Patrik Hábl | The Body of the Image
13. 8. - 18. 10. 2020
Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava
Komensky Street No. 10
Jihlava
Curator Radek Wohlmuth
The exhibition project of one of the most prominent Czech painters of the middle generation, Patrik Hábl (1975), is based on the parallel between the painting and the human body. However, it is not, in the true sense of the word, a figuration, but rather its "cursed" metaphor in abstraction. Images, like people, have their destinies, qualities and indispositions. It is possible to judge them only by their appearance, or to proceed in layers towards their interior. On the one hand, they arise in close dependence on the human body, which is reflected, for example, in their proportions and format, on the other hand, they accompany and shape a man from an early age. Given that time plays an important role in both cases, it is a selection of works with a touch of retrospective thinking, the focus of which, however, is anchored at present. For this reason, within the exhibition it is possible to perceive not only the development of Hábl's intuitive thinking through painting, but also to be aware of the context and mutual conditionality of his work.
TECHNO-COLOR | Šárka Pelikánová - Jan Poupě - Jakub Sýkora
13. 8. – 18. 10. 2020
ALTERNATIVA
Komensky Street No. 10
Jihlava
The title of the TECHNO-COLOR exhibition refers to the author's approach to color, which is common to all three artists. It is an emphasis on experimental work with color and at the same time on the acoustic side in the perception of color and color relationships (color phonetics). Attention is paid to the constructive conception of the painting, which often has in common with traditional painting only the basic means of expression by which the author of the painting achieves - brush, color and canvas. Often the brush is absent and is replaced by other, more suitable tools. The painting is very far from the classical concept, in which brush strokes play an important role, a kind of distinctive "recitation", which creates a recognizable and emblematic author's handwriting. Here, on the contrary, the gesture of painting is suppressed in order for the concept of the painting, or rather its founding idea, to stand out. The image is the materialization of this thought-reflection. And this materialization carries certain specific technical and phonetic qualities, especially in the direction of optics, visual acoustics and harmonic (but also disharmonic) resonance.
Alena Kučerová
19. 11. 2020 – 14. 2. 2021
Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava
Komensky Street No. 10
Jihlava
Curator: Lucie Šiklová
Alena Kučerová (1935) has been one of the prominent figures in Czech fine art since the mid-1960s, a recognized critic of our country and abroad. She has won a number of important awards in the Czech Republic and abroad for her graphic work. In addition to Czech collection institutions, she is also represented at MoMA New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Art Institute of Chicago and Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.