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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Prague City Gallery: Vladimír Boudník Prize: 20 Years

Vladimír Boudník Prize: 20 Years

4.3.2015 - 24.5.2015

Prague City Gallery

Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, Karlova 2, Prague 1

Open: Tue - Sun: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Admission: 60 CZK full / 30 CZK reduced

Curator: Duňa Panenková

The Vladimír Boudník Prize, awarded since 1995 for creative contribution to the Czech art of printmaking, is marking twenty years of existence. Its name projects the feelings of profound respect for the legacy of an artist who raised the status of the art of printmaking onto the level of an experimental laboratory, and propelled it to the front of the 1960s avant-garde movement. On the occasion of this anniversary, PCG is staging a retrospective of works by all previous winners of the Prize. The Prize, which is awarded by theInter-Kontakt-Grafik civic association jointly with the City of Prague, is destined for a living Czech artist with no age limits posed, and cannot be bestowed twice on the same individual.

Prizewinners to date
1 – 1995 Ladislav Čepelák
2 – 1996 Dalibor Chatrný
3 – 1997 Alena Kučerová
4 – 1998 Eduard Ovčáček
5 – 1999 Jan Kubíček
6 – 2000 Jan Měřička
7 – 2001 Květa Pacovská
8 – 2002 Michal Cihlář
9 – 2003 Marie Blabolilová
10 – 2004 Jiří Anderle
11 – 2005 Jaroslava Severová
12 – 2006 Lubomír Přibyl
13 – 2007 Vojtěch Kovářík
14 – 2008 Zdeněk Sýkora
15 – 2009 Mikoláš Axmann
16 – 2010 František Hodonský
17 – 2011 Jiří Lindovský
18 – 2012 Oldřich Kulhánek
19 – 2013 Zbyněk Janáček
20 – 2014 Jindřich Růžička



Ladislav Cepelak, Furrow, 1992.






Jan Mericka, Tram no.5, Liberec - Jablonec 2, 2008


Dalibor Chatrny, Two - handed drawing I, 1994.


Jan Kubicek, Divided elements - two dimensions, 1988-2007


Kveta Pacovska, Structure Of time, 2007, Intersection, 2001.


Kveta Pacovska, Sculpture in a surface, 2000.


Alena Kucerova, My meadow, 1993.


Jiri Anderle, Disapointment, 2007.


Marie Blabolilova, Large interior, 1989.


Michal Cihlar, Araki, 2012.


Vojtech Kovarik, Table and Chair, 2011.


Mikolas Axmann, Ferryman, 2011.



Zbynek Janacek, New Canvas Nos.13A,B,C,D, 2015.



Oldrich Kulhanek, Blindman's holiday, 1967


Jiri Lindovsky, Untitled 1, 1987.


Zdenek Sykora, Colour structure, 1967/2009.





















Sunday, April 5, 2015

Czech Center in Prague: Latislav Sitenský

Latislav Sitenský

Wings

20.3.2015 - 25.4.2015

Czech Center in Prague

Rytířska 31, Prague 1

Open: mon-fri 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., sat 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.


Ladislav Sitenský captured aviators, mechanics and their machines during the World War II. His black and white photographs have been taken at the Czechoslovak squadrons of the Royal Air Force. Exhibition takes visitors on the tour beginning at pilots boarding to the surrender of France; it takes them aboard the ship to Britain; shows military airports one after another; documents the celebrations at the end of the war in London as well as survivors repatriation.

































Gallery of Česká Spořitelna: Bohemian Landscape II

Bohemian Landscape II

9.2.2015 - 30.4.2015

Gallery of Česká Spořitelna

Rytířska 29, Prague 1

Open: daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Admission: free


Curator: Duňa Panenková


Paintings from a collection of Česká Spořitelna, mainly landscape paintings from the first half of the 20th century.



Gustav Macoun (1892-1934), A view from a hilltop at Vsetinsko


Gustav Macoun(1894-1934), Birchtrees by a road.






Otakar Moravec (1903-1962), A road by Trebic.



Josef Ullmann, 1870-1922



Karl Schadt(1888-1952), Na Horni Becve.




















