Guma guar

Guma guar is a politically-active Prague artists collective. They are known for their deconstruction of mass media functions or works on the topics of the "War on Terror". [cite news |title=Don't miss: Morcheeba, Shellac and Spooky |url=http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/326/events_in_prague/22079/ |work=Prague Daily Monitor |date=2008-04-30 |accessdate=2008-05-28 ] They often connect video art and electronic music, and also performing as VJs.

From 2003, Groupe Guma guar exhibited around Europe - in Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest and Prague Biennale 2 [cite book |title=Prague Biennale 2: Expanded Painting/acción Directa (exhibition catalogue) |last=Sansone |first=Valentina |coauthors=Politi, Giancarlo |year=2005 |publisher=Politi |isbn=8878161349 |pages=p. 404 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_81PAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Guma+guar%22&dq=%22Guma+guar%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-05-28] and Gallery Futura in Prague. [cite news |title=Resident fighters |url=http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2006/12/20/resident-fighters.php |work=The Prague Post |date=2006-12-20 |accessdate=2008-05-28 ]

In February 2008 the group temporarily renamed themselves "the Milan Knížák Group" and staged a show in a shop window near Prague's National Gallery purporting to be by controversial artist and National Gallery director Milan Knížák. [cite news |title=A record-setting show |url=http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/02/27/a-record-setting-show.php |work=The Prague Post |date=2008-02-27 |accessdate=2008-05-28 ]

References

External links

* [http://gumaguar.bloguje.cz Official site]