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Zbyšek Sion, Petr Lampl, Jan Steklík + 10 more
In their openness – in terms of both authorship and chronological delimitation – they are happenings in the purest sense of the word, although this term is rarely applied to the Crusaders’ activities.
If we ignore the footage of Vladimír Boudník in Jaromír Pergler’s 1956 film Action in the Streets of Prague, then the oldest known cinematic record of Czech performance art are Rudolf Němec’s films from the early 1970s.
Lumír Hladík
I asked my friends to drive me (blindfolded), and a large mirror to the Baltic Sea coast in East Germany. Upon our arrival, my friends placed the mirror in an upright position on the beach facing the sea. I was escorted towards the mirror, where I sat down, removed the blindfold and watched the sea’s reflection in the mirror.
Jiří Surůvka
It was a bizarre spectacle based on the lack of artistic talent of the main actors who were staging awkward aesthetics of clumsiness they found in themselves or models such as Stalin, Hitler, Miki Volek (a Czech rock'n'roll singer), Gary Glitter, The Olympic music group. Czech pop music and TV shows, our parents, Czech art historians, poets and many others. Anyone could become an object of ridicule and disgrace.
Jaroslav Frič, Radůz Činčera, Zdeněk Liška
We are presenting the monumental commission for the Iranian Shah in Teheran year 1977. Before the contract was unexpectedly terminated a year later due to the coup in Iran, Czechoslovakia managed to make great profit and the then Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal acknowledged the economic contribution of Art Centrum, which was transferred in 1977 under the Federal Ministry of Foreign Trade and was thus saved from being closed down.
The mini-symposium “Bauhaus and Functionalism” examines the reception and interpretation of the emergence of Functionalism in Czechoslovakia in the interwar period and connections with Bauhaus in Germany. The leading theorist of the modernist avant-garde Karel Teige and his teaching at the Bauhaus are ideal examples of networking between these countries.
Jiří Novák, Jiří Borl, Jiří Sozanský
In July 1981, when Sozanský created his first work in Most, Jiří Putta came to take photographs at the place and the Film and TV School graduate Michal Baumbruck together with the cameraman František Brabec recorded on film there. The resulting film depicts not only the sculptures but also performances with actors which Sozanský staged for the film purposes. The film was called Evacuation and it was shown just few times during the 1980s at meetings of the artist's friends.
Josef Bolf, Petr Malina, Pavel Kappel + 23 more
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.
Jiří David
Probably the only film footage from unofficial Confrontations, the exhibitions organized by students of Prague´s art academies in 1984-1987.The second exhibition of the six took place in 1984 in a house rented by a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, Petr Petr, in Krymská 21, Praha-Vršovice. The participants were students from the Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design and two foreign visiting students who covered not only the walls of the house, but also space in the yard and on the porch by their artworks.
Jan Ságl
The camera on a tripod recorded women, men and children coming up on an escalator from the subway at Wenceslas Square from the then still non-existent underground station Můstek. Their faces reflect everyday commonness and their passive bodies are brought up to the surface in a continual stream on an escalator. Through those people Ságl showed the resignation of Czech society during the normalization period.
Aleš Záboj
The shop with off-price drugstore products used to be in Bayerova street in Brno between 1986–1989 and it also served as an independent exhibition place.Its conception was created by Petr Oslzlý and Rostislav Pospíšil who represented the fine art and theatre area and its technical support was provided by the drugstore manager Drahomír Svatoň.