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ZATVÁŘÍ / BEHINDFACE
8. 5. - 22. 6. 2025 | ATELIÉR JOSEFA SUDKA, Praha
curator: Petr Vaňous
Eye of the fly, 1959
Zebín hill and Sun, 1983
With his multilayered work, conceptual artist Miloš Šejn (1947) enters the world of phenomena in order to communicate the core and contours of one's own human presence in a new and different way. And these are not only phenomena associated with a complex perception of place and time in its most general, essential levels. Often, it is also an exploration of hidden, obscured, or time-layered case relationships that are related to human memory, personal past, facts, and mémoire involontaire. One such particular phenomenon is the family memory of the sculptor Hana Wichterlová, who used to have a studio in Újezd, not far from Josef Sudek's studio, and whom Miloš Šejn knew personally as a child. The layout of the exhibition for Josef Sudek's Studio is an intersection of place, time, memory, and media traces (photographs, videos, drawings). Sudek's photograph of Wichterlová's sculpture, entitled Black Head, plays a significant role here. Her closed eyes are the switch of events, the main referent of which is the inner sight. The one that connects the hiddenness of the thought with the face of the seen. Whether it is a human face or a face found as a metaphor for a place. It is a theme that is also reflected in the title of the exhibition BEHINDFACE. The Czech neologism precisely affects the territory in which any fleeting experience turns into a timeless, permanent essence. An essence that does not disappear by being forgotten, because once formulated, it continues in its existence forever.
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8. 5. - 22. 6. 2025 | ATELIÉR JOSEFA SUDKA, Praha
curator: Petr Vaňous
Eye of the fly, 1959
Zebín hill and Sun, 1983With his multilayered work, conceptual artist Miloš Šejn (1947) enters the world of phenomena in order to communicate the core and contours of one's own human presence in a new and different way. And these are not only phenomena associated with a complex perception of place and time in its most general, essential levels. Often, it is also an exploration of hidden, obscured, or time-layered case relationships that are related to human memory, personal past, facts, and mémoire involontaire. One such particular phenomenon is the family memory of the sculptor Hana Wichterlová, who used to have a studio in Újezd, not far from Josef Sudek's studio, and whom Miloš Šejn knew personally as a child. The layout of the exhibition for Josef Sudek's Studio is an intersection of place, time, memory, and media traces (photographs, videos, drawings). Sudek's photograph of Wichterlová's sculpture, entitled Black Head, plays a significant role here. Her closed eyes are the switch of events, the main referent of which is the inner sight. The one that connects the hiddenness of the thought with the face of the seen. Whether it is a human face or a face found as a metaphor for a place. It is a theme that is also reflected in the title of the exhibition BEHINDFACE. The Czech neologism precisely affects the territory in which any fleeting experience turns into a timeless, permanent essence. An essence that does not disappear by being forgotten, because once formulated, it continues in its existence forever.
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Special
INTERLUDE
1. 6. - 31. 8. 2025 | Kutná Hora - intervention in public space
curator: Petr Vaňous
1. 6. - 31. 8. 2025 | Kutná Hora - intervention in public space
curator: Petr Vaňous