Libor Novotný

born: 23. 10. 1979 in Jablonec nad Nisou
graduate: Institut pro umělecká studia Ostrava
address: Jirkov 100, 468 22 Železný Brod
e-mail: liborator@email.cz

Personalities of people are mosaics of many little pieces, experiences, multilayer silts and sediments. Everything is imprinted in them what we go through, what affects us, things that come to our minds or that we see God knows where. The mosaics grow in volume and variety by contact with the environment and by getting to know it – a little stone here and there, something precious at times, a genuine jewel; and sometimes just trash. But the ingredients don't matter if the results tates good. For me, events like dílna are about encounters, meetings, people... and about new opportunities opening up. And you should live through this great experience directly, get it under your own skin, without the surrounding hissing that is common on second-hand copies. Being there (here?) is an experience because something like Mikulov is bound to leave some imprints in you, and another stone falls into the mosiac (although words like stone and hardening should be used carefully in connection with Mikulov). I don’t know if truth does float in wine somewhere near the bottom but it is easy to come to like it. And then you add the chateau, the Holly Hill, the cafe, austellungen, grapes, cemeteries, the Goat Peak, mikveh, microphones, hospitality, calmness, caligraphy, fossils, White Ladies, wine makers, patrons, the Kapičáks, the Solaříks, the Dietrichsteins, the crocodiles, wackos of all sorts, local and from elsewhere, brushes, penises, wizards... That is the mosaic of Mikulov for me and I will be very happy one day to become a part of it once more. You treated my like I was one of you.

Thanks and tschuss
Libor Novotný

Censored
cut paper, 140 x 300 cm, 2004

Projectile
cut paper, 200 x 140 cm, 2004

Centre
cut paper, 200 x 280 cm, 2004

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

Nikos Armutidis (1994 , 1999 , 2003) , Jan Bačkovský , Alena Beldová , Karl – Heinz Bethmann , Erika Bornová , Machiel Botman , Veronika Bromová , Milan Cais Tomáš Císařovský (2000 , 2001 , 2003) , Rostislav Čuřík Jiří David (2007 , 2008) , Stanislav Diviš , Milena Dopitová , Jana Doubková Eva Eisler (2005 , 2006) , Michal Gabriel , Zdeněk Halla , Zbyněk Havlín , Milan Houser , Dalibor Chatrný , Jeff Chiplis Petr Jareš (1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2003) , Irena Jůzová , Vladimíra Klumparová , Richard Kočí , Ondřej Kohout , Eva Koťátková , Nina Kotel , Jiří Kovanda , Vojtěch Kovářík , František Kowolowski , Radovan Král , Antonín Kratochvíl , Antonín Kratochvíl , Milan Kunc , Tomáš Lahoda Zdeněk Lhotský (1994 , 1995) Libor Lípa (1994 , 2000 , 2003) Ivana Lomová (2001 , 2002 , 2003) , Petr Lysáček , Christian Macketanz , Martin Mainer , Tomáš Medek , Vladimír Merta Stefan Milkov (1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Aleš Najbrt , Klára Nejezchlebová , Jaromíra Němcová Petr Nikl (2001 , 2003) , Libor Novotný Vít Novotný (1997 , 2003) , Pavel Opočenský , Petra Pavlicová , Jiří Pikous , Tereza Brichtová Pirščová , Petr Písařík , Viktor Pivovarov , Otto Placht Martina Riedlbauchová (1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2003) , Veronika Richterová , Ulric Roldanus Jaroslav Róna (1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Tomáš Ruller , Kamila Rýparová , Vladimir Salnikov , František Skála , Roman Sliwka , Daniela Sneppová Jiří Sobotka (1999 , 2005) , Tono Stano , Jan Stolín , Václav Stratil , Antonín Střížek Čestmír Suška (1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Michal Šmeral , Vladimír Špaček , Jindřich Štreit , Laco Teren , Michaela Klimanová Trizuljaková , Účastníci 10. ročníku MVS , Woody Vasulka , Tereza Velíková , Kateřina Vincourová , Eva Vones , Michaela Vrbková Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1999 , 2004) , Petr Zubek

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.