Century of Relativity. 20 th Century Fine Arts Permanent Exhibition. Olomouc Museum of Art

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1 Century of Relativity 20 th Century Fine Arts Permanent Exhibition Olomouc Museum of Art

2 Century of Relativity 20 th Century Fine Arts Permanent Exposition as from November 14, 2013 / Museum of modern Art Attic ( ), Picture Gallery ( ) The presentation portrays the best of our rich collection of 20 th century art. This is, in brief, the basic aim of the new permanent exposition located on two floors of the Museum of modern Art. One exhibition hall would not suffice for a permanent exposition since the Museum s collections include a broad spectrum of works often contradicting in ideas and styles of which we can identify as important, or even without exaggeration, crucial not only for Czech modern and contemporary art. The Attic exhibition hall has been assigned for the 1 st half of the 20 th century. We namely emphasize the paintings and sculptures which represent the basic streams in Czech modern art of this period. The introductory part uses selected works to document the echoes of impressionism (A. Hudeček, V. Radimský, A. Slavíček), and, as a contrast, we exhibit the representatives of the symbolist and decadent tendencies of the early 20 th century here (F. Schön, J. Preisler). The exposition is however, based on a thorough and rich presentation of modern trends seen from expressionism (E. Filla, O. Nejedlý), cubism (E. Filla, O. Gutfreund, B. Kubišta, A. Procházka), cubo-expressionism (H. M. Davringhausen, O. Gutfreund) up to civilism (J. Čapek) or, on the contrary, the exotism of the 1920s (A. Hoffmeister, J. Hněvkovský) without forgetting abstraction (F. Foltýn, A. Diviš, H. Wichterlová) and surrealism from the turn of 1920s and 1930s (V. Makovský, F. Muzika, Z. Sklenář, Toyen). The final chapter is then formed by works of Group 42 (F. Gross, F. Hudeček, K. Lhoták, J. Smetana) and by works reflecting the war apocalypse (J. Liesler, V. Hejna, R. Michalik). We also paid special attention to modern landscape-painting whose most prominent works describe (although with a differ ent language) the atmosphere of the time of their origin as well (O. Coubine, O. Kerhart, J. Šíma, V. Špála).

One exhibition hall would not suffice for a permanent exposition since the Museum s collections include a broad spectrum of works often contradicting in ideas and styles of which we can identify as

3 The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Picture Gallery has an ambition to give a worthy overview of the most important artistic tendencies after the end of WWII up to the end of the 20 th century. The exposition is introduced with examples of work from distinguished solitaires of the 1950s (V. Fuka, V. Nováková, J. Sobotka) or authors who resumed the ideas of the pre-war avant-garde (J. Istler). We continue with post-war abstraction, works connected with various forms of lyrical and structural abstraction (J. Kotík, M. Medek, L. Padrtová, R. Piesen, A. Veselý). Next, examples of varied forms of lettrism (J. Kolář, S. Kovařík, E. Ovčáček) and neo-constructivism (H. Demartini, K. Malich, L. Přibyl, Z. Sýkora) dominate among many antagonistic tendencies of the 1960s which contrast with paintings and sculptures of the so called new figuration (V. Janoušková, V. Janoušek, E. Kmentová, K. Válová), namely Czech grotesque (K. Nepraš) and later existential figuration of the 1970s and 1980s (V. Novák, M. Rittstein). The exposition concludes with conceptual and post-modern manifestations (J. David, M. Gabriel, F. Skála) whose influences had a clear impact on art in the last decade (T. Císařovský, D. Černý, J. Surůvka). The Picture Gallery however, does not house Czech art only; we also strive to include the Czech collection into a broader context in relation to our acquisition efforts related to the Olomouc Central European Forum Project. Therefore, there are examples of exile authors (J. Knap, M. Kunc, O. Slavík, I. Theimer) and prominent Polish (M. Abakanowicz, A. Lenica, T. Kantor, K. Mikulski, W. Pawlak, R. Winiarski), Hungarian (I. Bak, L. Fehér, G. Jovánovicz, D. Mauer, I. Nádler, S. Pinczehelyi, E. Tot), and Slovak authors as well (M. Bočkay, M. Dobeš, O. Laubert, J. Meliš, L. Teren, M. Urbásek, J. Želibská). Authors of Exposition Štěpánka Bieleszová (Attic), Ladislav Daněk (Picture Gallery) Texts Štěpánka Bieleszová, Ladislav Daněk Expert Collaboration Barbora Kundračíková Translations Hana Havlíčková, Proofreading Michael Stuart Esson Graphic Design Beata Rakowská, Petr Šmalec Architectural Design Marek Novák, Michal Soukup Preparation of Exhibits Dalibor Sedlák, Veronika Wanková Instalation Vlastimil Sedláček, Filip Šindelář Public Relations Petr Bielesz Educational Programmes David Hrbek, Michaela Johnová Čapková partners media partners

