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PRAGUE - Museum Kampa presents from today the work of the significant artist Karel Malich through the works of two other authors. The exhibition Turbulence is the result of a project by the Research Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts, named Gravity, which dealt with the phenomena of gravity and weightlessness in art. Another outcome of the project is Malich's monograph titled Wires/Dráty.
The eighty-one-year-old painter, graphic artist, and sculptor Karel Malich debuted in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Initially influenced by post-impressionism, he later embraced cubism and fauvism. He transitioned from expressionist landscape painting to objects and spatial compositions, and later to working with shaped wire.
It is the unique spatial realizations that Malich has been engaged in since the 1960s that have garnered the most attention from both specialists and the general public, helping to position him among the greatest personalities of Czech art in the 20th century. In these works, he seeks to address the relationship between the object and space, searching for an image of the unity between man and the cosmos.
Although individual wire objects from the 1970s and 1980s were often exhibited, a comprehensive exploration of them has been lacking until now. The academy's research institute compiled their inventory and photo documentation as part of the Gravity project.
The Turbulence exhibition presents specific works by Malich, texts, and general characteristics of his creations as interpreted by two contemporary artists. The exhibition also includes two of his wire objects, Light Energy II and Event on a Circle in a Stream of Energy.
Federico Díaz created an animation of two wire objects in conjunction with Malich's text. The video installation, which also includes an audio recording, offers viewers the opportunity to enter a pulsating and vibrating environment that is a technologically generated analogy of Malich's vision and perception of space.
Zbyněk Baladrán processed Malich's drawings from sketchbooks, presenting them as moving shapes. In another projection, textual records, again selected from Malich's sketchbooks, are displayed, the documentation and digitization of which were carried out by the research institute.
Baladrán was recently a finalist for the Chalupecký Prize, focusing primarily on video art and the conceptualization of film imagery; his activities are associated with the Prague gallery Display.
The project "Gravity - Weightlessness. Art - Religion - Science" was supported by the EU under the Culture 2000 program. It involves the collaboration of six European research institutions focused on the study of art theory and history, related humanities disciplines, and theology. Its aim is to draw public attention to this phenomenon and highlight its thematization in contemporary art, science, theology, and history.