400 ASA: Simply Documentary…

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GHMP Dům fotografie
Revoluční 1006/5
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
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Tue-Sun 10 am – 6 pm
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Curator: Josef Moucha

This new association of Czech photographers opted for the name 400 ASA in reference to the kind of film that is highly sensitive to light exposure. The exhibition 400 ASA: Documentary Photography examines the lives of various social groups, taking a closer look on the habitats they create for themselves. The exhibits are complemented by projections of other works by each of the participating photographers, selected from just one segment of their concurrent work programs. Karel Cudlín (*1960), Jan Dobrovský (*1960), Alžběta Jungrová (*1978), Antonín Kratochvíl (*1947), Jan Mihaliček (*1965) and Martin Wágner (*1980) view the nature of today’s world realistically, but each captures its mutability in his or her own way. As a guest, they have invited an Italian colleague and member of the famous Magnum Photos agency, the renowned photojournalist Paolo Pellegrin (*1964), to exhibit with them.

Alžběta Jungrová, Convicted through the Darkness, 2018, 400 ASA

Paolo Pellegrin, A man arrested by the police after assaulting his father, Rochester, New York, USA, 2012. Magnum Photos

view to 400 ASA: Simply Documentary... exhibition, House of Photography, 2020. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Bedřich Dlouhý: What I Like

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GHMP Knihovna
Mariánské náměstí 98/1
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
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Bedřich Dlouhý – What I Like is the first retrospective exhibition of the work of the painter Bedřich Dlouhý (*1932) from 1956 to the present day. It reveals the depth of Dlouhý’s creative imagination, the originality of his ideas and techniques, and it shows how his experimentation went beyond the contemporary concept of the medium of painting. In a selection of works, many of which were previously unknown and have never been shown before, the exhibition embraces the richness of this artist’s work and outlines how his art developed. Dlouhý was one of the co-founders of the legendary group The Šmidras (1957), and we explore Dlouhý’s still topical Dadaist and “Šmidra-esque” strategy of bridging seriousness, flippancy and absurdity. We discover the brilliance of his painting, his ironic takes on pop art and photorealism, and his witty paraphrasing of the old masters. We also examine his inventive use of assemblage and collage, two techniques that came to dominate his work. They offered him freedom of expression, they brought into play the principle of chance to stimulate his imagination, and they allowed him to extend his sense of humour and his ironic use of illusion. In this respect Dlouhý’s Šmidra-esque vitality remains unusually active, as is also demonstrated in a film that Aleš Kisil made in 2000 as part of Czech Television’s Ateliéry/Studios series. The documentary forms an integral part of this retrospective.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue designed by Zdeněk Ziegler.

Bedřich Dlouhý, Self-Portrait III, 2008, private collection

Bedřich Dlouhý, The Lacemaker, 1986. Museum Kampa – the Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Photo Oto Palán

view to the exhibition of Bedřich Dlouhý: What I Like exhitibion. Municipal Library, 2nd floor, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Květa Pacovská: Run till the End

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GHMP Colloredo-Mansfeld
Karlova 189/2
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
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After the retrospective of the conceptual artist Květa Pacovská in the Municipal Library, this time we will focus on the almost unknown, but even more important part of her art, in which in the 1960s and early 1970s she devoted herself to freeform printmaking and objects of paper and metal simultaneously to book design and illustrations. So far, due attention has not been paid to this area and it will come as a complete surprise to her fans. In fact, in her early work the artist had formulated her basic starting points, which she subsequently developed in her extraordinary and multi-layered oeuvre, consisting of not only artist’s books and illustrations, but also paintings, sculptures and drawings.

Květa Pacovská, Paper Sculpture, Black and White, 1970s

view to the exhibition of Květa Pacovská: Run till the End, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, 2019. Photo by Štěpán Grygar

Start up: Richard Janeček – I Think in an Ideal World, It Would Have Ended Very Differently

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GHMP Colloredo-Mansfeld
Karlova 189/2
110 00 Prague 1 – Staré Město
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Janeček’s project looks at the question of artificial intelligence (AI), which in various forms has started to become an integral part of our lives and is shaping our view of the world. Janeček takes a humanistic look at this artificial form of thinking and, by subjecting various objects to photogrammetric analysis, broadly demonstrates our own statistical way of seeing the world around us.

