Devětsil 1920–1931 - exhibition at the House of the Stone Bell
House At the Stone Bell, December 11, 2019 – March 29, 2020
Author of the exhibition concept: Alena Pomajzlová
The first and also the last exhibition of the Artistic Union Devětsil at the Gallery of the City of Prague took place in 1986, over thirty years ago. František Šmejkal prepared it in collaboration with Rostislav Švácha and Jan Rouse. The Czech artistic avant-garde of the 1920s subsequently underwent a series of partial or monographic exhibitions – for example, the Brno Devětsil or the early works of Josef Šíma – but has not yet been comprehensively and with new insights processed.
The forthcoming exhibition and publication aim not only to synthesize but also to offer a different perspective. It focuses primarily on what was essential for the Devětsil approach to creation and its activities: a departure from the traditional concept of an autonomous artwork, in which the Bazaar of Modern Art from 1923 played a key role, an attempt (at least in projects) at interdisciplinary creation, etc. The role of architecture, photography, film, theater, and entertainment will be highlighted. The project will attempt to evoke the atmosphere of Teiga's "ars una".
The second main goal will be to showcase live contacts with the European avant-garde through magazines that became an important international medium for the transmission of information. As the concept of the exhibition suggests, the intention is to approach it intermedially to better present the poetics of Devětsil: it will include architectural and scenographic models, film projections, sound recordings, digitization of magazines, and photographic reproductions. Thus, the priority should not be "classical" visual art (the represented works focus on selected key pieces, especially on combined techniques such as collage, photomontage, etc.) and its presentation in a museum-type exhibition, but rather a lively presentation of the visuality preferred by Devětsil. This will correspond to the catalog, which will offer not only synthetic studies from architecture (Jakub Potůček) and introduce magazines, typography, and the genesis of Devětsil (Jindřich Toman), also in Brno (Petr Ingerle), theater and scenography (Jitka Ciampi Matulová), film (Lucie Česálková), photography (Karel Císař), and fine arts (Alena Pomajzlová). The exhibition and catalog should also serve, not least, as a remembrance of František Šmejkal, who passed away thirty years ago.
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Author of the exhibition concept: Alena Pomajzlová
The first and also the last exhibition of the Artistic Union Devětsil at the Gallery of the City of Prague took place in 1986, over thirty years ago. František Šmejkal prepared it in collaboration with Rostislav Švácha and Jan Rouse. The Czech artistic avant-garde of the 1920s subsequently underwent a series of partial or monographic exhibitions – for example, the Brno Devětsil or the early works of Josef Šíma – but has not yet been comprehensively and with new insights processed.
The forthcoming exhibition and publication aim not only to synthesize but also to offer a different perspective. It focuses primarily on what was essential for the Devětsil approach to creation and its activities: a departure from the traditional concept of an autonomous artwork, in which the Bazaar of Modern Art from 1923 played a key role, an attempt (at least in projects) at interdisciplinary creation, etc. The role of architecture, photography, film, theater, and entertainment will be highlighted. The project will attempt to evoke the atmosphere of Teiga's "ars una".
The second main goal will be to showcase live contacts with the European avant-garde through magazines that became an important international medium for the transmission of information. As the concept of the exhibition suggests, the intention is to approach it intermedially to better present the poetics of Devětsil: it will include architectural and scenographic models, film projections, sound recordings, digitization of magazines, and photographic reproductions. Thus, the priority should not be "classical" visual art (the represented works focus on selected key pieces, especially on combined techniques such as collage, photomontage, etc.) and its presentation in a museum-type exhibition, but rather a lively presentation of the visuality preferred by Devětsil. This will correspond to the catalog, which will offer not only synthetic studies from architecture (Jakub Potůček) and introduce magazines, typography, and the genesis of Devětsil (Jindřich Toman), also in Brno (Petr Ingerle), theater and scenography (Jitka Ciampi Matulová), film (Lucie Česálková), photography (Karel Císař), and fine arts (Alena Pomajzlová). The exhibition and catalog should also serve, not least, as a remembrance of František Šmejkal, who passed away thirty years ago.
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