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Sounds / Codes / Images

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The exhibition offers a historical overview of art that depicts sound as an abstract phenomenon, from the beginnings of abstraction to the present day. Its main focus is to trace the most important trends in audio experimentation in the field of the visual arts, in the form of paintings or graphic scores as well as audio installations, acoustic objects, film, and multimedia projections. Through our selection of historical materials, we aim to show how sound acquires color and shape, how it becomes an object or architecture, and what psychological as well as physical and mathematical factors determine its visual form. The exhibition also presents works by artists who have, on either the local or international level, shifted the way we think about artistic experimentation. Leading artists whose works will be shown at the exhibit include František Kupka, members of the Bauhaus, John Cage and members of Fluxus, various creators of graphic scores, Woody and Steina Vasulka, as well as other authors of audio objects and installations and artists working with acoustic ecology.

Exhibited authors:

Milan Adamčiak, Karel Adamus, Alois Bílek, John Cage, Peter Cusack, Federico Diaz, Irena a Karel Dodalovi, Tomáš Dvořák, Luboš Fidler, Ken Friedman, Michal Gabriel (Růžena Zátková), Christina Della Giustina, Milan Grygar, Milan Guštar, Jolana Havelková, Vladimír Havlík, Pavel Hayek, Dick Higgins, Arne Hošek, Tomáš Hrůza, Martin Janíček, Joe Jones, Olga Karlíková, Michal Kindernay, Milan Knížák, Jiří Kolář, Rudolf Komorous, Petr Kotík, Milan Kozelka, František Kupka, Ladislav Kupkovič, František Kyncl, Peter Machajdík, Alex Mlynárčik, Manfred Mohr, Gordon Monahan, Monogramista T.D, Charlotte Moorman, Pavel Mrkus, Michal Murin, Morgan O’Hara, Opening Performance Orchestra, Nam June Paik, Štěpán Palla, Ben Patterson (a Jozef Cseres), Zdeněk Pešánek, Jan Pfeiffer, Alois Piňos + Dalibor Chatrný, Miroslav Ponc, Keith Rowe, Blahoslav Rozbořil, Pavel Rudolf, Jan Steklík, Jaroslav Šťastný (Peter Graham), Jiří Suchánek, Jiří Valoch, Jitka Válová, Tomáš Vaněk, Steina Vasulka, Woody Vasulka, Jolana Havelková + Lucie Vítková, Robert Vlasák, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Jan Wojnar

view to Sounds / Codes / Images – Audio Experimentation in the Visual Arts exhibition, Stone Bell House, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Woody Vasulka, Thierry, 1970, video, 2 min., Prague City Gallery

Peter Cusack, Ice Bells, video, 9:47 min., courtesy of the author

Milan Knížák, Actual Music (partitury), around 1965. Prague City Gallery

Arne Hošek, Tá – Turá (from the collection of Slovak folk songs), 1932. Prague City Gallery

Carnations and Velvet

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Surprising similarities, parallels and paradoxes of epoch-making events in Portugal and Czechoslovakia. Borders of a democratic continent, as well as borders of an epoch – Carnation and Velvet Revolutions as the first and last of the “third wave” of world revolutions and their reflection in visual arts.

The curatorial project Carnations and Velvet / Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia for the first time presents Portuguese art in the Czech lands and Slovakia. The common starting point is the year 1968, the time of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia and the spring of Marcelo Caetano in Lisbon. This year brought about first hopes for the end of the existing undemocratic regimes – the hopes that were thwarted by the Soviet occupation in Czechoslovakia and by the continuation of the colonial war in Portugal. The years 1974 and 1989, the dates of peaceful revolutions, brought freedom to both countries. The Carnation Revolution took place on 25 April 1974, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia on 17 November 1989.

