František Bílek (1872–1941)

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2021
Number of pages: 462
Size: 297 × 230 mm
Language: in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-179-7
Editor: Hana Larvová
Authors: Aleš Filip, Xavier Galmiche, Martin Jindra, Dagmar Koudelková, Milan Kreuzzieger, Hana Larvová, Jaroslav Med, Dana Mikulejská, Marcela Mrázová, Roman Musil, Jan Rous, Milouš Růžička, Otto M. Urban, Josef Vojvodík, Jindřich Vybíral, Petr Wittlich
Bibliography, List of Exhibitions and Catalogues of Works: Polana Bregantová, Marie Halířová, Dagmar Koudelková, Milan Kreuzzieger, Pavel Myslín, Hana Larvová, Veronika Rubášová (abART Archive of Fine Arts)
English Translation: Adrian Dean, Tomáš Míka, C. Morris, Howard Sidenberg, Jan Šefranka, Vladimíra Šefranka Žáková, Jan Valeška
Photographs: Irena Armutidisová, Jaroslav Bárta, Matěj Bárta, Dana Cabanová, Jan Diviš, Hana Hamplová, Václav Jirásek, Aleš Jungmann, Bedřich Kolář, Michaela Kvítková, Blanka Lamrová, Oto Palán, Prokop Paul, Jan Pospíšil, Milan Posselt, Bohuslav Sýkora, Miloslav Šebek, Gabriel Urbánek, Antonín Vodák, the archive of Prague City Gallery, the archive of the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, the photographic archive of the Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy, the collections of the Jewish Museum in Prague, private archive
English Translation Editors: Richard Drury, Vladimíra Šefranka Žáková
Graphic Design: Michal Slejška
Adjustment of Photographs: FPS REPRO, spol. s r.o.
Book Production: Veronika Benešová Hudečková, Anna Kulíčková

2nd extended edition

Prague City Gallery is launching the long-awaited reissue of the essential anthology František Bílek (1872–1941), which accompanied his major retrospective at the Prague Castle Riding School in 2000. This updated and expanded monograph, consisting of expert studies, lists of works, and a detailed biography and bibliography by leading art historians and theorists, provides hitherto the most comprehensive view of the life and work of this extraordinary artist of Art Nouveau symbolism and mysticism, who encompassed a wide range of artistic forms from sculpture and architecture to drawing, prints and arts and crafts. This extensive and richly illustrated book has been published with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Heroin Crystal. Nineties Generation in Prague City Gallery

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 388
Size: 270 × 210 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-180-3
Editor: Olga Malá
Texts: Olga Malá, Michal Koleček, Jakub Král, Terezie Nekvindová, Miroslav Petříček
Bibliography: Veronika Rubášová, Jiří Hůla / Archive of Fine Arts
Translations: Milan Jára, Tomáš Míka, Vladimíra Šefranka
Text editing: Alena Benešová, Ondřej Krochmalný, Vladimíra Šefranka
Picture Editor: Dana Haltufová
Photographs: Tomáš Souček, exhibiting artists archive, Prague City Gallery archive, Academy of Fine Arts archive
Graphic Design: Anymade Studio (Petr Cabalka, Filip Nerad)
Production: Blanka Nezbeda Rosecká

The catalogue Heroin Crystal. The 1990s Generation in Prague City Gallery has been published for the exhibition of the same name at the Stone Bell House from 14 April to 28 August 2022.

The book presents the key works of fifteen protagonists of the “Golden 1990s” generation (Krištof Kintera, Michal Pěchouček, Veronika Bromová, Markéta Othová, Jiří Černický, Federico Díaz, Milena Dopitová and others). These artists exhibited at Prague City Gallery at the very beginning of their artistic career, and since then they have attained fame both at home and on the international art scene. The activities of Prague City Gallery in the hectic years 1994–2002 associated with artists of this generation were organized and curated by a pair of young art historians, Olga Malá and Karel Srp. The book consists of an extensive pictorial section accompanied by texts by Michal Koleček, Terezie Nekvindová, Jakub Král, Miroslav Petříček and Olga Malá. A separate final chapter is devoted to the Archive, which deals with each of the twenty-two exhibitions in chronological order and provides visuals of documentary materials such as invitations, catalogues and photographs from exhibitions and openings, as well as press reviews.

