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Stray Dog

Author
Václav Stratil
Year
1991
Year to
1994
Technique and size

drawings, photographs, dimensions variable

About work

It was animal portraits which followed the traced drawings of the 80s. It was them which introduced the motif of a being that mirrors our ideas of freedom, homelessness and impossibility to see into the mind of another person. The exhibition Stray Dog in Rudolfinum, Prague, consisted of the animal portraits shown together with their photographic blow-ups. The self-portraits in the exhibition marked the possibility of metaphorical identification of the author with animal qualities.

(source: intermedia.ffa.vutbr.cz/zatoulany-pes)

Photo

Photo author: (c) Václav Stratil
Center for Contemporary Arts Prague www.fcca.cz 2006–2024
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