Jiri Kovanda(1953、チェコ共和国、プラハ)










ジリ・コバンダ、イーストヨーロッパのフルクサスアーティストです.
友人から教えてもらったんだが、唯一発行されてる彼の本を借りてみたら、私の好みにどんぴしゃり.それほど外では著名ではないですが、チョコのこんセプチャルアーティストのいい例の代表みたいです.こんなアーティストなんてなかなか知れません.プラハに行ったときにその貴重な本を入手!
何がよいって、modestな表現、それでいてユーモアたっぷり。常々イーストヨーロッパのメンタリティーはアジアと共通する部分があると思っていましたが、こういう作家の作品にシンパシーを感じるのはうれしいことです.この人、スタジオという場所をずっと持ってなかったそうです.やっぱ外に行かなきゃ・・

掲載作品のタイトルより。写真の横に載っけられないので、別項で、重要だからさ.
Untitled (On an escalator … turning around, I look into the eyes of the person standing behind me …) (3 September 1977)
Untitled, 1977, (I‘ m crying. I gazed at the sun for so long that I have started to cry.)
Waiting For Someone To Call Me (1976).
Green square, Blue oval, Yellow tongue, (1993)

インタビュー
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Jiří Kovanda first appeared on the art scene along with the second generation of Czech “actionism” in the late 1970s. He has recently been discovered in the West through his minimalist actions and “action-interventions,” which might be referred to as protocols of a general record. They differ significantly from older Czech Fluxus activities, which had pedagogical and
utopian aims, and from those of his contemporaries, whose performances often
explored physical and existential frontiers. Kovanda’s minimalist actions and interventions of the 1970s, were often so subtle they were almost imperceptible. They could not attack immediately, but they did have an effect in the long run. There is a certain romanticism in his artistic gestures that may have been stimulating in the depressing 1970s, when it served as a contrast to so many traumatic and politically-laden performances. Simple actions like gazing fixedly into the eyes of people encountered on an escalator, for example, or intentionally-unintentionally touching chance passers-by on the street can be understood as attempts to make contact.

20. March 2009 by hagisan
Categories: 5star, 70's, Actionism, Fluxus, the Czech Republic | Leave a comment

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