Divination from a Night Sky Partially Obscured by Clouds. The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 212
Size: 170 × 240 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-181-0
Editor: Jitka Hlaváčková
Texts: Palo Fabuš, Jitka Hlaváčková, Andrea Průchová Hrůzová, Hana Janečková, Václav Janoščík, František Kalivoda, Jen Kratochvil, Vojtěch Märc, Lucia Gregorová Stach, Barbora Trnková, Pavel Vančát, Filip Vančo
Translations to English: Adrian Dean, Jan Morávek
Translations to Czech: Martin Micka
Text editing: Tatjana Štemberová
Photos: Larry Achiampong & David Blandy; Hynek Alt, Ruth Beale Studio; Ivars Gravlejs, Tomáš Hliva, Jana Ilková, Nikol Czuczorová, Richard Janeček, Andrej Kiripolský, Alena Kotzmannová, Markéta Magidová, Markéta Othová, Martin Polák, Lucie Rosenfeldová, Erica Scourti Studio; Matěj Smetana, Jonáš Strouhal, Petr Svárovský, Ezra Šimek, Jiří Thýn, Leevi Toija, Aleksandra Vajd, Max Vajt
Graphic Design: Martin Odehnal
Production: Katarína Valentová

The publishing of this catalogue has been supported by a grant from the State Cultural Fund, which is administered by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

The catalogue Divination from a Night Sky Partly Covered by Clouds. The Role of Photography in the Post-Media Age has been published for the exhibition of the same name at the House of Photography from 24 May to 18 September 2022.

The catalogue explores contemporary forms of visuality in art that is based on the medium of photography. It presents a spectrum of conceptual and artistic approaches by more than thirty artists and theorists from Czechia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, Greece and other countries. The ground plan for the catalogue consists of studies by twelve co-authors who responded to a survey on the subject of post-media photography. Their contributions indicate how visual art is coming to terms with the ever greater intersecting of the physical and digital worlds, and their connections with global networks and processes. This process is significantly changing the ways in which images are created and their resulting forms, as well as the methods for their manipulation and storage. Technologies working with artificial intelligence can enhance, adjust and even create images of seeming reality, turn static images into moving ones, animate them and use 3D printing to manufacture reality itself. They can also use psychological and sociological analyses and algorithms to categorise information and tailor individual realities to each user. Such technologies are increasingly becoming a self-sufficient artistic medium. The catalogue is not the outcome of collaboration, but is a partly random structure that has to some extent adopted the principles of post-media reality. On the basis of a heterogeneous sample of artistic and theoretical approaches, it addresses questions concerning photography’s role in the accelerating fragmentation, multiplicity and manipulability of visual media, and how this process has influenced “art photography”. It examines the relationship between a digital archive and the emotional memory of art, and the social role of art in a system whose limitlessness places it beyond any control. The fragmentary nature of these investigations would seem to be the hallmark of contemporary perception. The spectrum of responses creates a plastic mosaic whose individual pieces represent different aspects of how we approach photography at a time when photography itself is dissolving into the myriad formats and infinite expanse of digital space. Exploring this universe through human senses and emotions is like divining from a night sky largely covered by clouds. And just as it was formerly the night sky that represented the ethereal dimension or the infiniteness of space and time, today such expectations are similarly attached to digital networks. It is therefore also increasingly natural to direct our questions to virtuality for what it can tell us not only about our present, but also about our future.

Suška – Stones / Škoda – Objects

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2022
Number of pages: 100
Size: 170 × 260 mm
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-183-4
Exhibition curator: Magdalena Juříková
Texts: Magdalena Juříková, Michal Škoda, Čestmír Suška
Translations to English: Tomáš Míka, Vincent Farnsworth
Text editing: Ondřej Krochmalný
Photos: Martin Polák, Gabriel Urbánek
Graphic Design: Anymade studio

The Suška – Stones / Škoda – Objects Catalogue is being published for the
exhibition of the same name, presenting works by artists Michal Škoda
and Čestmír Suška at the Troja Château from 6 April to 3 October 2022.

Michal Škoda works with maximally reduced shapes that expand via
hybrid form in space and thus do not resemble classical stereometric
formations. They look like objects derived from futuristic architecture, or
boxes hiding some magical secret. In addition, he is extensively focused
on drawing, a 2D expression of the spatial layouts observed in the objects.
Alongside minimalist morphology, the use of black monochrome or the
simple contrast of black and white is an important expressive component
of his works.

Čestmír Suška often defines his work through material. Currently, he is
standing firmly in a new phase, dealing with stone. His work with
perforated cisterns is a thing of the past and the removing of a mass from
a stone block represents a completely opposite sculptural procedure
which not only requires craftsmanship and a flexible perception of the
quality of the stone, but also that the original concept of the future work,
the final product, must not be deviated from.

Sounds Codes Images

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Publisher: ArtMAp
Year of publication: 2021
Edition: 1.
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-907873-4-6
Editors: Miloš Vojtěchovský, Jitka Hlaváčková
Texts: Anna Kvíčalová, Jitka Hlaváčková, Martin Flašar, Michal Nejtek, Viktor Pantůček, Milan Guštar, Josef Czeres, Helena Musilová, Michal Kindernay, Miloš Vojtěchovský, Martin Klimeš a Jakub Frank, Dušan Barok
Translations: Jan Morávek, Vít Bohal, Phil Jones, Brian D. Vondrak
Text editing: Jiří Novák
Proofreading: Lenka Kubelová (CZ), Ken Ganfield, Brian D. Vondrak (ENG)
Graphic Design: Petr Hrůza

The bilingual collective monograph Sounds Codes Images explores the transitional zone between image and sound, particularly in the fields where visual arts and music meet and interconnect.

