Collorado-Mansfeld Palace: Anežka Hošková, Jakub Hošek: SuperImpositions

Anežka Hošková, Jakub Hošek, Nik Timková

SuperImpositions

1.4.2014 - 31.5.2015

Colorrado-Mansfeld Palace

Karlova 2, Prague 1

Opening hours: Tue-Sun 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Curator: Monika Doležalová

Admission: 60 Kč full, 30 Kč reduced

The brother-sister artist duo Jakub Hošek and Anežka Hošková together with Nik Timková embody the English phrase which is often used by marketing departments of film studios: expect the unexpected. They live in constant motion, traveling – especially Jakub and Nik – between their various places of residence in international cities, often going directly from the studio to concerts which they organize together with Štěpán Bolf, brother of the painter Josef Bolf, as the A.M.180 Collective. They often do not show up in time (or at all) at an agreed meeting, but their work presented at exhibitions is perfect.

All of them are significant drivers of local visual culture and they stand out in the local community of artists. They widely share their concept of the aesthetics and the mix of subcultures, in which they are interested, with the other people on social networks, in their production and at music events.

When you meet them in the street, based on fashion creations you might think that you have met a cosplay from a manga comic cartoon. A.M.180’s musical events, primarily the Creepy Teepee Festival in Kutná Hora, have for a long term presented new projects and bands, from which world stars may arise in a couple of years. Let us remember the concert of Future Islands at Club 007 in Strahov five years ago where they played for 50 people. Following their last year’s album Singles and their appearance on the David Letterman talk show they have suddenly become world-renowned musicians who go on tour with an endless string of sold-out concerts, including their last year’s performance at the Lucerna Music Bar in Prague.

They are genuine trendsetters. They relentlessly bring about world culture in real time to the sleepy Czech lands which chronically lag behind. However, it is interesting to watch how few people are interested in it at the given moment and how they are able to accept it only with a delay through online or printed media. Instead, a certain stereotype has been created as regards the perception of this trio, as evidenced by television programmers and filmmakers who under pressure are trying to define them as hipsters without knowing that they behave this way naturally and not since the term hipster has arrived to the Czech lands about two years after it was already out in the world.

In recent years the artists have expanded their existing manifestos by the post-Internet aesthetics. They have begun to project mechanisms and simple imagination known from the computer environment and the web, as can be seen in Intervention 3 of Superimpositions at the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace where they have prepared a series of disparate objects presenting the current stage of artistic development of each of them. At the same time they have not lost anything from their playfulness and irony, which make them different from the ubiquitous contemplative, serious and sophisticated approach to art.

The term Superimpositions, originally the title of a soundtrack and album by the Milano musician Lorenzo Senni, refers to a technique in which a layer is imposed on the existing surface. It is used as a term for intervention of objects overlaying the piano nobile of the Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace and as an expression of their layering related more to the technique rather than to the content.