2024-06-26 12:34:21
A swimming pool has briefly returned to the constructing of the Regional Gallery in Liberec, the place the spa was initially positioned. This time, nevertheless, it’s an paintings by Milan Houser, who’s exhibiting within the gallery. He used the form of the pool to remind us of what was right here, explains the director of the establishment and curator of the present, Filip Suchomel.
Within the former pool corridor, there’s now a number of centimeters of water on 200 sq. meters. On the skin, nevertheless, the realm with the predominant yellow coloration appears to be like extra like a mosaic ground or the floor of an inhospitable planet. “Houser poured coloured pigments into it, metallic ones that someway work,” explains Suchomel.
In response to him, the pool is a simulation of what occurs throughout Houser’s work. The fifty-two-year-old artist creates works utilizing acrylics, luminescent pigments and magnetized particles.
“He’s such an instance of creative analysis, as a result of he even invented his personal slow-drying varnish for the works he makes with varnish and resins. He can pour totally different colours into it, which then change coloration and create the ultimate work,” Suchomel describes.
In response to Suchomel, the time required to create one work demonstrates how demanding work with lacquer is. “Fairly often it takes two to 3 years to create, and it’s also very costly to supply. For instance, one giant portray is ten centimeters thick and accommodates about 300 liters of paint,” the gallery director illustrates.
Different works by Houser could be seen in the principle exhibition halls. The present referred to as Attraction, which can final in Liberec till September 15, presents spectacular compositions evoking the surfaces of unknown cosmic our bodies.
It consists of Houser’s newest work, but additionally his lacquer work and creative experiments with magnetism.
“Houser is likely one of the most outstanding figures of the up to date Czech artwork scene. His works usually resemble some type of unknown scientific message, mysterious diagrams made with refined laboratory tools, and really underline Houser’s long-term curiosity in physics, chemistry or cosmology,” provides the curator of the exhibition.
In Liberec, Houser is thought particularly for the enormous ball that has been adorning the house on the Zlatý lev resort for 20 years. 16 years in the past, a mysterious glass dice with withered spruce branches was erected on the nook of the city corridor.
Cell gallery
Houser’s exhibition was opened by the Regional Gallery in Liberec as a part of a ten-day pageant commemorating the tenth anniversary of its work within the constructing of the previous spa.
Director Suchomel calls the exhibition, which ends this Sunday, June 23, a particular present for Liberec. It’s a futuristic venture referred to as Designblok Cosmos: Intergalactic fantastic thing about Czech design. “Which is a particular exhibition of ten spectacular displays of Czech up to date glass in such a really galactic exhibition that was exhibited final yr at Designblok. Then, in April of this yr, it represented the Czech Republic very efficiently on the Milan truthful. And from right here it’s going to journey overseas once more, in order that’s only a stopover,” explains the gallery director.
The Designblok Cosmos cell gallery can solely be visited on Saturdays and Sundays. | Picture: CTK
Ten unique glass works are housed in a cell gallery briefly positioned within the backyard. It appears to be like like a field lined with a silver reflective coat, however after coming into it, one has the sensation of being in an infinite house. “As a result of we’re between the mirrors, we are able to see the works from all sides, from above, from the entrance and from the again, and I believe that that is actually spectacular for the guests. The kids will definitely prefer it too,” says Suchomel.
The sensation of infinity within the inside is created by 170 mirrors. The set up was created by Jan Plecháč, inside there are works by Jakub Berdych, Lucie Koldová, Václav Mlynář, Lukáš Novák, Jiří Pelcl, Jan Plecháč, Rony Plesl, Tadeáš Podracký, Maxim Velčovský and the Dechem studio.
Two different new exhibitions are a part of the ten-day pageant. The affect of trade and man on nature is mirrored within the work of sculptor Dagmar Šubrtová, whose work can be on show till October 13. The dominant component of her works, paying homage to heaps, timber rising from barrels or greenhouses, is iron. “In any case, we must always have a look at it as a complete panorama that speaks of post-industrial points,” says the curator of this exhibition, Tereza Záchová.
Šubrtová was born in Duchcov in northern Bohemia, and has been residing and creating in Kladno for a very long time. Her work is related with the post-industrial character of the panorama, the place coal was mined or continues to be mined. As a curator between 2002 and 2010, she led the Mayrau Gallery within the Mining Museum within the former Mayrau underground mine close to Kladno.
Dagmar Šubrtová at an exhibition of her works within the Liberec gallery. | Picture: CTK
The gallery additionally devoted one exhibition to a neighborhood phenomenon: the Ještěd mountain. The exhibition entitled Horizont hory: Krajina pod Ještědem exhibits it within the work of native artists. It consists of works from the earliest graphic artists of the nineteenth century to the current day. It will likely be on show till September 29.
The regional gallery in Liberec, based in 1953, has a set of roughly 23,000 work, graphics, drawings, sculptures and different objects. It was based mostly within the Liebieg Palace for 50 years, and ten years in the past, by shifting to town spa renovated for 360 million crowns, it gained twice the dimensions of the exhibition house, a depository, and on the similar time higher services for workers and guests.
Because of the transfer, attendance elevated considerably. Whereas within the Liebieg Palace the gallery welcomed a most of 18,000 individuals a yr, within the former spa, excluding the covid years, it now has two to 3 occasions as many. 2017 was a document yr with greater than 50,000 guests.