MILAN KOHOUT - RETROSPECTIVE

A retrospective exhibition of works by performer, action artist, poet, and teacher Milan Kohout.  In 1986, Kohout and several other Charter 77 signatories were expelled from the country because of their political and cultural activities. Today, he works in Boston, Massachusetts. The defining direction taken by Kohout’s American art results from his realization that the capitalist system in the United States is no more than a different form of totalitarianism that one must resist just as much as the hated communist regime. The exhibition presents two key activities in Kohout’s politically engaged work. One of these is the production of activist posters criticizing America’s economy, oil policy, war machinery, media manipulation, religious blindness, racism, and prejudices. Kohout’s main focus, however, remains on action art.