We discussed:

- What it means to be a professional artist
- Being rediscovered after decades
- Everything influences everything
- Speaking the language of things
- what is art?
- the art system
- being a late bloomer
- the need for time and distance
- fleeing communism in 1981
- his connection to nature
- including randomness and chance in art making
- biointervention art
- interspecies art
- cult of personality
- the algorithm
- envying your younger self
- viewers being impressed by tediousness
- buying immortality

 

People + Places mentioned:
Catacomb saints - https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2020/01/07/divine-inspiration-how-romes-unknown-dead-became-catacomb-saints/

James Hampton - The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly - https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/throne-third-heaven-nations-millennium-general-assembly-9897

Pavlína Morganová, Czech Action Art: Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain - https://www.amazon.com/Czech-Action-Art-Happenings-Performance/dp/802462317X

National Film Archive, Czech Republic - https://nfa.cz

Gallery1718 - Veronika Holcová, Pavel Hrnčíř - https://www.gallery1718.ca

Roman Buxbaum

Petr Rezek

 

People who inspired him:
Jiří Kovanda
Karel Miler - https://www.memoryofnations.eu/en/miler-karel-1940
Joseph Beuys - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747
Master Theodoric - https://www.malmecc.eu/master-theodoric-court-painter-of-prague/
Dennis Oppenheim - https://www.dennisaoppenheim.org
Lucian Freud - https://imma.ie/artists/lucian-freud/
Eva Hesse - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/eva-hesse-1280

 

Contemporary artist whom he likes:
Terry Hoff - http://www.terryhoff.com
Ben Schumacher - https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/ben_schumacher

 

where to look to see his art:
http://lumir.ca
http://corridor213.ca
http://nevan.gallery
http://darrengallery.com

 
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