What to do with leftover Mashed Potatoes? Make Potato Pancakes! You can make Savory Potato Pancakes with a fresh batch of Mashed Potatoes, but they are also a great way to use leftovers from the day before. If you make your Mashed Potatoes with the skins, no worries, just keep them in the mix. The [...]
Jiří Matějů At City Gallery Prague
Painter Jiří Matějů (b. 1960) strikes a distinct solitary figure on the Czech art scene. At first sight, Jiří Matějů´s work may seem difficult to bracket within any other style than that of Op Art-oriented Geometric Abstraction. Where, however, should one seek a clue to the reading of Jiří Matějů´s visual world? It can be [...]
Kulajda Mushroom Soup
The Czechs are wild about mushrooms. From a very early age, Czechs learn the difference between the edible and the poisonous, the good and the bad, and how to cook them. From July through November, you can find Czechs spending their free time searching the landscape for these gems. One of the ways to enjoy [...]
Photography As Photography At Skolska 28
This exhibition held at Gallery Skolska 28 and in the project space Grey Room presents a selection from the work of three distinguished figures of the generation of Czech photographers whose artwork was shaped during the 80s. The frame of reference used by the curator, Tomas Pospech, is the term of Visualism, which was coined [...]
PAVLA SCERANKOVÁ At City Gallery
This newproject fromPavla Sceranková thematizes the human dream as an experience which can fairly often become irrepressible and imposing. Confronted with these qualities, the artist decided to try and find themeaning of the dream´smessage, and to reconstruct itwith the aid of projection and an interactive object. The show, entitled A Message from the Neocortex, enables [...]
Andrew Lampert Screening / Performance At Skolska 28
Born in the mid-70s in the Midwest, Andrew Lampert primarily produces films, videos and live performances. Over the last decade his works have been widely exhibited at festivals such as the NY Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion, in cinemas like BFI, Light Industry, in the galleries Mitchell Algus Gallery, NYC [...]
FUNDAMENTY & SEDIMENTY At The Municipal Library
The first group exhibition of 2011, Fundaments and Sediments will have as its reference key an emphasis on primal two- and three dimensional forms, such as square, oblong, line, cube, sphere, etc., and their transformations into metaphoric or objectual projections: sphere = head; line = horizon; oblong = door, etc. Each of the fundamentals thus [...]
U dUbU tU bUdU At Skolska 28
The exhibition U dUbU tU bUdU reflects the current relationship between poetry and the visual arts. The curators draw a connection between two attitudes evident in the artistic scrutiny of written language as a medium: visual poetry and conceptual art. Poetry has come close to the conceptual tendencies of visual art during the process of [...]
Hannes Hoelzl – W-O-W
In script we trust, because it’s engraved in stone, metal, concrete, printed in black on white. But what about a writing that is volatile, that’s gone in the moment we have perceived it? A writing as evanescent as sound? How much credit would we attribute to that? A writing that appears just intense enough to [...]
VÁCLAV BOŠTÍK At The Municipal Library
This exhibition of Václav Boštík (1913 – 2005) is the artist´s first large-scale retrospective, grounded on an extensive study of his work and posthumous papers. Boštík is the pre-eminent representative of Czech painting in the second half of the 20th century. From the second half of the 1930s, his output went through a series of [...]
