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Mummies in Lace Porcelain Sculptures and Jewellery by Tereza Eisnerová

Eisner is drawn to porcelain for its delicate and refined nature, its smooth surface and its solid yet fragile physical characteristics. Over time, her work with this medium has evolved an entirely original style that distinctly pushes the limits of the material’s usual possibilities. Although her art includes life-sized figures and large-scale sculptures and reliefs, when working with porcelain she is focused on small or even miniature sculptures in which she can explore the material’s full potential. Her virtuoso work with the miniature format and her highly expressive themes of mummies and other macabre scenes make her a truly one-of-a-kind phenomenon on the Czech sculpture scene.

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Jana Kasalová – By Heart

Jana Kasalová reads maps like some people read literature. For her, maps are both a schematic representation and a visible record of various layers of memory in the cultural landscape. She sees them as conventional attempts at producing an objective representation of the space in which we live, including its surface features, its relief and border lines, and also as evidence of spiritual, societal and historical contexts and events, which inspire her to engage in her own measuring and recording of space. She now exhibits the results of this subjective cartography – her geoanatomical “portraits” or states and territories – at GASK’s Experimental Space.

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Tomáš Pilař – The Harvest of a Quiet Eye

Painter and draughtsman Tomáš Pilař (born 1979) lives and works in the pleasant seclusion of his family home and garden in the village of Podlažice near Chrast in east Bohemia, where he devotes himself undisturbed to thinking and making art. With Pilař, these two activities are inextricably linked: each of his paintings can be described as the unique materialisation of an explorative thought process. This makes it all the more remarkable that his visual poetics are characterised above all by immediacy, natural ease and tactile spontaneity. It is precisely these qualities that lead us to the essence of Pilař’s expression.

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New permanent exhibition – Through the Labyrinth

On Saturday 29 June 2024, the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region opened a new permanent exhibition of works from its collection. The exhibition’s non-historical approach follows on its successful predecessor, States of Mind / Beyond the Image, which in 2015 won the prestigious national Gloria Musaealis award. The new exhibition, conceived as an invitation to wander Through the Labyrinth, was loosely inspired by the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces by the American ethnologist and religious scholar Joseph Campbell (1904–1987), whose work explored the shared foundations of myths, fables and religious teachings.

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Entrée

Entrée is a representative exhibition welcoming visitors to the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region through (what else?) works of art. Entrée consists of a selection of thirteen monumental sculptural objects by twelve leading artists whose work was acquired for the GASK collections primarily over the past several years or the acquisition of which the gallery is currently considering. Entrée is a survey of contemporary art by established artists as well as by representatives of the youngest generation.

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Open-air GASK

Project Open-air GASK is a presentation of sculptures and installations by artists represented in the permanent exhibitions States of Mind / Beyond the Image and Avenue of Saints or whose works are featured in current or upcoming exhibitions.

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