Dílna Mikulov - Art symposium

Libor Lípa


born: 12. 9. 1963
graduate: SUPŠ Brno
address: Jindřicha Plachty 19, 150 00  Praha 5
e-mail: lipaart@seznam.cz
http://www.lipaart.cz

Author also in 1994 and 2003.

A REFLECTION ON THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY OF TIME, EGOISM AND THE SELF
(Almost an open letter)

If we speculate that time exists as long as matter exists and man can percieve it, does percieve it and, also, last but not least, measures it, we find ourselves on the path of reasoning. Matter is susceptible to decay in the course of passing time. The man has been functioning on this basis for millions of years in the very same way and the possibilities of learning make his life longer, or vice versa.
Passing time makes the man grow old – it decomposes him. If the man then devotes certain time to his work, say a work of art, he in fact gives it himself. The more time, the bigger piece of himself. The bigger piece of himself he gives to the work, the more can he understand the time that stopped if he really starts with the nature and draws on it. A painter or a sculptor who has just finished his work, continually continues in the process of ageing or decay due to the passing of time. But a work of art – and by that I mean the contents and the form of a painting, for example – stops in time. And there is art that is created in real time, and yet can be not only contemporary but also old, as well as timeless. It in fact runs ahead of time. And the viewer, before he can find some kind of understanding of it or relation to it in real time, grows old. Can we therefore rewind, follow or accelerate time? As far as reason is concerned, we surely can. I have a feeling that an artists working surrounded by nature and if he really wants to stem out of it, he doesn’t accelerate the time of the work itself so much if he gives it much more of himself and if creates a synthesis of this period, that is time, which he devoted to it. The work itself then has a more real time and shape; in other words, it finds itself in some sort of human pre-ignition. On the contrary, he who is not tied to any form to nature seems to create a work less committed and so accelerated that the creator himself must often devote a lot of time, and therefore himself as well, to understand his own work. In many cases, real time is only taken away from others rather then the viewer given an opportunity to develop intellectually in possible timelessness. That’s why the so-called loss of time is sometimes mentioned here. A creation of egoism – it usually takes rather than gives even though the individual often devotes a lost of his or her real time.
The MAS has been here for seven years. For me, it has been eight years of organizational, spiritual and partly artistic work. I hope things have been given their order, at least fundamental one. Much needs to be changed and refined. I will be around and if my advice is needed, I won’t turn my back.
Kant used to say that time and space have the same nature and appearance. But time passes, I’m growing older and I would now like to give more to my work which I love. Because I sometimes have a feeling that I’m being called an egoist

Thanks for everything.
Your (former) Guarantee

Note: After about two hours passed after the writing of this text, my wife came back from work at school with the following story. She asked the children to create a sentence with the ETERNITY in it. M.K, fifth grade of the special school, wrote: I HAVE THE PEACE OF ETERNAL TIME. Unbelievable.

P. S. When you hold this MAS "dílna" 2000 catalogue in your hands, it will be 2001 – the first year of the new millennium. Please accept this catalogue also as a wish of good life from all in Mikulov.

