Eugen Brikcius / Sundial, photo Helena Wilson
In the summer of 1970 Eugen Brikcius realized his last exercise, if you want a happening or land-art event, the Sundial, for twenty years. The participants marked the shadow of a column erected in a meadow in an abandoned quarry near Roztoky at regular intervals throughout the day. The event had the character of a melancholic picnic - the company suspected that they were saying goodbye to happier times.
In the catalogue of the Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem you can find out how the idea of the Sundial was born in the detention cell in Konviktská Street or how a suitable place and tools for the exercise were found. Above all, we try to give you an aesthetic experience of the confrontation between the elements and the landscape.
Exhibitions
Publications
- A conversation between Magor and Brikcius in the pub U Lojzy
- Eugen Brikcius / Sundial, photo Helena Wilson
- Eugen Brikcius / Unloaded Artists or Kunsthistorical Fairy Tales
- Open letter from Eugen Brikcius to lawyer Ortová
Films
- Pupating and Sundials
- Nepředmětně holka mysli!
- Nepředmětně holka mysli! (Sous-titres en français)
- Pilgrimage to Brandýs and Dining
- La fille pensant d’une manière nonfigurative
