2024-07-01 09:57:57
“We used to attract motorbikes right here, bear in mind?” asks the artist Jiří Franta to his colleague David Böhm once they come to the previous ČKD corridor in Prague’s Karlín for an interview. They’ve been working as a pair for nearly twenty years and, along with a bike, have included cranes, suspended pencils, lengthy rods or their very own hand in plaster within the drawing experiment.
Now the area of the gallery itself, particularly the Home of Pictures on Prague’s Revoluční trída, has grow to be a instrument of creativity for them. Till September 29, they’ll current their work in it underneath the banner of the Gallery of the Capital Metropolis of Prague. “The ground plan of the gallery helped us take into consideration how one can method the exhibition,” explains David Böhm.
The constructing has two spatially virtually equivalent flooring. With this in thoughts, the artists describe the anticipated customer expertise “as if two folks had been telling the identical film” or “as for those who had the identical dream twice, solely issues occurred somewhat otherwise every time”. They known as the undertaking Fabulant; based on them, it’s a “transcript” of the dialogue they conduct collectively by means of the drawing. “Perhaps about what we see within the media and on social networks. Backstage of playfulness there’s plenty of work, uncertainty, critical conditions,” they are saying.
The podcast with Jiří Franta and David Böhm could be listened to right here:
They think about it superb to create in pairs, however few discover their appropriate creative counterpart and associate. Having somebody speak to you at work is mostly thought of irritating. For forty-six-year-old Jiří Franta and forty-two-year-old David Böhm, quite the opposite, it’s passable. “I’d abandon the ethos of a romantic genius who forges someplace behind a chimney after which surprises the world. There may be usually a higher journey in collaboration, the place the recipe isn’t written and is cooked collectively,” thinks Böhm.
He additionally teaches on the Academy of Advantageous Arts in Prague. Within the podcast, he talks, amongst different issues, concerning the current petition by Czech cultural figures who criticized the occasions at this faculty, within the Nationwide Gallery and across the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. “A snowball that began to roll up and everybody discovered one thing harmful,” feedback Jiří Franta. “It may need been a related dialogue, however now it is much like our two flooring on the exhibition; I believe it’s a must to go to them a number of instances to get the true image. Equally, you do not get an image of these establishments from one studying of the petition.”
Franta and Böhm are exhibiting their world within the Home of Pictures, and the way in which they create drawings will inform you numerous. The latter describes the consequence as follows: “What would the world seem like if twins had been born to the Virgin Mary?”
Welcome to the Na dotek podcast. Petr Vizina’s company are the artists David Böhm and Jiří Franta. To pay attention on the platforms: Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spreaker.