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Breakdown of a Heat Line

Author
David Helán
Year
2008
Keywords
Technique and size

documentation of a performance

About work

Helán’s artistic outcomes, performances or projects are penetrated by his physical treatment of reality, as well as by his free manipulation of the surroundings and their discreetness. A lot of it takes place on the basis of the physical principle action and reaction, which creates a certain level of tension. If there is humour present in his work then it generally has the character of an immediate participant in the potential content of the work. Contagious laughter is not supposed to fill the role of planned entertainment but it is the part and parcel of a specific intent that the artist is captivated by and he is amused by its realization [...]. 

Author of the annotation
Radim Langer

Published
2011

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