Valoch & Valoch / Archeology And Conceptual Art
Moravská galerie v Brně
30.09.2022 - 27.08.2023
Curators: Jana Pisarikova, Ondrej Chrobak, Petr Ingerle, Miroslav Maixner
The exhibition on the story of Father Karel Valoch and his son Jiří Valoch examines the relationship between archeology and conceptual art.
The finding of a fraction of the jaw of Neanderthal during the archaeological survey of the Kůlna cave in the Moravian Karst was one of the most important events of post -war archeology on a world scale. Karel Valoch and his son Jiří participated in this discovery. While Karel Valoch (1920-2013), the Archaeologist of the Brno Institute of Anthropos, has been conducting a survey of this locality since 1961, student Jiří Valoch (1947) spent several summer holidays in a row as a temporary worker. Jiří Valoch preferred art over archeology and has become a visible protagonist of experimental poetry, a theorist of the new art and a curator of a number of key exhibitions, especially in the Brno House of Arts. Archeology and interest in prehistoric cultures, however, have, as evidenced by period studies of American curator Lucy R. Lippard, many points of intervention with period artistic practice not only within one Brno family. In art, for example, various forms of rituals that took place in nature, often in places with prehistoric past or directly in caves, were carried out. Likewise, extensive artistic interventions in the landscape were realized, whose visual appearance could be reminiscent of megalithic buildings or archaeological sites. The current exhibition presents these overlaps of archeology and conceptual art, as they have grinded since the mid -sixties to the life of Charles and Jiří Valoch.
Miloš Šejn: Cave and Man, 1974–2022, three–channel video
Exhibiting authors: Karel Adamus, Imre Bak, Peter Bartos, Juraj Bartusz, Pavel Büchler, Vladimir Drápal, Stano Filko, Daniel Fischer, Hamish Fulton, Miloslav Sonny Halas, Vladimir Havlik, Pavel Holous, Radek Horacek, Dalibor Chatrny, Eva Kmentova, Milan Knížák, J.H.Kocman, Jen Kratochvil, Marie Kratochvílová, Július Koller, Petr Kvíčala, Milos Laky, Otis Laubert, Richard Long, Marian Mudroch, Milan Maur, Rune Mields, Ladislav Novák, Meret Oppenheim, Marian Palla Tomáš Ruller, Zorka Ságlová, Rudolf Sikora, Zdeněk Sklenář, Jan Steklík, Ladislav Snopko, Miloš Šejn, Petr Štembera, Margita Tittlova Ylovsky, Jiri Valoch, Karel Valoch, Ralf Winkler, A. R. Penck, Jan Wojnarski, Jan Zavarský.
The exhibition includes artifacts and documentation associated with archaeological research in the Kůlna Cave in the Moravian Karst, which was carried out by the Institute of Anthropos led by Karel Valoch in 1961 - 1973.
The exhibition includes artifacts and documentation associated with archaeological research in the Kůlna cave in the Moravian Karst, which was carried out by the Anthropos Institute under the leadership of Karel Valoch in 1961-1973.
Professional cooperation with the Moravian Regional Museum:
M.Sc. Martina Galetová Ph.D., doc. Petr Neruda Ph.D., doc. PhDr. Martin Oliva Mgr. Martina Roblíčková
The project is implemented with the financial support of the statutory city of Brno.
The exhibition and publication are the output of the Institutional Support for Long-Term Conceptual Development of Research Organization (DKRVO), provided by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Miloš Šejn: Delimitation Space By Fire, 1982
Valoch & Valoch / Archeology And Conceptual Art