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Start: 27. 6. 2023, 18:00
Josef Moucha, Václav Šafka, Viktorie Vítů
The work of the photographer Jiří Toman from Pardubice is extensive and varied, and this time the Fotograf Gallery will present an intimate selection inspired by a rather unreflected set of photographs of the foaming Elbe, ice crystals and snowdrifts taken in the vicinity of the weir near Počáply. Original working enlargements will be complemented by digital reprints from Toman’s negatives and contemporary entries by Šarka Zahálková, who was inspired by both Toman’s photographs and his involvement in animated film.
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Dear visitors of Fotograf Gallery,
Our gallery will be closed during the weeks of July 3-7 and July 31-August 4.
Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you during our standard opening hours during the other weeks.
Yours team Fotograf
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The work of the photographer Jiří Toman from Pardubice is extensive and varied, and this time the Fotograf Gallery will present an intimate selection inspired by a rather unreflected set of photographs of the foaming Elbe, ice crystals and snowdrifts taken in the vicinity of the weir near Počáply. Original working enlargements will be complemented by digital reprints from Toman’s negatives and contemporary entries by Šarka Zahálková, who was inspired by both Toman’s photographs and his involvement in animated film.
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Pay attention and watch closely. Revice and reflect. Listen to others and to yourself. Confront despair.
The final works exhibited in the Gallery Fotograf combine a sensitivity to their surroundings with an awareness of their own situation. Students at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague look around them and explore the contexts in which they find themselves. While sometimes inviting us into seemingly private settings and intimate situations, they end up touching on generational and more general themes and reflecting on societal and planet-wide affairs.
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The casting from a mould gains a new shape that for a long time existed only as a possibility, it is similar to when a newly planted tree grows from a hole which forms and deforms its roots. Layers of paint, as well as lace curtains, prevent us in seeing that which would like to force its way to the surface. That “something” which remains partially hidden, is one of the motives of works by both artists connected with the Memory and Desire, Stirring exhibition.
As part of the exhibition Heart Seas, Fotograf Gallery is organizing a participatory workshop with performative elements under the guidance of artist Miroslava Večeřová. Explore your own inner and outer shores with a focus on imaginary creatures in the far reaches of the deep!
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The group exhibition Released Atoms follows the theme of making the invisible visible. While the radiographs –photographs created using artificially produced gamma rays – penetrate the inside of X-rayed objects and reveal their internal structure, selected works by contemporary artists depict the hopes placed in the peaceful use of energy and the fears associated with it. Alongside the original documentation of historical radiograms and popular and avant-garde books, the exhibition presents works that explore spectacular modernist projects and give access to the environments of atomic reactors and isolated sites affected by nuclear disaster.
Fotograf Gallery is supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture and during the year 2021 by a grant from the City of Prague amounting to 630 000 CZK.
