The Historical Front

2013

Installation / Video

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The Historical Front, 2013

Photogravure, The Historical Front, 2013

Exhibition view, Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2014, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer

Videostill, The Historical Front, 2013

Exhibition view, Figures of Remembrance, Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2014, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer

Exhibition view, Reading the Cities, House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic, 2013

Exhibition view, Max-Pechstein-Förderpreis, Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Germany, 2013

Videostill, The Historical Front, 2013

Exhibition view, Kunstverein Bielefeld, 2014, Photo: Philipp Ottendörfer

The Historical Front, 2013

Catalogue, The Historical Front, 2013

The Historical Front
2013
Projection, HD-Video, 3:56 min./Loop
Monitor, SD-Video, 0:12 min. /Loop
Monitor, SD-Video, 7:47 min. /Loop
4 Photogravures, 66 x 89 cm, framed
Catalogue

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The installation The Historical Front deals with the monument created by Vincenc Makovský, "The Red Army's Victory over Fascism", which was inaugurated on April 26, 1955 on Moravian Square, in the centre of Brno, Czech Republic. The work deals with the temporary absence of the sculpture for the purpose of restoration, its relocation and the current transformation of its original location. The examination of the different states of transformation allows to question the current handling of socialist monuments and memorials and at the same time to reveal the constructional logic of historical narratives.

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