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Action + Multimedia Artist, Lumír Hladík (Canada + Czech Republic)


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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

 

Hosted by Matthew Dols

http://www.matthewdols.com

 

Supported in part by:

EEA Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein + Norway

https://eeagrants.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

and we appreciate the assistance of our partners in this project:

Hunt Kastner – https://huntkastner.com

Kunstsentrene i Norge – https://www.kunstsentrene.no

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Transcript available: https://wisefoolpod.com/transcript-for-episode-162-action-multimedia-artist-lumir-hladik-canada-czech-republic/

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