The project features works of Czechoslovak artists, the legendary personalities who were of crucial importance for the formation of contemporary art in their diverse responses to the totalitarian regime, namely Adriena Šimotová, Eva Kmentová, Květa Válová, Jitka Válová, Jiří Kovanda, Petr Štembera, Karel Miler, Jan Mlčoch, Milan Knížák, Václav Havel, Jiří Kolář, Július Koller, Ľubomír Ďurček, Mária Bartuszová, Jana Želibská and many others. They will be juxtaposed with their Portuguese contemporaries such as Helena Almeida, Lourdes Castro, Ana Vieira, Ana Hatherly, Fernando Calhau, Manuel Alvess, António Barros, Silvestre Pestana, Alberto Carneiro, Ernesto de Sousa, Álvaro Lapa a José de Guimarães. Space will also be given to the younger generation of artists who reflect the theme of both totalitarian regimes, such as Zbyněk Baladrán, Carla Filipe and Ana de Almeida. In addition to works of art, the exhibition will feature extensive research by České televize, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, Václav Havel Library, Fundacão Soares and the private archives of Portuguese students who, as the first foreign delegation, came to support the democratization of Czechoslovakia. As a token of support and sympathy, they handed out 50,000 roses to the people assembled at the rally on Národní Street, and, together with President Mário Soares, donated a car to Václav Havel.

The large-scale research project will be accompanied by a trilingual publication with articles by Sandra Baborovská, Adelaide Ginga, Pavel Szobi, Vít Havránek and Ana de Almeida. The publication and exhibition have been created in association with Prague City Gallery and the Museu Nacional Contemporânea do Chiado.

view to Carnations and Velvet / Art and Revolution in Portugal and Czechoslovakia 1968–1974–1989 exhibition. Municipal Library, 2nd floor, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Portugal, December 14, 1990 – Cabo da Roca – Václav Havel on the Atlantic coast near the westernmost tip of the European continent, photo: Tomki Němec/400ASA. Any other/further distribution of the photo only with the written permission of the author

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, The Tree of Liberty, 1974–1975, Colecção MNAC. Ex-Col. SEC- Casa Morgados da Pedricosa

António Barros, Revolution, 1977, Col. Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Fernando Calhau, #99 (Materialization of an Imaginary Square), 1974. Zdroj: 1960–1980. Anos de Normalização Artística na Colecções do Museu do Chiado, 2003

Order of Liberty for Václav Havel, 1990. Source: Fundaçao Mário Soares / Arquivo Soares

Report about roses event. In the Portuguese press, 1989. Source: Biblioteca Municipal de Lisboa

Porto, 25 April 1975, election day. Source: Petr Morávek

Start up: Ondřej Filípek – Ligament

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Within the Cartesian coordinate system, man is always standing at the center of the world, observing it. In his 1936 text The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem, Jan Patočka describe three possible movements in human life: the movement of the anchorage or acceptance we receive from others; the movement of the work and struggle by which we influence our present conditions, which we adapt to life; and the movement of breaking through or truth, which is our only activity not determined by our given situation. As described by Patočka, experienced movement is not a mere prospect of the consciousness – far more than that, it is a physical act.

The work of Ondřej Filípek (*1993) centers on the human figure surrounded by the ruins of our present day, which he tries to renew with the help of its long-buried relicts. This is done at places of interface – where the sculpture as a figure, a vertical creation resembling the human body, meets its base. Patočka speaks of physical awareness as an active deed: Through the figural sculpture and its situation within the context of the exhibition, Filípek attempts to demonstrate man’s radical connection to the state of things in which he is situated. The constructive principle of his exhibition thus resembles an attempt at finding one’s way in a world without fixed reference points. It is within this process that Filípek applies his strategy of bringing to life technology by using it in organic forms resembling the human body, placed within an industrial framework. Under the burden of technology’s ruination of human naturalness, Filípek again begins to build verticals, to reconstruct the natural human awareness lost within the web of postindustrial thinking in the world today.

During his time at the Academy of Fine Arts, Filípek studied sculpture, first under Jaroslav Róna and then under Lukáš Rittstein, graduating in 2018 from Vojtěch Míča’s Studio of Figural Sculptures and Medals. Past exhibitions include the group exhibitions Against Nature at the Trade Fair Palace and The Possibilities of Dialogue #1 at the Salm Palace.

view to the exhibition Start up: Ondřej Filípek − Ligament, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, coach house, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Lukáš Machalický: Eclecticism Hour

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Lukáš Machalický’s art is characterized by the purity of form, installation and architecture which seemingly excludes any spontaneity or randomness. Yet, deviations, balancing, ambiguity and systems that fail are a key factor in this artist’s work. It is not necessary to give specific examples of situations, the breadth is substantial – from banality to seriousness. Machalický’s exhibition on the historic principal floor of Colloredo-Mandsfeld Palace is a logical follow-up to his exhibitions In the Park (New Jörg, Vienna, 2018) and Body Immersed in a Fluid (MeetFactory, Prague, 2017). The strictly geometric composition and symmetry of the piano nobile calls for a kind of space mystification. Inevitably, the originally intended perfection is marred by fundamental faults and failures. Indeed, the false appearance, uncertainty or ambivalence is typical of this artist.

