The exhibition Sources of the New Style (2000) curated by the artists Milan Salák and Jan Kadlec took place in the Riding School at the Prague Castle. The curators displayed in glass show-cases toys belonging to forty artists, art theoreticians and architects who grew up in the 1970s and 80s. When we look back we realize that the exhibition was partly a serious and partly an ironic commentary of this kinship and an advance signal of the advent of the period of normalization which became a basic source for the work of a number of Czech artists after the year 2000. A part of the exhibition was a video in which some of the artists presented individual toys.
Other materials and documentation of this exhibition can be found at:https://www.jankadlec.com/art/zdroje-noveho-stylu
Featuring: David Adamec, Josef Bolf, Veronika Drahotová, Radka Exnerová, Radek Hanák Ondřej Chrobák, Jan Kadlec, Pavel Kappel, Lucie Loosová, Pavel Malina, Pavlína Morganová, Osamu Okamura, Jaromír Pesr, Michal Pěchouček, Jolana Ruchařová, Milan Salák, Jiří Skála, Sláva Sobotovičová, Vít Soukup, Tomáš Svoboda, Jáchym Šerých, Mark Ther, Radek Váňa, Markéta Vaňková, Radek Wohlmuth and others.
Technical notes:
VHS tape digitization. A technical error occurs between the 31st and 40th second of the recording caused by the original VHS tape.
VHS tape digitization VHS: VVP AVU
We wish to thank Milan Salák for the loan of the recording from the VVP AVU Videoarchive and for his help during the preparation of this documentary.
In “Window to the VVP AVU Video Archive,” the AVU Research Center (VVP AVU) collaborates with Artyčok.tv to regularly release works from the VVP AVU video archives. The selection for Artyčok.tv focuses on older works (from the late 20th century), works that straddle the line between video art, film and documentation, and purely documentary material related to recent developments in Czech and Slovak visual art.
