Taurus Collection by Tara Semenov

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Taurus collection dvorak sec contemporary gallery-book_v5.indd 2-3

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Taurus collection part 1

curated by olga dvorak dvorak sec contemporary

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Taurus

â&#x20AC;&#x17E; What you really collect is always yourself. Jean Baudrillard, philosopherâ&#x20AC;&#x153;

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„Defeat posseses certain kind of Dignity that Victory would never be able to recognize“ „Porážka má v sobě jistý druh důstojnosti, kterou vítězství nikdy nepozná.“ Jorge Luis Borgis, Buenos Aires, Argentina“

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in sook kim Room 506, 2007 c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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in sook kim Room 308, 2007 c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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in sook kim Room 311, 2007

c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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in sook kim Room 104, 2007

c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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in sook kim Room 110, 2007

c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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in sook kim Room , 2007

c-print, wooden carcass (100 x 140 cm)

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richard štipl 5 Busts, 2008

pigmented wax and resin 54x15x15cm

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richard štipl Figure 1, 2008

pigmented wax and resin 48x15x18cm

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Figure 2, 2008

pigmented wax and resin 48x15x18cm

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filip černý merillin, II, III, IV 2000 acryl on canvas 100 x 100 cm

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liu bolin Artist with his sculpture Steel fist, 2008 iron 152x41cm

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martin sedlรกk Zidle, 2000 neon tube

(70 x 45 x 35 cm)

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milan salรกk Street Of Shadows Potrait, 1995 oil on canvas 100x200cm

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milan salรกk Lozenge 5C (day), 2004 acryl on canvas (200 x 135 cm)

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hisae ikenaga Aislado (Isolated), 2007 phone book

37 x 30 x 8 cm

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jeff koons Blue Balloon Dog, 2002 porcelain

26x26x11cm

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kriĹĄtof kintÄ&#x203A;ra Talkmen, 2009

sound, movement, latex, clothing, analogdigital sychronizer 108x40x15cm

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marek kvÄ&#x203A;tan Carpet, 2009 carpet, music and light instalation 30x230x30cm

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Julian Opie Antonia with evening dress (LCD), 2007

computer film 46â&#x20AC;?, LCD-screen, PC 125 x 75 cm

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Julian Opie Antonia with evening dress (LCD), 2007

computer film 46â&#x20AC;?, LCD-screen, PC 125 x 75 cm

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aldin popaje Party In Jajce, oil on canvas 200 x 300 cm

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daniel rozin Mirrors Mirror, 2008

769 mirrors, motor, electronic, video camera 224x168x15cm

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daniel rozin Mirrors Mirror, 2008

769 mirrors, motor, electronic, video camera 224x168x15cm

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martin sedlรกk Nymbus, 2007

wood, iluminated tape 85x160cm

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trong nguyen Oscar Wild: The Picture of Darian Gray, 2008 rice, ink, polyestr foil

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david pešat Women with a scythe, 2007 enamel on convas 190x190cm

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viktor frešo This Is What I Call A Sculpture, 2007 installation mixed media 20 x 5 x 5 cm

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kateřina karlová Můj Houpací KůňBukephalos laminated wood, live horse

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two madonnas will be here

štěpánka šimlová If (2pc) , 2001 c-print on ...... 120x90cm

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jelena vasiljev Essendo cosi i lupi, 2008 aliminium

flexible layout

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dana bell Blue Balloon Dog,

2002 porcelain

(10 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches)

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in sook kim (1969)

/ KOREA/

Born in Pusan, Korea in 1969, In Sook Kim has been studying since 2001 at the Düsseldorfer Akademie under Thomas Ruff and since 2005 she has been a master class pupil. Her work evolves in three ways: from found computer-enhanced data, from extravagantly staged shoots like those arranged for the photograph Saturday Night, and from what has been called her “demonic” study of the female body. In Sook Kim imparts to her viewers a world in which people appear as the roles they play and not necessarily as the people they really are.

richard štipl (1968)

daniel rozin (1961)

