City Builders and Visual Smog - two outdoor exhibitions in Pilsen
The 12th annual Architecture Day will take place in Plzeň this coming weekend. The festival program, prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association, will conclude next week with the opening of two exhibitions. On Monday, October 3rd at 5 PM, an outdoor exhibition titled City Builders 1914-1948 will be inaugurated in Smetanovy sady in front of the Study and Scientific Library of the Plzeň Region. Then, on Tuesday, October 4th at 6 PM, the opening of the exhibition "Visual Noise" will take place at the Moving Station space, thematizing the ever-present visual noise that contributes to the fragmentation of public space.
The exhibition City Builders 1914-1948 was prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association in collaboration with the Presentation and Marketing Department of the Plzeň City Hall, and is also connected to the popularization project Plzeň Architectural Manual (PAM), which gradually maps the architecture and building culture of the city from the last century. The authors, led by curator Petr Klíma, dedicate the exhibition to several dozen local builders who significantly contributed to the development of Plzeň during the period between the First World War and the February coup.
"Local bricklaying masters, builders, construction entrepreneurs, and designers not only carried out public, industrial, and other construction projects, including infrastructure, but also met the demand of Plzeň residents for rental and ownership housing. The implementation of residential buildings, whose designs were mostly processed by the builders themselves, well represents the advanced building culture of the interwar era," states Petr Klíma. "In connection with this, we aim to highlight the authorship aspect of the interwar construction production and the level and intensity of construction entrepreneurial activities at that time. Based on research in local archives and field studies, we present the destinies and works of Karel Bubla, the Pašek brothers, father and son Špalkovi, or Němcovi, as well as the creations of Karel Tomášek, František Měsíček, Rudolf Pěchouček, and others on two dozen panels with nearly 200 contemporary and historical photographs and examples of drawings," adds Klíma. The exhibition, organized by the city of Plzeň with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, will run until November 3, 2022.
The second exhibition was prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association in cooperation with the Visual Smog initiative in Plzeň.
The aim of the exhibition, created in collaboration with students from the local Secondary School of Business, Applied Arts, and Design, is to bring the viewer closer to the ubiquitous visual noise that contributes to the fragmentation of public space. The students from "Nerudovka" are the authors of the presented images and also took care of the graphic design of the exhibition.
"Just as an excess of advertisements in public space leads to the disruption of the visual image of its breakdown into individual points, so does the visual noise which we absorb without realizing it.
The exhibition emphasizes the need to be surrounded by a cultivated public space in the city that
does not lose its socio-cultural function, form, and symbolic significance beneath layers of advertising
messages and inconceptual 'pavement' solutions," says exhibition curator Ivona Kovářová. "As with last year’s exhibition in Šafaříkovy sady, we want to signal with this exhibition that we care about how public space in Plzeň looks," Kovářová adds.
The exhibition will also include a supporting program—such as a presentation by the graphic waste initiative of Filip Bitnar and Filip Čapský, who will showcase the biggest graphic "delicacies" visible in public space in Plzeň. The exhibition will run until December 16, 2022.
The exhibition City Builders 1914-1948 was prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association in collaboration with the Presentation and Marketing Department of the Plzeň City Hall, and is also connected to the popularization project Plzeň Architectural Manual (PAM), which gradually maps the architecture and building culture of the city from the last century. The authors, led by curator Petr Klíma, dedicate the exhibition to several dozen local builders who significantly contributed to the development of Plzeň during the period between the First World War and the February coup.
"Local bricklaying masters, builders, construction entrepreneurs, and designers not only carried out public, industrial, and other construction projects, including infrastructure, but also met the demand of Plzeň residents for rental and ownership housing. The implementation of residential buildings, whose designs were mostly processed by the builders themselves, well represents the advanced building culture of the interwar era," states Petr Klíma. "In connection with this, we aim to highlight the authorship aspect of the interwar construction production and the level and intensity of construction entrepreneurial activities at that time. Based on research in local archives and field studies, we present the destinies and works of Karel Bubla, the Pašek brothers, father and son Špalkovi, or Němcovi, as well as the creations of Karel Tomášek, František Měsíček, Rudolf Pěchouček, and others on two dozen panels with nearly 200 contemporary and historical photographs and examples of drawings," adds Klíma. The exhibition, organized by the city of Plzeň with support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the State Fund for Culture of the Czech Republic, will run until November 3, 2022.
The second exhibition was prepared by the Pěstuj prostor association in cooperation with the Visual Smog initiative in Plzeň.
The aim of the exhibition, created in collaboration with students from the local Secondary School of Business, Applied Arts, and Design, is to bring the viewer closer to the ubiquitous visual noise that contributes to the fragmentation of public space. The students from "Nerudovka" are the authors of the presented images and also took care of the graphic design of the exhibition.
"Just as an excess of advertisements in public space leads to the disruption of the visual image of its breakdown into individual points, so does the visual noise which we absorb without realizing it.
The exhibition emphasizes the need to be surrounded by a cultivated public space in the city that
does not lose its socio-cultural function, form, and symbolic significance beneath layers of advertising
messages and inconceptual 'pavement' solutions," says exhibition curator Ivona Kovářová. "As with last year’s exhibition in Šafaříkovy sady, we want to signal with this exhibition that we care about how public space in Plzeň looks," Kovářová adds.
The exhibition will also include a supporting program—such as a presentation by the graphic waste initiative of Filip Bitnar and Filip Čapský, who will showcase the biggest graphic "delicacies" visible in public space in Plzeň. The exhibition will run until December 16, 2022.
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