view to the exhibition Lukáš Machalický: Eclecticism Hour, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, piano nobile, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Michaela Vélová Maupicová (1982–2018)

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The work of this prematurely deceased artist will be presented an exhibition prepared by the team of her colleagues from Prague City Gallery and the curator Petr Vaňous. This “artist and painter, sometimes reaching out to the object, installation and new media, has developed her own distinctive artistic expression consisting of ‘abstracted storytelling’, which can be described as existential. Michaela Maupicová’s drawings represent a spontaneously multiplying, restless, all-absorbing ornament, sometimes disciplined into symmetrical systems, sometimes running and spilling randomly over and outside the format, or expanding directly into space. Here there is an order in randomness, an enlargement that in a model situation of the given unifying element and its multiplication allows us to see our analogous idea of what is happening outside and inside of us.”

Michaela Maupicová, from the series Compositions VIII, 2018. Photo by Marcel Rozhoň

view to the exhibition Michaela Vélová Maupicová (1982–2018), Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Michaela Maupicová, from the series O-prints III, 2014. Collection of the Klatovy Klenová Gallery

Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018

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The documentarian Jiří Hanke (born 1944) deals with long-term, socially focused projects. His photographs have often been inspired by his native town of Kladno. His oldest closed photographic series is entitled People from Podprůhon 1974–1989 (published in book form in 1995). The historical value of documenting the lifestyle of a vanishing working-class colony was obvious even at the time of its inception. The historically grounded testimonies of human existence at the same time represent a general statement reaching beyond the borders of the given region. Hanke’s key series Views from the Window of My Flat consists of snapshots taken from 10 September 1981 to 10 January 2003 (published in book form in 1994 and 2013). An old double-portrait of Hanke with his father, whose photographic talent he inherited, led him to the series The Echoes of a Generation (1998). Since 1986, Hanke has extended it by other diptychs or more comprehensive series of portraits of parents and children. A cross-section of his extensive oeuvre, prepared on the occasion of Hanke’s 75th birthday, also includes his other series featuring classic black-and-white images: Paris Fragments, TV Image, Echoes and Periphery. The curator of the retrospective exhibition is Josef Moucha, the author of the monograph Jiří Hanke (2008).

view to the exhibition Jiří Hanke: Photographs 1973–2018, House of Photography, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Start up: Ondřej Vicena – 4D Carriage

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Ondřej Vicena (b. 1988) is an artist with two complementary careers. In one, he works with arts and crafts, and in the other he creates works of fine art. In his installations, he goes in search of lost categories of beauty within archives of the visual garbage of recent history – trash both real and virtual. Today – in a manner reminiscent of Clement Greenberg’s famous thesis – we, too, are restoring the pluralist form of traditional categories of art through the intersection of culture with parallel expressions of high and low art, whose relationship has in the meantime been turned upside down. Ondřej Vicena is a graduate of Tomáš Svoboda’s Department of New Media at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts (2018).

view to the exhibition Start up: Ondřej Vicena − 4D Carriage, Colloredo-Manfeld Palac, coach house, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

The Transformation of Geometry

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The exhibition project of Prague City Gallery, entitled The Transformation of Geometry, employs the profile of two significant private collections – Sammlung Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin, and Miroslav Velfl, Prague – to present gems by outstanding Czech and foreign artists, based on reductive geometric or, respectively, structural concepts. For the first time ever in the given extent, it mediates the dialogue between two collection strategies in the framework of an identical subject, which at the same time opens interesting space for ponderings on what they have in common and in what they differ.

The Berlin collector Siegfried Grauwinkel has been building his collection for more than thirty years. Over time, he switched from its initially wider concept to Concrete Art and geometric forms in general, and currently also extends them with examples of Fundamental and Radical Painting. The collection of Miroslav Velfl, too, initially had wider focus. However, the collector in the recent years exclusively turned to Constructivist tendencies found in both Czech and foreign art from the period between 1960s and the beginning of the new millennium.