Richard Janeček, I think in an ideal world, it would have ended very differently, 2019

view to Start up: Richard Janeček: I Think in an Ideal World, It Would Have Ended Very Differently exhibition, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, coach house, 2019. Photo by Richard Janeček

J/P/K Jasanský Polák Karny

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Revoluční 1006/5
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The photographer duo Lukáš Jasanský (1965) and Martin Polák (1966) became involved in current events on the art scene in the late 1980s, and they have since become an important and inseparable part of it. For over three decades, this stable photographic tandem (at more or less regular intervals) has created exactly formulated conceptual projects. The basic means of expression of Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák are extensive photographic series, employing repetition, seriality or archive elements. All these characteristic features can also be applied to their new series J/P/K Jasanský Polák Karny to be presented for the first time ever in Prague City Gallery’s House of Photography. The photographs were taken in Poland, the country “near and far” to the Czech Republic, while the impulse for this series came from the regional genius loci. Thematically, the series touches on various phenomena and relics of post-socialist countries, but it predominantly deals with history and the passing of time in general. The series is “enshrouded” in a soft veil of nostalgia, but at the same time one can feel the photographers’ uncompromising ironic distance.

view to J/P/K Jasanský Polák Karny exhibition, House of Photography, 2019. Photo by Martin Polák

Lukáš Jasanský, Martin Polák, J/P/K Jasanský Polák Karny, 2019

Start up: Apart Collective / Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats

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Karlova 189/2
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Although late capitalism has experienced various cyclical periods of crisis since the 1970s, industrial modernism still appears to be not entirely exhausted. In fact, the historically most sensitive tremors are also accompanied by new ways of experiencing technological determinism. Slovakia’s Apart art collective uses sensual consumerist fetishes to present a drastic look at our consciousness at a time of environmental tragedy.

Apart Collective / Surface Depression and the Emergence of New Habitats

Aleš Hnízdil, Jiří Kačer – Sculptures and Objects

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GHMP Zámek Troja
U Trojského zámku 1/4
170 00 Prague 7
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Aleš Hnízdil and Jiří Kačer are artists of the same generation. Both of them were part of a group of young people who in the late 1980s started open criticism of the practices of the Czech Fine Artists’ Union and the Czech Fine Arts Fund, which eventually led to the reopening of the U Řečických Gallery, the first platform which gave space to artists just starting out, without any censorship and did not interfere with their production. It eventually became a unique laboratory of topical views of the time and their encounters, and cultivated the artistic orientation of this generation. Hnízdil and Kačer have chosen different paths and materials for their sculptural realizations and their works will complement each other, thanks to their different approaches to form and expression. While Hnízdil works with the vertically oriented ephemeral form of abstract wire structures with kinetic details, Kačer prefers stone in a both intimate and monumental format, with a graphically formulated texture on the surface of the lying blocks.

view to the exhibition Aleš Hnízdil, Jiří Kačer – Sculptures and Objects, Troja Château, 2019. Photo by Barbora Fastrová

Stone Treasures from Prague Gardens

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U Trojského zámku 1/4
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Art decorations and minor architecture formed integral part of historical gardens in Prague. These artworks, exposed to the weather for dozens of years, gradually disappeared from the gardens; either they were destroyed for good or had to be replaced by copies. Saved original sculptures and architectural elements were stored in the depositories of the Prague City Gallery. These exhibits include stone fountains with figures of the Nereid and dolphins from Troja Château, found in the 1980s during the reconstruction of the château and its gardens. The exhibition also presents original sculptures from Vrtbovská Garden, a group of Chinese people from the landscape park Cibulka, or Braun’s sculptures from Villa Portheimka.

view into the exhibition Stone Treasures from Prague Gardens, Troja Château, 2018. Photo by Jiří Thýn

František Bílek’s Chýnov Visions

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GHMP Bílkův dům
Údolní 133
391 55 Chýnov u Tábora
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Download the audio guide to the birthplace of František Bílek and the Chýnov cemetery with his works. The guide with commentary by curator Martin Krummholz is in Czech and English and can be downloaded for free.

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Tue-Sun 10–12 am, 1–5 pm

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This exhibition presents you extraordinary Art Deco and Symbolist work of artist, which built in his native town Chýnov place for his activities in the form of individualistic variety of family house with the studio. The architecture of the house built by František Bílek in 1898 from raw brickwork with contemporary folkish wooden components and cuttings refers to the Chýnov traditional architecture. The representative selection of works represents artist mainly as a sculptor, includes also some samples of original furniture sets designed by Bílek for his daughter Berta and his son František Jaromír.