<span>Exhibition ANCHORS OF MAY in Brno</span>
Czech department stores 1965–1975
18/9/2012 - 7/10/2012
4AM / Architecture Gallery / Starobrněnská 18, Brno
open Tue-Sun 14-19 h
The exhibition ANCHORS OF MAY / Czech Department Stores 1965-1975 is heading to the Brno Architecture Gallery three months after its last reprise in Olomouc. Under the care of the 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media, it will showcase fifteen of the most significant Czech department stores from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the Prague stores that gave the exhibition its name, the presented stores will include regional priorities from Pardubice, Olomouc, or Plzeň, as well as cooperative and specialized department stores. The exhibition will also feature a brief overview of Slovak department stores and unrealized designs by Alena Šrámková.
The exhibition will include two projections - the first will present a comic by Vladimír 518 dedicated to the department store Máj, and the second will showcase archival drawing documentation and photographs that were not included in the exhibition banners or in the accompanying publication. The graphic design of the exhibition, created by Ondřej Brom and Michal Sloboda, playfully deconstructs the era's role of department stores through small comic scenes.
A thematic accompanying program will also complement the exhibition. The opening of the exhibition on Tuesday, September 18 will be immediately followed by a guided tour led by the exhibition's author, Petr Klíma. On Tuesday, October 2, at 6 PM, there will be a debate featuring architectural historian Rostislav Švácha with Růžena Žertová and Miroslav Masák. On Thursday, October 4, Slovak architect and theorist Mária Topolčanská will give a lecture on the fight for the preservation of the Bratislava PRIOR.
One of the goals of the project ANCHORS OF MAY / Czech Department Stores 1965-1975, which also includes the aforementioned homonymous book, is to demonstrate the palette of approaches to solving the typological task of department stores in former Czechoslovakia. Selected objects can characterize the trends of contemporary architecture and their reflection and development in domestic conditions. An important aspect of the project is also the investigation of today's approach to the original architectural values of the 1960s and 1970s. This activity should contribute, among other things, to the continuation of the social debate on the meaning of the protection and respect for original buildings as well as the significance and possibilities of their transformations.
Vernissage: 18/9/2012 at 6 PM
Exhibition author: Petr Klíma
Organizer: 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media
19.00 Petr Klíma / guided tour of the exhibition
Tuesday 2/10/2012
18.00 debate with architectural historian Rostislav Švácha with Růžena Žertová and Miroslav Masák
Thursday 4/10/2012
20.00 Mária Topolčanská / Bratislava PRIOR live and in public / lecture
A lecture and screening will present the mysterious reality of the post-socialist city and the attempts of independent groups of architects, art historians, and civic activists to save the architectural species 'department store' which flourished in the 1960s throughout Czechoslovakia, using the example of the unique Bratislava department store (now Tesco), the dilapidated Hotel Kyjev, and the public space of Kamenné náměstí shaped by them (arch. I. Matušík, 1960-73).
4AM / Architecture Gallery / Starobrněnská 18, Brno
open Tue-Sun 14-19 h
The exhibition ANCHORS OF MAY / Czech Department Stores 1965-1975 is heading to the Brno Architecture Gallery three months after its last reprise in Olomouc. Under the care of the 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media, it will showcase fifteen of the most significant Czech department stores from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to the Prague stores that gave the exhibition its name, the presented stores will include regional priorities from Pardubice, Olomouc, or Plzeň, as well as cooperative and specialized department stores. The exhibition will also feature a brief overview of Slovak department stores and unrealized designs by Alena Šrámková.
The exhibition will include two projections - the first will present a comic by Vladimír 518 dedicated to the department store Máj, and the second will showcase archival drawing documentation and photographs that were not included in the exhibition banners or in the accompanying publication. The graphic design of the exhibition, created by Ondřej Brom and Michal Sloboda, playfully deconstructs the era's role of department stores through small comic scenes.
A thematic accompanying program will also complement the exhibition. The opening of the exhibition on Tuesday, September 18 will be immediately followed by a guided tour led by the exhibition's author, Petr Klíma. On Tuesday, October 2, at 6 PM, there will be a debate featuring architectural historian Rostislav Švácha with Růžena Žertová and Miroslav Masák. On Thursday, October 4, Slovak architect and theorist Mária Topolčanská will give a lecture on the fight for the preservation of the Bratislava PRIOR.
One of the goals of the project ANCHORS OF MAY / Czech Department Stores 1965-1975, which also includes the aforementioned homonymous book, is to demonstrate the palette of approaches to solving the typological task of department stores in former Czechoslovakia. Selected objects can characterize the trends of contemporary architecture and their reflection and development in domestic conditions. An important aspect of the project is also the investigation of today's approach to the original architectural values of the 1960s and 1970s. This activity should contribute, among other things, to the continuation of the social debate on the meaning of the protection and respect for original buildings as well as the significance and possibilities of their transformations.
Vernissage: 18/9/2012 at 6 PM
Exhibition author: Petr Klíma
Organizer: 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media
Accompanying Program
Tuesday 18/9/201219.00 Petr Klíma / guided tour of the exhibition
Tuesday 2/10/2012
18.00 debate with architectural historian Rostislav Švácha with Růžena Žertová and Miroslav Masák
Thursday 4/10/2012
20.00 Mária Topolčanská / Bratislava PRIOR live and in public / lecture
A lecture and screening will present the mysterious reality of the post-socialist city and the attempts of independent groups of architects, art historians, and civic activists to save the architectural species 'department store' which flourished in the 1960s throughout Czechoslovakia, using the example of the unique Bratislava department store (now Tesco), the dilapidated Hotel Kyjev, and the public space of Kamenné náměstí shaped by them (arch. I. Matušík, 1960-73).
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