/USA/

Rozin creates interactive installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. Mirrors Mirror is a mechanical sculpture that organizes the 768 square reflective pixels along a picture plane. This piece is the first by Rozin that deflects the person standing before it. Investigating order versus chaos and the inner workings of human visual perception, Mirror Mirror also explores the borderlines between digital and analog worlds, or virtual and physical experience.

david pešat () / /

/ CANADA/

Richard Stipl’s sculptures reflect a contemporary reinterpretation of a classical art form; rather than employ the traditional use of sculptural busts to glorify a subject, Stipl uses his art as a vehicle that forces us reconsider the role of boundaries and consequent categories of choice that comprise contemporary attitudes and approaches to art-making and art-consumption. The figures, made from clay wax and resin, are dark yet humorous representations of the infinite cycle of recreation and rebirth undergone in a lifetime.

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trong nguyen (1971 liu bolin () / /

Working in a number of mediums, Liu Bolin’s work reflects an insightful examination of contemporary Chinese society and the experiences of the people within it.His giant Steel Fist—authoritarian in both in size and form—puts forward the the internalized feeling of totalitarianism experience still present in his native China. He brings to the surface the idea of the invisible hand that is so ever present in the minds of the people, and makes it into a tangible object, materializing the very idea of the effect of the government Chinese society.

)/VIETNAM/

Trong G Nguyen’s works contend with power relationships between viewer and art object. With hi rice bags, presents his own unique interpretation of a classic library. Small plastic bags—resembling the card found in library books reminding the reader of the borrowed book’s due date—are filled with grains of rice. If the viewer looks closely, he will find entire text, first, or last chapters of various books hand written on these grains of rice—one word per grain.

viktor frešo () / / filip černý () / /

Et irilisc iduipis nit utatum quatem quam ipsuscipit alit in hent aliqui ea feuguer aestrud et, qui euissequat, qui tatuero consenit, velit niam veliqui blamcore vulput nons ercidunt pratue ex elenis deliquis adignit lortie dolor inci tat. Ut alit lut ing et, sum etum acip et wisi estio ea facillut lorerit utat vel utetum zzrilisim velit autpat accum vel ute minim iuscilit, coreetum zzrit aliquiscilit lor iniam, velisis do et il iure dolobor eriustrud.

martin sedlák (1978) „The selection of the artist´s works put questions of humanity at the core of their work. It is not so much the sphere of the individual that interests them as interpersonal space, which they deal with in their own characteristic way – on the dividing line between light humour and darker sexual tension and in the slender gap between apparent innocence and latent evil. Together, their art works continue the age-old story of art symbolically revealing man to man. However, this selection of the art in Taurus collection – part 1 is not so much about culture as about the artists getting to grips with the critical relationship we have with the material objects in our ordinary lives. “

/SK/

Martin Sedlák is one of the most distinct young artists of Slovakia`s art scene. His works encompass a vast spectrum of different types of media, ranging from sculpture to painting and from photography to light installations. His light objects and installations are often characterized by the artist’s interest in a certain “magic of sight”. In order to create light sculptures, the artist uses neon tubes ( Chair, 2000), luminescent foil (Nimbus, 2007) and luminous cables. The combination of rationality and simplified forms is typical of Sedlák`s works as he associates himself with current modernist traditions based on minimalism.

milan salák () / /

julian opie () / /

kateřina karlová ()

/CZ/

Katerina Karlová finished her studies at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts with a thesis that was based on her very personal relationship to horses. Her art, mostly based on her positive relationship to animals and nature, is slightly shocking and a bit perverse. “My rocking horse - Bukephalos” is based on an essential desire for the artist to penetrate the soul of a horse and in doing so, achieve a perfect harmony between the horse and the artist. In her rocking horse, she retains the actual size of her horse and thus captures its strength, elegance and beauty, while creating a nostalgic image reminiscent of childhood and pure love.