Exhibited authors:

Miroslav Velfl Collection
Anni Albers, Leon Polk Smith, Francois Morellet, Jiří Kolář, Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Manfred Mohr, Zdeněk Sýkora, Kenneth Martin, Karel Malich, Günther Uecker, Vladimir Kokolia, František Kyncl, Josef Hiršal, Hugo Demartini, Radek Kratina, Lev Valdemarovič Nusberg, Auguste Herbin, Dalibor Chatrný, Vladislav Mirvald, Kamil Linhart, Milan Grygar, Petr Kvíčala, Rita Ernst, Horst Bartnig, Paul Richard Lohse, Henryk Stazewski, Getulio Alviani, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Cesar Domela, Anthony Hill, Richard Paul Lohse, Pavel Mansouroff, Mauro Reggiani, Jesus Rafael Soto, Fausta Squatriti, Jeffrey Steale, Victor Vasarely, Steven Aalders

Siegfried Grauwinkel Collection
Frank Badur, Imre Bak, Horst Bartnig, Hartmuth Böhm, Max Bill, Andreas Brandt, Max Cole, Suzanne Daetwyler, Piero Dorazio, Paul Uwe Dreyer, Rita Ernst, Günther Förg, Dan Freudenthal, Günter Fruhtrunk, Heinz Gappmayr, Johanes Geccelli, Kuno Gonschior, Camille Graeser, István Haász, Marcia Hafif, Herbert Hinteregger, Olaf Holzapfel, Alfred Hückler, Callum Innes, Imi Knoebel, Imre Kocsis, Matti Kujasalo, Adolf Luther, Gianni Colombo, Susanne Lyner, Ray Malone, Dóra Maurer, Manfred Mohr, Lienhard von Monkiewitsch, Francois Morellet, Jan van Munster, Aurelie Nemours, Kenneth Noland, Georg Karl Pfahler, Gudrun Piper, Henri Prosi, Rolf Rose, Reinhard Roy, Klaus J. Schoen, Christiane Schlosser, Elisabeth Sonneck, Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz, Esther Stocker, Günther Uecker, Rudolf Valenta, Victor Vasarely, Heimo Zobernig, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Anton Stankowski, Betty Rieckmann, Bernar Venet, Mar Vicente, Ryszard Winiarski, Turi Simeti, Andreas Brandt, Stefanos Gazis, Kristin Gerber, Thomas Kaminsky, Jan Kotík, Christian Roeckenschuss, Peter Sedgley

Zdeněk Sýkora, Third Phase, 1997, serigraphy, 70×70 cm

view to the exhibition The Transformation of Geometry / Collections Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin and Miroslav Velfl, Prague, Municipal Library, 2nd floor, 2019. Photo by Jiří Thýn

Max Bill, heller kern, 1972/1973, Siegfried Grauwinkel Collection

Start up: Eliška Havlíková: Hungry, For more.

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Eliška Havlíková is a student of new media, currently studying under Anna Daučíková at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. An associative series of visual text collages breaks free from the surface of the canvas and enters the gallery space. The artist uses strategies from the worlds of film and advertising, sophisticatedly combining and editing image, text, and sound.

Eliška Havlíková, Hungry, For more, video, 2017

view to the exhibition Start up: Eliška Havlíková: Hungry, For more. Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, coach house, 2019. Photo by Tomáš Souček

Probe 1

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The exhibition will introduce Czech public into one of the crucial tendencies found in modern and contemporary Slovak art. It will focus on the origination and development of Conceptual and post-Conceptual Art within the horizon of the past fifty years in Slovakia, i.e. from the alternative, unofficial scene of the 1960s to the post-1989 legal artistic platform. The oeuvres of two generations of artists, such as Viktor Frešo, Jozef Jankovič, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová, Martin Kochan, Július Koller, Marek Kvetan, Ján Mančuška, Roman Ondák, Boris Ondreička, Monogramista T.D, Rudolf Sikora, Pavla Sceranková, Peter Rónai and Jaro Varga, will serve to present particular forms of Conceptual artistic morphology, as it was shaped by the new aesthetic criteria with their codes, in the context of time.

The exhibition, held as a specific contribution to the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the existence of Czechoslovakia, will go hand in hand with interventions by several Czech artists (Jan Brož, Alice Nikitinová, Vít Soukup, Pavel Sterec, Antonín Střížek, Michaela Thelenová) who will loosely contextualize selected historical, social, economic and world-view facets of our history. Their main subject of interest is the transformations of the internal social paradigm, presented the loss of the utopian outreach of our thinking in connection with the declining big ideologies.