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Galerie Muzea Krkonoš, Vrchlabí
17.11.2023 - 28.04.2024
curator: Roman Koucký
The mysterious name Krkonoše is older than the script, which we started using in our country only in the 9th century with the advent of Christianity. The first record is seven hundred years older. In the 2nd cent. the name Korkontoi was used by the Greek geographer Klaudios Ptolemaios in the geographical work Europae tabula quarta. He describes the landscapes and the population beyond the borders of the Roman Empire, as described to him by people who penetrated the barbarian regions for trade or in the Roman military service. Chapter XI deals with the Giant Mountains. Germaniae Magnae situs. That he is really talking about our mountains is evident from a number of contexts, above all he mentions the unmistakable name of the river Albis. In Greek, the Korkontoi (Latin Corconti) were, according to Ptolemy, tribes near Monte Asciburgius, which is Snow White. It is clear that these people were named after the specifics of the mountain range, but their identity is not entirely clear. Ptolemy included them among the Germans, because they inhabited the territory of Great Germania, similarly to the Marcomani and the Quadians mentioned here. It is noteworthy that Korkontoi names together with the Lugi Buri (Lusatians?) as far as the headwaters of the Vistula, on the upper course of which lies the important site of the pagan cult of Kraków. To the east of the Elbe lived the Silingi, probably the Silesians, in their neighborhood the Suebi. Their name is usually interpreted as Svebov, but for more than a thousand years, tribes of Polabian Serbs, who should be of Slavic origin, have resided here.
The name Krkonoše itself is probably already pre-Celtic, adopted by the local population for centuries. In the early modern period, there is a resurgence of interest in the geographical sciences. In the so-called Klaudian map from 1518, a mountain "clearing" bearing the name Krkonoss is marked in the border forest surrounding the Bohemian Basin. Bohuslav Balbín mentions this name in 1679 in the Latin-written work Miscellanea historica regni Bohemia*e as *Kerkonossioi horoi, which he considers derived from the Greek language. He may have known the work of Ptolemy, but more likely he read Greek myths. The compound word Kork-konti clearly speaks of the land bearing the name of the demon Krok, Krko-noss being his seat. Originally, therefore, the mountain range was not named Krakonoši, but on the contrary, much earlier, to the mythical Krakoness mountain range.
https://www.e-vsudybyl.cz/archiv/poledni-kamen-tajemny-strazce-hory-1-4016/
Radek Míka
https://www.krnap.cz/akce/milos-sejn-adriena-simotova/
Adriena Šimotová at work in the Franciscan Monastery in Hostinné in the Giant Mountains, 1984
Miloš Šejn interacting with the Luční hora landscape in the Giant Mountains, 1987-1988
Miloš Šejn: Bílá skála in the Giant Mountains, 1988, pigments on paper, 150 x 400 cm
Adriena Šimotová
Well, I think that Adriena has just reached the period when she realizes almost everything she wants to realize, she can use her artistic and human experiences to the fullest, she is able to complete her development so far and go further, maybe even higher. Perhaps nothing of her earlier work had an impact on me like these Papers, so mature, fully, independently, with all the riskiness of course, with all the sophistication naturally, perhaps I can only say: so Czech. Czech, even with that baroqueness, with a frequent tinge of anxiety and soulful physicality, especially evident in women, and with that oscillation between drawing, graphic arts and sculpture, disciplines which today probably surpass painting in terms of their best results in our country. Never before had Adriena done anything greater than now, rising above the chamber form without giving up the intimacy that was so characteristic of her. Intimacy breathes from every spatial layer of these things mixed with a special eroticism, inviting us to touch them, examine them gently and carefully and reveal what is "behind" there.
who appeared to me for a moment
towards the end of the road…
2018
Milos Sejn: Snow Calligraphy, The Giant Mountains, 1962, silver bromine photograph