Art for Good - New Life for Exhibitions

Michal Matzenauer / Another Name (Advanced Time VI.)

The last lines published so far are from the collection Another Name, subtitled Advanced Age. Michal Matzenauer began writing the collection in 2017. More lines are added periodically, so the collection is not yet finished, and thus not published and available to read elsewhere.

Michal Matzenauer / Another Name (Advanced Time V.)

The collection Another Name, subtitled Advanced Age began Michal Matzenauer writing the collection in 2017. More lines are added periodically, so the collection is not yet finished, and thus not published and available to read elsewhere.

Michal Matzenauer / Another Name (Advanced Time IV.)

Michal Matzenauer began writing the collection Another Name, subtitled Advanced Time, in 2017. Regularly more lines are added. The collection is therefore not yet finished, and thus not yet published and available to read elsewhere, but each time after a year the author closes it into a yearly whol…

Adventure called Tvář

Selected articles on the importance of the monthly Tvář by Bohumil Doležal and Zdeněk Vašíček.

Tvář 1/64 - monthly, which emerged from the need of the soul and for the orientation of one’s own life.

Today, clip-like vision is trendy, sketchy writing concerning the latest banalities, and quickly read barks. That is why we like to draw attention to classics - texts that were written for life.

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Podoby I./67

After the first ban on publishing the magazine Tvář, Bohumil Doležal organized the literary anthology Podoby, followed by the anthology organized by Václav Havel Podoby II.

Podoby II./69

Tvář 0/68 UNPUBLISHED!

Original version of the first issue of the renewed Tvář (1/68). Contains substantial parts of the debate on the renewal of the magazine Tvář at the Central Committee of the SČSS.

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The featured issue of monthly Tvář is accompanied by Aubrey Breardsley's black ink drawings. Erotic illustrations for Oscar Wilde's Salome or Aristophanes' Lysistrata were rejected by Breardsley after his conversion and a year before his death. The editors selected the poetry from Bohuslav Reynek's…

Jan Jedlička

Catalogue of Jan Jedlicka's works published on the occasion of his extensive exhibition organized by the Prague City Gallery in the Municipal Library. The authors of the texts are: Bruno Corà, Jitka Hlaváčková, Friedemann Malsch, Marie Rakušanová and Kateřina Svatoňová.

Prague Fantastic Realism

The episode of Czech art history connected with the early work of Jan Jedlička, Vladivoj Kotyza and Mikuláš Rachlík has remained completely hidden from both art historians and the public for almost half a century.

Pavel Vošický / A STROLL THROUGH THE CENTURY

An animal with several noble qualities has already populated the entire planet and is heading into the cosmos, but when one recalls previous centuries he cannot feel exemplary or deserving of the title wise, not even rational, thoughtful et cetera.

Jiří Šalamoun Or Imaginable views of the World

children’s drawings, illustrations in their raw form, cantastoria, sketches for one’s own use, lithographs, posters, ... and poems

Ivan Sobotka / Faces and Eyes

The monograph of Ivan Sobotka (1927–2008), one of the most remarkable Czech artists of the second half of the twentieth century.

Věra Nováková / Whence come you, and whither are you going?

Life is like walking a tightrope that is stretched from one place to another, whence and whither we know not. We have only the rope beneath our feet, these few moments in ther world around us, voices, the reaction of the crowd.

Načeradský, Bolf a Typlt / Resonance

Exhibition catalogue of works on paper by Jiří Načeradský (1939-2014), Josef Bolf (1971) and Lubomír Typlt (1975), a former professor and two of his distinguished students

Stations of the Cross (concertina book), Jiří Kobr

The book actually came into being incidentally or, perhaps better, as a game. Sometime in 2014 I was to carve the Stations of the Cross for a certain chapel. This was a task I had always longed for, but at the same time I sensed a certain weight of responsibility. I had to prepare for it and think …

Květoš Vašíček & Miroslav Tichý, Zdeněk Vašíček & Rudolf Jičín / Alternative Gaya

What is an artistic work? Who is an artist? Are both bound somehow to a place and origin? What connects the inventive Květoslav Vašíček, the remarkable painter and thinker Miroslav Tichý, the friends and philosophers Rudolf Jičín and Zdeněk Vašíček, and the graceful and powerful painter and poet Ge…

Gertruda Gruber Göpfertová / Alternative Gaya

“I try to make it to or at least hobble towards the bridge between heaven and earth – to preserve joy, not remain beholden to wonder and gratitude. To call to mind every morning: God, it is You we praise, You we extol, to You we bow down. I too know many desolate and dark hours – with love as our i…

Gertruda Gruber Göpfertová / Winter Piano

A selection from poems and linocuts.

KAREL HYNEK MÁCHA / MAY

On the eve of the national holiday Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day, we present to you Mácha’s May, illustrated and published by Luboš Drtina, as a memorial to an extraordinary work last read by many, if at all, in school.

Wild Swine’s Horseradish

Horseradish as the deceased embedded in the earth, a tomcat’s wild eyes, a keyhole, the anal opening of an entangled intestine, apparitions of the deceased... Compiled by Miloš Doležal, Luboš Drtina handmade.

A conversation between Magor and Brikcius in the pub U Lojzy

Those who knew Eugen Brikcius at the time of his public performances probably think that he has left the scene. The opposite, however, is true.

Eugen Brikcius / Unloaded Artists or Kunsthistorical Fairy Tales

Those who listen to introductions at openings or read art-scientific treatises on the works, paintings and sculptures on display are often somewhat confused by what they hear or read in relation to what they see: the expert is trying to communicate something about something, in language about somet…

Eugen Brikcius / Sundial, photo Helena Wilson

The aesthetic experience of the confrontation of elements and landscape

Open letter from Eugen Brikcius to lawyer Ortová

Shut up! If this demonstration is repeated again, I will have the courtroom cleared. There's no happening here!

Marie Blabolilová / Rasters

Dark Spruce, Falling Snow, Larches and Firs, Blue Window, Chair, Cats, Glasses, Lilies, Hill, Christ

Interview with Václav Bláha / How to Think ... Art

Václav Bláha speaks with Karel Hvížďala on the ability to be free, the honest and upright father, illegible messages, art as a mystery and the possibilities of living a parallel life.