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The exhibition Several free interpretations of important and less important works of literature through illustrative examples by Oliver Musovik consists of five objects and one floor installation. What connects them all is the artist's interest in the process of distillation of the content from the form, which is presented by setting a part the literary, and "less" literary samples as interpretation calculated in advance. The texts that were the origin for the three-dimensional works join the mosaic of the artist's every day life: the magazines and the books he reads, as well as the statements of the people he meets, become content and concept of his visual poetic. Thus, separated subject takes the shape of a framed print hanging on the wall, while the actual work represents an object-paraphrase of the idea. In the witty word games of the titles as well as in the ironization [for example the term "literature"], one can foresee reference to the tradition of the Dadaism and neo-dadaism. Illustration, on the other hand, as one form of the applied graphic art, here is re-interpreted as simulated "ready-made" - one of the most used mediums in the post-conceptual art.