BORDERLINE
6. 11. 2021 - 16. 1.2022
Exhibition opening: 5.11. 2021 at 6 p.m
White Unicorn Galleryin Klatovy
This exhibition is madeup of artists moving on the borderlines of various creative areas and currentsof opinion. These artists move in between free and applied art, poetry, drawingor collage, film and painting, the natural sciences, mathematics, geometry andstructure, art history theory and artistic expression. Their work is situatedbetween astrophysics and the image, the word and sign, assemblage, object andinstallation, sculpture and architecture, sound and visual record, the mobile,variable and stable...
The exhibition bringstogether several generations of artists and attempts to come closer to howtheir expressions may have changed, as well as how different methods ofexpression developed and intersected. The exhibition begins with the work of severalartists from the period before and after the First World War, including VojtěchPreissig and Karel Teige. An important part of the exhibition is formed byartists who became active after the Second World War. For these artists, theintertwining of various areas is particularly important. These artists includeZdeněk Sýkora, Vladislav Mirvald, Ladislav Novák, Jiří Kolář, Běla Kolářová,Milan Grygar, Radek Kratina, Dalibor Chatrný and Olga Karlíková. Each of theseartists moves on the borderlines of different spheres.
The next wave of artists is represented by thosewho became active at the end of the sixties or in the unfavorable period of theso-called “normalization”. These artists
include Adéla Matasová,Milan Maur, Inge Kosková, Pavel Rudolf, Jiří Valoch and Karel Adamus. Theexhibition also includes artists of the generation following normalization suchas Vladimír Merta, František Kowolowski, Petr Písařík, Tomáš Vaněk, Jan Šerých,Tomáš Džadoň, Ladislav Jezbera, DanielVlček, Jakub Roztočil and Petr Krátký.
Of course theexhibition’s selection of artists is not exhaustive. However, we tried torepresent different creative types moving in between various areas.
Exhibiting Artists: Vojtěch Preissig, Karel Teige, Jiří Kolář, Ladislav Novák, Běla Kolářová,Dalibor Chatrný, Zdeněk Sýkora, Vladislav Mirvald, Hugo Demartini, RadekKratina, Olga Karlíková, Milan Grygar, Adéla Matasová, Inge Kosková, MilanMaur, Jiří Valoch, Karel Adamus, Pavel Rudolf, Vladimír Merta, František
Kowolowski, Petr Písařík, Tomáš Vaněk, JanŠerých, Ladislav Jezbera, Daniel Vlček, Tomáš Džadoň, Jakub Roztočil, PetrKrátký
Exhibition curator:Jiří Machalický
Borderline| Klatovy - Klenová Gallery(gkk.cz)
