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DISEGNO INTERNO – EVA ŠVANKMAJEROVÁ / JAN ŠVANKMAJER

Held in the year of Jan Švankmajer’s 90th birthday, the exhibition covers all the areas in which this internationally acclaimed Surrealist has worked (collage, printmaking, objects and sculpture, book illustration, automatic drawing, tactile experiments, collecting and, of course, film). The exhibition’s central theme is the concept of disegno interno or ‘inner ordering’, in other words how the artist sees the essence of a given subject in their mind’s eye. In Švankmajer’s work, this notion links Rudolphine Mannerism with Surrealism’s ‘inner model’. A presentation of paintings by Švankmajer’s wife Eva Švankmajerová (1940–2005), which continues to engage in an original dialogue with his own work, will form an important part of the exhibition. The diverse programme of events accompanying the exhibition will focus on a variety of themes that Švankmajer’s unique imagination has explored over the years.

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Vratislav Karel Novák – Still Moving

Vratislav Karel Novák (1942-2014) was a sculptor, designer of original jewellery and a teacher. His work defies clear categorisation; it transcends the boundaries of individual disciplines and thus represents a wholly unique phenomenon in Czech art since the late 1960s. In Novák’s work, the geometric rationality of Constructivism is juxtaposed and intermingled with subversive irony; likewise, the hardness and sharpness of metal and glass is contrasted with the vulnerable sensuality of the human body.

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Martina Skala – Voyage

Martina Skala is known in the Czech Republic primarily as an author and illustrator of children’s books. The exhibition presents her original drawings for children’s books along with some of her fine art works, all of which explore her travels to different cultural realms, from Prague’s Lesser Town all the way to Native American villages.

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ABOUT YOU / Young Women Painters and Sculptors

This exhibition presents a curated selection of works by the youngest women painters and sculptors, with a focus on the figure and figuration. Its central motif is the presence of a strong generational statement and a reassessment of the media of painting and sculpture in the post-information age, when works have naturally come to integrate the influence of social networks in particular.

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JIŘÍ STRAKA – SILENCE

In his art, Jiří Straka, a performer, sinologist and painter inspired by calligraphy, focuses on the clash of cultures, specifically the spread of Catholicism into foreign environments such as China and Japan in the 17th century. He does so while drawing on his academic studies and personal experience, having lived long-term in Beijing. In combination with these ideas, his exhibition Silence, fittingly installed in the Baroque spaces of the former Jesuit College, focuses on today’s pressing issues connected with the ideology of globalism. The exhibited paintings don’t provide any universal answers or solutions; instead, they sensitively encourage us to think and ask new questions.

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Entrée

Entrée is a representative exhibition welcoming visitors to the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region through (what else?) works of art. Entrée consists of a selection of thirteen monumental sculptural objects by twelve leading artists whose work was acquired for the GASK collections primarily over the past several years or the acquisition of which the gallery is currently considering. Entrée is a survey of contemporary art by established artists as well as by representatives of the youngest generation.

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Facsimile of the Kutná Hora Illumination

The Kutná Hora Illumination, depicting silver mining and processing in Kutná Hora, is a title page (frontispiece) that was cut out of a now unknown choirbook.

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Open-air GASK

Project Open-air GASK is a presentation of sculptures and installations by artists represented in the permanent exhibitions States of Mind / Beyond the Image and Avenue of Saints or whose works are featured in current or upcoming exhibitions.

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