Libor Lípa, curator of MAS "dílna" '00
In Mikulov, 19th October 2000


Pink Nails
Pink Nails
acryl on canvas, 160 x 145 cm, 2000

Red Lips
Red Lips
acryl on canvas, 160 x 145 cm, 2000

List of artists participating in MAS "dílna" in 1994–2010

Adam Štech , Adéla Strnadová , Aleš Brázdil , Alexander Tinei , Barbora Kurtinová , David Krňanský , Denisa Krausová , Emőke Vargová , Eugeniusz Józefowski , Eva Turnová , Filip Dvořák , Hana Puchová , Jakub Lipavský , Jakub Tomáš , Jaroslav Beneš , Jiří Černický , Jiří Kačer , Julie Béna , Julius Reichel , Klára Čermáková , Klára Štefanovičová , Kurt Gebauer , Libor Lípa Marie Tomanová (2020 , 2021) , Michaela Černická , Mirek Zahálka , Natálie Colledani , Ondřej Oliva , Roel Van Der Linden , Roman Výborný , Sofie Švejdová , Svatopluk Klimeš , Tomáš Tichý , Vitaly Pushitsky , Vojtěch Horálek , Zdena Kolečková , Peter Angermann , Mathias Antlfinger / Ute Hörner Nikos Armutidis (1994 , 1999 , 2003) , Mikoláš Axmann , Jan Bačkovský , Anna Balážová , Alena Beldová , Karl – Heinz Bethmann , Václav Bláha , David Böhm , Erika Bornová , Machiel Botman , Tereza Brichtová , Veronika Bromová , Milan Cais Tomáš Císařovský (2000 , 2001 , 2003) , Martin Čada , Ondřej Čech , Rostislav Čuřík Jiří David (2007 , 2008 , 2013) Stanislav Diviš (1998 , 2014) , Tea Dohnalová Milena Dopitová (2010 , 2013 , 2009) , Martin Dostál , Jana Doubková Eva Eisler (2005 , 2006 , 2013) , Luděk Filipský , Jiří Franta , Vladimír Franz , Monika Fryčová , Michal Gabriel , Martin Gerboc , Zdeněk Halla , David Hanvald , Zbyněk Havlín , Duncan Higgins , František Hodonský , Vladimír Houdek , Milan Houser , Dalibor Chatrný , Jeff Chiplis , Matyáš Chochola Petr Jareš (1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2003) , Eva Jirička , Irena Jůzová , Michal Kalhous , Kristýna Kašparová , Vladimíra Klumparová , Richard Kočí , Ondřej Kohout , Igor Korpaczewski , Inge Kosková , Eva Koťátková , Nina Kotel , Alena Kotzmannová , Jiří Kovanda , Vojtěch Kovářík , František Kowolowski , Radovan Král , Vendula Pucharová Kramářová , Antonín Kratochvíl Antonín Kratochvíl (2006 , 2013) Milan Kunc (2000 , 2012) , Tomáš Lahoda , Otis Laubert Zdeněk Lhotský (1994 , 1995) Libor Lípa (1994 , 2000 , 2003 , 2013 , 2011) Ivana Lomová (2001 , 2002 , 2003) , Barbora Lungová , Petr Lysáček , Christian Macketanz , Martin Mainer , Werner Mally , Břetislav Malý , Tomáš Medek , Johana Merta , Vladimír Merta , Svätopluk Mikyta Stefan Milkov (1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , David Možný , Aleš Najbrt , Klára Nejezchlebová , Jaromíra Němcová , Jakub Nepraš Petr Nikl (2001 , 2003) , Libor Novotný Vít Novotný (1997 , 2003) Pavel Opočenský (1999 , 2018) , Petra Pavlicová , Jiří Pikous , Tereza Brichtová Pirščová , Petr Písařík , Jan Pištěk , Viktor Pivovarov , Tomáš Plachký , Otto Placht , Aldin Popaja , Tomáš Prokop , Viktorie Prokopová Martina Riedlbauchová (1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2003) , Veronika Richterová , Ulric Roldanus Jaroslav Róna (1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Tomáš Ruller , Kamila Rýparová , Vladimir Salnikov , František Skála , Vladimír Skrepl , Roman Sliwka , Daniela Sneppová Jiří Sobotka (1999 , 2005 , 2013) , Společné dílo kurátorů 2004 – 2013 Tono Stano (1998 , 2018) , Jan Stolín Václav Stratil (2004 , 2011) , Antonín Střížek , Corine Stübi Čestmír Suška (1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Evžen Šimera , Jaromír Šimkůj , Michal Šmeral , Vladimír Špaček , Jakub Špaňhel , Karel Štědrý , Jindřich Štreit , Laco Teren Oldřich Tichý (2014 , 2015) , Margita Titlová Ylovsky , Michaela Klimanová Trizuljaková , Účastníci 10. ročníku MVS , Katarína Hládeková , Woody Vasulka , Tereza Velíková , Aleš Veselý Petr Veselý (2014 , 2016) Kateřina Vincourová (2005 , 2017) , Eva Vones , Jiří Votruba Michaela Vrbková (2010 , 2012) Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1999 , 2004) , František Zelinka Petr Zubek (2007 , 2013 , 2009) , Peter Župník


Realized as Part of the Project
Mikulov – a Town of Art.
This Project is Co-funded by the European Union and the South-Moravian Region.