The opening will take place on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, at 5 PM in Trmal's Villa. The exhibition will last until November 17, 2013. During the opening, a small guide to Folk Architecture of Moravia and Silesia will be unveiled.
The exhibition is held on the occasion of the Year of Folk Architecture in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia 2013. The exhibition was prepared by FOIBOS BOOKS s.r.o. and FOIBOS BOHEMIA o.p.s. in collaboration with NPÚ ÚOP Kroměříž and an authors' team led by Jana Spathová: Jaroslav Novosad, Věra Kovářů, Olga Floriánová, Alena Prudká. The authors' team will participate in the opening.
To the exhibition Folk Buildings Known and Unknown – Zlín Region
In the Zlín region, which consists of the Kroměříž, Uherské Hradiště, Vsetín, and Zlín regions, where the ethnographic areas of Haná, Slovácko, and Wallachia intertwine, many objects of original village architecture have been preserved to this day. Alongside proclaimed monuments of folk architecture, numerous other significant examples of local building culture development remain unnoticed and are little known, often possessing extraordinary architectural values that also deserve to remain preserved in their original state as significant cultural heritage of regional village architecture. However, their number is rapidly decreasing, and folk buildings are literally disappearing from village settlements from one day to the next. Nevertheless, despite this unfavorable prognosis, in recent years, many unused and abandoned monuments of folk architecture have become opportunities for the activity of local history and historically minded initiatives in communities and the activities of folklore ensembles. Many municipalities have realized that the monuments of folk architecture are often the only historical wealth of the village, the loss of which cannot be compensated. Each of these monuments is very important for the municipality and for the people living in the vicinity of the monument. Its significance and impact on the surrounding area become most evident only with its disappearance – simply, it is suddenly absent. Many beautiful and valuable monuments have been saved and are serving the public, yet many monuments still await help. On the individual panels, we can see what has been preserved from this part of the cultural heritage in the Zlín region. There are few places on this earth that can so demonstratively testify to the possible symbiosis of humans and landscape as the rural space. Let us wish each other that among the people, there are more and more enthusiasts who are willing to invest their time and also money, and above all, a lot of energy, into saving folk architecture, which can shine in its full, forgotten glory thanks to their care.
The exhibition has already been on display in the municipality of Vlčnov from September 20 to September 30, where it took place as part of the III. nationwide event for the Year of Folk Architecture 2013. Participants at the meeting organized by the UNESCO Club in Kroměříž on October 15 also had the chance to see the exhibition, which was presented alongside the exhibition featuring the Village Monument Reserve of Holašovice.