Madam - In Case Of Emergency

"... beautiful, twisted, confessional late-night conversations soaked in bar-fly brilliance... Dark, maudlin widescreen vignettes are what make up the album "In Case Of Emergency". An atmospheric filmic quality resides on this extraordinary debut. Think Portishead, Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Townes Van Zandt. Madam conjure a magical and dangerous world of lost highways, dying love, whiskey-soaked mistakes and cigarette-smoke philosophy." When Things Explode, February 26, 2008

I have posted the same video some time before and because I fell in love with her voice I was really looking forward to hearing her whole album.

Today I have found a link to this new album In Case Of Emergency (2008)! You can taste her songs here and than buy a record or visit her concert. I will do it definitely... ;-)

download here

Madam - Calling For Love




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Pissing In Hergetova Cihelna (Brickworks) by David Černý

Everybody who knows David Černý knows that it is a controversial artist with wise ideas. His artworks such as a pink Soviet tank that served as a war memorial in central Prague, an image of Saddam Hussein in a tank of formaldehyde, "Tower Babies"- a serie of crawling infants attached to Žižkov Television Tower, Statue of St. Wenceslas riding a dead horse etc.


When I was in Kafka museum in Prag I was amused by another Černý's artwork which is on a Hergetova Cihelna's backyard called Piss. It is a statue of two men who are pissing into a Czech Republic shaped pool. They are made of cuprum and their hips are moving right from left while their penises are moving down from top. (see a video here)

The most funny thing is that if you write an sms on a number written near the statue the men write your text by their penises in the water.

See David Černý oficial pages

Prague Galleries

I have spent few days in Prag recently and I have discovered some interesting art expressions there:

Alexandr Onishenko - New Impressionism


Onishenko is one of the most successful artists in the Czech Republic who born in Ukraine and began his career as one of the sellers alongside the Charles Bridge. He was discovered in the other countries too so he exhibited his paintings all over there. And after that he has opened his own gallery in Prag. The gallery is called Galerie Jakubská.

I was impressed by some of his pieces, but there is no one from my favorite pictures on the internet unfortunately. His paintings are peaceful and full of colour, he can catch the light and movings so that you can feel the wind blowing or hear the sea rustle.

There you can find some examples of his paintings in a book about him and on his pages.


D-ART Gallery

This gallery hosts especialy Russian painters. The first time when I walked round about this gallery I thought that it is some other Onishenko's gallery because the paintings outside were in the same style (impressionism) and topic (roofs of buildings). I was said that this Russian painter (whose name I don't remember) has cooperated with Onishenko. There were big autumn forest paintings with a life-giving sunlight and another moments from nature inside the gallery from the same autor. Such a pity I don't have 600 EUR left!

There was one another painter who took my attention - Sergey Yatnov.


He is 50, born in Russia and living in Prag for 17 years. His style is quite unusual and sometimes his pictures looks like from a Polock's successor. There are many artworks of this man on the internet so enjoy watching them here and here.


Galerie PERON


















This is a modern art gallery. It was a bit difficult to choose an artwork I like in this gallery. But I know that everything what is able to captivate you even in the negative way is art. Art is a way how to point to some problem and an oportunity to show your opinion. In PERON I have realized this strongly. I will remember a name Mžyk whose paintings were in a very characteristic style so that you can recognise them easily but I really don't like them.

Check the gallery stuff here.




Galerie 2002

If you are interested in a lithography and other printing methods I recommend you names as Oldřich Kulhánek, Tomáš Hřivnáč, Jaroslav Šerých...