štěpánka šimlová () / / hisae ikenaga () / /

krištof kintěra () / /

jelena vasiljev (1976)

/ SERBIA/

Jelena Vasiljev’s works explore the theme of power as aggressive violence, as a natural and instinctive impulse and as a cruel and bloody instrument that is adopted in so-called civilized human societies. The wolf is a reoccurring theme in her work, so much so that it has become her own symbol of reflection and a metaphor for the human condition, especially of those within her native Serbia. In her installation essendo così i lupi, several wolves made from plaster, gauze, jute and oakum, stand on the walls surrounding the viewer and create a space dominated by the predatory nature of ‘the pack.’

jeff koons () / /

aldin popaje () / /

marek květan () / /

dana bell (1974)

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/ USA/

Dana Bell’s paintings illuminate great moments of 20th century cinema, selected with an eye towards classical sensibility, framed with geometric symmetry. In Bell’s paintings the color is amped up to full volume, and the figures become part of a decorative pattern, inside which figures seem to move through space as the colors shift and shapes bounce off of each other. She paints images that are as important in the negative space as the positive.

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DSC

welcome to dvorak sec contemorary

„Why contemporary? „New art changes how we look at old art. You are not just a personality spewing out things from your gut. Art changes the view of the past.“

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In 2008 dvorak sec contemporary was established by Olga Dvorak and Petr Sec as an arts advisory firm and art gallery that is specialized in contemporary and modern art and a gallery exhibition space. Utilizing the expert knowledge and international network built from over 7 years of experience in the art world, DSC provides expert advice and personalized consultation to a wide range

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of clients (including private collectors, corporations and art institutions) who are interested in building and developing noteworthy art collections.

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â&#x20AC;&#x17E;People collect contemporary art because it is a reflection of their experiences. It is much more relevant to their daily lives than, say, Cubist period Picasso.â&#x20AC;&#x153;

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from the curator

from the curator PASSION FOR ART

PASSION FOR ART „For all kinds of art collectors the most important things to ask yourself are: why do you want to colelct art and what do you hope to achieve by doing so? Understand a little bit abotu what you are doing before \ou do it. At the same time, you can´t over-analyse, you are never going to konw everything, so sometimes you just have to jump in and make a decision and go with it. Go down a road and see where it takes you. Art is an intellectual pursuit. I tis not a handbag, i tis not a car, i tis something else. So it is necessary to think, to ask questions and to understand. Everything in the taurus collection is about emotions, It is about artists putiny themselves and exposing thein pain. That´s why i find the selected art as emotional, direct and provokas prople to be open too.“

„For all kinds of art collectors the most important things to ask yourself are: why do you want to colelct art and what do you hope to achieve by doing so? Understand a little bit abotu what you are doing before \ou do it. At the same time, you can´t over-analyse, you are never going to konw everything, so sometimes you just have to jump in and make a decision and go with it. Go down a road and see where it takes you. Art is an intellectual pursuit. I tis not a handbag, i tis not a car, i tis something else. So it is necessary to think, to ask questions and to understand. Everything in the taurus collection is about emotions, It is about artists putiny themselves and exposing thein pain. That´s why i find the selected art as emotional, direct and provokas prople to be open too.“ Olga Dvorak is a curator of the Taurus collection, and an art advisor, dvorak sec contemporary

Olga Dvorak is a curator of the Taurus collection, and an art advisor, dvorak sec contemporary

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Catalog Coordinator Jessica Martinaitis

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Graphic Design Nastassia Maritz Oksana Shmygol

Photo Credits Tomaš Lebr _____ Šimanek

Text Credit Petr Vanous

Dvorak Sec Contemporary

Dlouhá 5

110 00 Prague Czech Republic

info@dvoraksec.com

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„Contemporary art usually confronts you with what you don´t know, what you didn´t know, or what you know in a way that you didn´t expect. The collector of the Taurus Collection is four years old boy. His parents founded this collection for him when he was born in 2005 at dvorak sec contemporary. And if the collector is four year old, there is plenty to have to discover…“

„Loving art is something so special, and there is no better person to share it with than the most special people in our lives: our children. A contemporary art collection is a message to future generations about the world you are living it. Through it, you can share your ideas, your opinions and your dreams. It is absolutely one of the most original ways to leave a message about your self for generations to come. „

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