take it personally: AM 180 Prague 2004. Frešo, Skála, Śimera, Brody

Táto výstava ma ambície otvoriť diskusiu o nevraživosti na českej umeleckej scéne. Motív hľadá kdesi v základe ľudského konania, v pudoch. Sex ako fenomén, ktorý formuje osobné vzťahy ľudí zainteresovaných na pieskovisku českého umenia. Koncepcia výstavy vychádza zo zadefinovania si vzťahov medzi autormi. Nie umelecká skupina, ale kamaráti. Na výstave vznikla spolupráca týchto autorov: Evžen Šimera, Ondřej Brody, Jiří Skála a Viktor Frešo

A.M.180, 23.–29.4. 2004
The Czechoslovak artistic quad Jiří Skála, Ondřej Brody, Evžen Šimera and Viktor Frešo at A. M. 180 have had enough. Their project, Ber si to osobně (take it personally), is founded on a single gesture: each wrote on a wall the names of people they don’t like in their profession. What they wrote angered four of their acquaintances. But it also revealed how relationships are defined in Prague’s artistic scene. They offered the possibility of understanding how irrationality is entangled with the network of artistic collaboration, rivalry and refusal. Artistic work in its own world has its mundane dimensions.
Most likely, each identified someone who would also like to write sn that wall. The action, Ber si to osobně, most certainly did not improve any relationships within the Czech scene. Ondřej Brody dislikes the artist Tomáš Svoboda, Jiří Skála curdles at Display Gallery curator Ondřej Chrobák, Evžen Šimera dislikes Podebal group member Peter Motyčka, and Slovak artist Viktor Frešo has issues with Juraj Dudáš. Above all, Ber si to osobně consisted of conceptual self-portraits for a social effect on a very local level. It with antipathy that our limits are always revealed. We haven’t seen such sincere recognition for a long time.