Thursday, April 2, 2015

hunt kastner gallery: The Best Tailor in Town

Jan Bohac, Richard Healy, 

Anna Hulacova, Ondrej Kinsky,

David Krnansky, Marek Meduna,

Marketa Othova, Jiri Thyn, 

Viktorie Valocka and 

Klara Vystrcilova

The Best Tailor in Town

28.2.2015 - 11.4.2015

hunt kastner gallery

Bořivojova 85, Prague 3

Curators: Edit Jeřábková, Jiří Kovanda

Open: mon-sun closed, tue-fri 1 p.m. - 6 p.m., sat 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Admission: free


Hunt kastner is pleased to present our second group exhibition curated by the curator/artist team of Edith Jeřabková and Jiří Kovanda, The Best Tailor in Town. The exhibition presents a wide array of mediums (painting, sculpture, photography, and video) from emerging and mid-generation artists, whose common denominator is a certain approach to materiality and form during a period of, as it is referred to by some theorists , digital capitalism. 

We used to think that the media is a kind of automatic thing – we want to express something, and therefore we reach into the closet to find what is closest to our idea. This is, of course, quite logical and correct. But what if some things arise otherwise, arising from the continuous development of transformation, from a combination of successes and mistakes, just from that backpressure media that does not fit, material that is rigidly same suspiciously traditional, classical, unpleasant or too friendly. What if she lightness assignment forms the content is not sustainable forever and slips into the stage susceptible to formalism, the "anything goes", to offer clothes for this or that concept. Technology, engineering, material and form suddenly refuse to squirm under priori arbitrariness content and begin to weave it into his intentions and plans. 

Not looking for anything new. Everything we already have. At first you may feel that you've seen it a dozen times. Or go ahead and hundreds of times. And yet suddenly else ...? We just do what we're doing. And what you did too. We open drawers and light take up buried things. What is really important is simple and uncomplicated. A beautiful. We have it in your eyes incessantly. The best tailors in sews perfect suits. They are perfect cut of selected substances. All exactly the same for years. And yet you have a nagging and nagging feeling that everyone is different. „ 

Edith Jeřábková and Jiří Kovanda




Jiří Thýn: Untitled, From "The Two Ends of a Distance" series, 2014


David Krňanský, We forgot how to make a fire, 2015


David Krňanský: I'm too lazy to do anything, 2015


Richard Healy, Albert Goldman's Martini Pitcher Stirrer, 2014


Viktorie Valocká, Untitled, From the "Bad Sheets" series, 2014


Viktorie Valocká, Untitled, From the "Bad Sheets" series, 2014


Klára Vystrčilová, from the "Girls" series, 2014


Klára Vystrčilová, from the "Boys don't cry" series, 2014


Klára Vystrčilová, from the "Boys don't cry" series, 2014


Anna Hulačová


Markéta Othová, 2011


Jiří Thýn, from the "The Two Ends of a Distance" series, 2015


Jan Boháč, Vesuvius series, 2015


Ondřej Kinský, Costume, 2015














Fotografic Gallery: Jindra Viková

Jindra Viková

Subtle moments

25th of March - 3rd of May 2015

Fotografic gallery

Stříbrná 2, Praha 1

Curator: Pavel Baňka

Admission: free

Open: mon - tue 1 a.m. - 6 p.m., thu - sun 1 a.m. - 6 p.m.


“In her artwork, Jindra Viková moves freely between sculpture, drawing, collage and assemblage. In recent years, assemblages in particular became a favourite means of her expression. She likes to give an interpretation to accidentally discovered objects, as well as to her own or found photographs. She then arranges them into perspex boxes, creating original, sometimes ironic, sometimes kind, but also provocative artefacts. Her obsession with the recycling of forgotten objects or workshop waste is perhaps fuelled by an attempt to halt the transiency of our time. Through unexpected encounters in her assemblages she perhaps tries to give a new lease of life to those ‘overlooked, rejected, or otherwise doomed objects’.  Subtle moments which will not return. A memory soon replaced by newer one. However these things are not defined enough to be captured in writing as a diary. Or perhaps they are, but for Jindra, her assemblages and collages represent a more precise record of the flurry of her curiosity which was awaken by the moment of observing an event which happened to be rushing into oblivion. The artist herself avoids any attempts of interpretation. In the current show at Fotografic, the artist for the first time exhibits just assemblages, elevating them to a new position within her existing richly structured work.” 

Pavel Baňka

Jindra Viková (1946), born in Prague, graduated from VSUP, consistently tries to show personal characters, intimate moods and human relationships. Her work is known for subtle ironic and humorous poetics which often contains more complicated hidden implications.