Sobotka) or authors who resumed the ideas of the pre-war avant-garde (J. Istler). We continue with post-war abstraction, works connected with various forms of lyrical and structural abstraction (J.

4 Exotics and Fan 1920s Václav Špála ( ) Landscape near Červená nad Vltavou 1927 Bedřich Stefan ( ) Sitting Negro / (1928) Adolf Hoffmeister Jaroslav Hněvkovs Bedřich Stefan Modern Landscape I 1910s 1940s Otakar Nejedlý, Miloš Jiránek Jindřich Prucha, Václav Špála Otakar Kubín, Rudolf Kremlička Oldřich Kerhart, Bohumil Kafka Václav Radims Antonín Slavíč Josef Wagner Impressionist Inf after 1900 Václav Radimský ( ) On the Pond / ( ) Attic

Nejedlý, Miloš Jiránek Jindřich Prucha, Václav Špála Otakar Kubín, Rudolf Kremlička Oldřich Kerhart, Bohumil Kafka

5 Josef Šíma Martin Salcman Josef Čapek Modern Landscape II 1920s 1930s tasy ký Martin Salcman ( ) Landscape near Nebřeziny 1937 entrace ký ek luences Jan Preisler ( ) Composition for a picture for the Prostějov National House ( ) Echoes of Traditions Emil Filla, Jan Preisler Jan Štursa, Josef Mařatka

Jan Preisler (1872 1918) Composition for a picture for the Prostějov National

6 Bohumil Kubišta ( ) Portrait of Jan Zrzavý / 1912 Antonín Procházka Emil Filla, Otto Gutfreund Expressionist Tendencies 1910s 1920s Bohumil Kubišta František Hudeček Josef Čapek, František Foltýn Heinrich Maria Davringhausen Otto Gutfreund Czech Cubism 1910s 1930s Emil Filla ( ) A Woman with a Fan / 1917 A Josef Liesler Rudolf Michalik Václav Hejna WWII Scepticism 1940s František Hudeček František Gross, Bohumír Matal Kamil Lhoták, Jan Smetana Otakar Švec, Ladislav Zívr Civilist Poetics 1940s Josef Liesler ( ) Many strange Judges / 1944

Filla (1882 1953) A Woman with a Fan / 1917 A Josef Liesler Rudolf Michalik Václav Hejna WWII Scepticism 1940s František Hudeček František

7 utonomous World of Abstraction 1920s 1930s Surrealist Tendencies 1930s 1940s František Foltýn ( ) Atonality and its Permeation / 1929 Alén Diviš, František Foltýn Josef Dumek, Hana Wichterlová Toyen ( ) Flowers of Sleep / 1931 Kamil Lhoták ( ) Two flying Balloons / 1942 František Janoušek Toyen, Zdeněk Sklenář Vincenc Makovský

Josef Dumek, Hana Wichterlová Toyen (1902 1980) Flowers of Sleep / 1931 Kamil Lhoták

