2024-09-13 22:19:25
Drawings or graphics by Jiří Načeradský, who is no longer alive, and large-format figurative paintings by contemporary Gabriela Slaninková are newly exhibited by the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové. They can be seen at its headquarters on Velky náměstí in the historic center of the city until November 3.
Both news are linked to another current exhibition called How to collect art: the story of Karel Tutsch. “Special exhibition spaces have been reserved for them, namely the Collector’s Cabinet and Gallery On the Perch II,” explains gallery spokesperson Gabriela Bučková.
Tutsch, who lived from 1941 to 2008, amassed one of the most remarkable modern art collections. The cabinet introduces gallery visitors to the beginnings of his collecting through Jiří Načeradský’s small, purpose-built graphics. These form the largest part of Tutsch’s collection, almost 100 works date from 1965 to 1994.
“It is likely that the greater part of them entered the collection in connection with the unofficial exhibitions that Tutsch organized at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s. became an unforgettable experience,” adds the gallery’s spokesperson. After the revolution, Načeradský already exhibited officially in Tutsch’s gallery in Brno, On a perch. It was from this author that Tutsch’s interest gradually expanded to free graphic creation.
The second exhibition space of the Royal Hradec Gallery, which is now called Galerie Na bidýlku II, represents the youngest generation of authors, students or graduates of studios of art schools. The work of thirty-one-year-old Gabriela Slaninková can be seen here, who, according to the organizers, searches for the essence of human existence in her works. “In this way, the curators are reviving Tutsch’s basic strategy in a new context, which was precisely the discovery and presentation of works by previously unknown artists,” explains spokesperson Bučková as it relates to Tutsch’s collection.
The exhibition How to collect art: the story of Karel Tutsch, which will last until October 12, 2025, tries to reconstruct Tutsch’s journey from an amateur collector of small prints and bookplates to the owner of one of the most important collections of his time in the Czech Republic. It includes more than 300 works. At the same time, it clarifies the rules that Tutsch followed when creating the collection.
According to the representatives of the gallery in Hradec Králové, he acquired works of art over a period of decades, which together form a subjective encyclopedia of Czech art from the mid-1960s to the beginning of the millennium. The collection includes works by authors such as Jiří Sopko, Antonín Střížek, Alena Kučerová, Jiří Petrbok and Ján Mančuška. The Králové Hradec Gallery purchased it in 2021. It cost more than 12 million crowns and contains almost 1,300 paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures, objects and conceptual installations.
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