czech art historian and theoretician Jind?ich Chalupecký (1910-90). These two were likely inspired by the line from the [show's] manifesto, ‘The artist can use the art to create blasphemies.’ “