8 Echoes of Surrealism, Lyrical and Gestural Abstraction / 1950s Ryszard Winiarski ( ) Surface 132 / 1973 István Nádler (*1938) Active Yellow / (1968) Vlastivědné muzeum Museum of Modern Art Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum Kazimierz Mikulski Josef Istler, Alfred Lenica Jan Kotík, Ludmila Padrtová Geometric Structures, Op Art, Kinetism 1960s 1970s Zdeněk Sýkora, Hugo Demartini, Lubomír Přibyl Vladislav Mirvald, Ryszard Winiarski Jiří Novák, Milan Dobeš Radoslav Kratina, Milan Mölzer Dalibor Chatrný, Karel Malich Regional Museum of Olomouc Regional Museum in Olomouc

Ludmila Padrtová Geometric Structures, Op Art, Kinetism 1960s 1970s Zdeněk Sýkora, Hugo Demartini, Lubomír Přibyl Vladislav Mirvald, Ryszard

9 István Nádler Jan Kubíček, Stanislav Kolíbal Juraj Bartusz, Zdeněk Sýkora Dóra Mauer, György Jovánovics Milan Bočkay, Imre Bak Neoconstructive Tendencies, Systems Art, Concretism, New Geometry and Personal Programs / 1960s 1980s Ludmila Padrtová (*1931) Blue / 1957 Věra Nováková (* 1928) Job / 1954 Vladimír Fuka Ivan Sobotka Věra Nováková Alén Diviš Zdeněk Palcr Zbyněk Sekal Tadeusz Kantor Solitaires / 1950s u entrace Structural Abstraction 1950s 1960s Jan Koblasa, Aleš Veselý Mikuláš Medek, Robert Piesen Jan Hendrych Jiří Kolář ( ) The Poem of Silence, An Objective Poem / 1962 Aleš Veselý (* 1935) Picture-Object / Script and Picture, Visual Poetry 1960s 1970s Běla Kolářová, Eduard Ovčáček Miloš Urbásek, Miroslav Šnajdr st. Slavoj Kovařík, Jiří Kolář Jan Wojnar, Endre Tot Libor Fára, Vladimír Kordoš

Solitaires / 1950s u entrace Structural Abstraction 1950s 1960s Jan Koblasa, Aleš Veselý Mikuláš Medek, Robert Piesen Jan Hendrych Jiří Kolář (1914 2002) The Poem of Silence, An Objective Poem / 1962

10 David Černý (*1967) Adam (from the Kits cycle) / 1993 Milan Knížák (*1940) Untitled / Václav Cigler, Milan Knížák Sándor Pinczehelyi, Juraj Meliš Dezider Tóth (Monogramista T.D.) Dóra Mauer, Otis Laubert Utopian Visions, Action Art, Conceptual Approaches 1960s 1980s Tomáš Císařovský, Milan Kunc David Černý, Jiří Surůvka Art of 1990s

11 Jan Knap (*1949) Untitled / (1984) Jana Želibská (1941) She / 1967 Vladimír Janoušek Jana Želibská, Alex Mlynárčik Eva Kmentová, Jiří Kolář Květa Válová, Jerzy Ryszard Zielinski Ivan Theimer, Karel Nepraš Otakar Slavík, Magdalena Abakanowicz Rudolf Fila, František Ronovský Michael Rittstein, Adriena Šimotová New Figuration, Czech Grotesque, Existential Figuration 1960s 1980s László Fehér Jan Knap, Włodzimierz Pawlak Jiří David, Laco Teren František Skála, Michal Gabriel Postmodern Approaches / 1980s Gallery Picture Gallery Jiří Surůvka (*1961) Gilbert & George (detail) / 1999

Rittstein, Adriena Šimotová New Figuration, Czech Grotesque, Existential Figuration 1960s 1980s László Fehér Jan Knap, Włodzimierz Pawlak Jiří

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