The first section introduces approaches to sound and experimentation in the field of fine arts from the perspective of so-called sound studies. It maps the overlaps of image of sound in Czech and Czechoslovak visual art and synaesthesia from the position of contemporary music theory. It deals with the echoes of the Fluxus movement, non-codified principles of musical notation, and graphic scores in the works of Czechoslovak musicians and artists. It studies the spatial materialization of music and presents an introduction to sound as a mathematical phenomenon. It also addresses the contemporary topic of acoustic ecology.

The second section of the book comprises an introduction to the works of several dozen Czech, Slovak, and foreign artists who, in their local contexts, experimented with sound, the sonification of images, or the visualization of sound: authors of graphic scores, abstract images, sounding or resonating objects, and instalations or works utilizing digital media.

Martin Zet: Star

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Publisher: Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
Year of publication: 2021
Edition: 1.
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-176-6
Editor: Miroslav Olšovský
Texts: Petr Hrbáč, Vít Janota, Zuzana Lazarová, Petr Maděra, Benoit Meunier, Miroslav Olšovský, Publius Ovidius Naso, Josef Straka, Robert Wudy
Translated by: David Vichnar
Photographs: Ondřej Besperát, Michal Kovář, Jan Trejbal, Adam Zet, Martin Zet
Graphic Design: Martin Zet

The artist’s publication, full of drawings, original poems and photographs, is, at the end of the pandemic year, a materialisation of the events that took place in the peripheral, and nowadays not very accessible, landscape of Prague’s Motol. For his residency at the Motol landfill, the artist and sculptor Martin Zet designed a performative project based on contemplation and on the arrangement of group events – festivities. Making present the image of the structure of the Star Summer Palace purely in the imagination of the participants, the participation of poets and the verbalisation of the place through original poetry, the delineation of the ground plan and the virtual drilling into the subsoil of the dump form an analogy with an architectural project that will never be realised. The AntiStar project, the immersion into the bowels of the Motol landfill of the negative imprint of the Star Summer Palace from the nearby eponymous deer park near the White Mountain, is the artist’s personal scientific research into the landscape. The book is his personal diary, a collection of poems, a summary of empirical investigation and archival research, an artist’s sketchbook and a catalogue, all in one. Petr Hrbáč, Vít Janota, Zuzana Lazarová, Petr Maděra, Benoit Meunier, Miroslav Olšovský, Josef Straka and Robert Wudy contributed their verses.

Artists’ research residencies in the periphery of Prague took place within the Art for the City programme. The CirculUM project was implemented by the Prague City Gallery in cooperation with the Neolokator.cz transdisciplinary platform.

The Stone Bell House

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Publisher: Prague City Gallery (GHMP)
Year of publication: 2021
Edition: 1.
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-178-0
Editor: Marie Foltýnová
Texts: Marie Foltýnová, Petr Skalický, Tadeáš Kadlec, Vladimír Plichta
Language Editor: Bernadette Elizabeth Higgins
Translated by: Rani Tolimat
Photographs: Martin Micka, Tomáš Souček
Graphic Design: Lenka Jasanská
Production: Anna Kulíčková (GHMP)

Today, the Stone Bell House on the Old Town Square is perceived as one of the few authentic medieval houses in Prague. However, its current look is the result of recent reconstruction, which began in the 1970s and took almost twenty years. On the outside, the stone façade was uniformly restored in Gothic style; inside, the remains of the medieval era are limited to a few areas with fragments of preserved, restored or retouched paintings and sculptural decorations. The illustrated guide outlines the building development of the house and the restoration of the historic look of the palace, and maps the preserved architectural and artistic elements.

Magdalena Jetelová: Urban Landscape 14° 25′0″ E Connection 50° 05′15″ N

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2001
Edition: 1.
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-083-4
Texts: Olga Malá, Werner Meyer, Miroslav Petříček, Jana Tichá
Translated by: Alena Bláhová, Angela Rabold, Vladimíra Žáková
Photos: DASA, Werner J. Hannappel, Josef Kubíček, Magdalena Jetelová, Jan Mihaliček
Graphic Design: Martin Pálka

The catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Magdalena Jetelová: Urban Landscape 14 ° 25’0″ Connection 50°05’15” N in the Municipal Library, 2nd floor, from 27 April to 1 July 2001.

Actual infinity: Konflikty a souvislosti baroka v moderním a současném českém umění

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Publisher: GHMP
Year of publication: 2000
Edition: 1.
Language: in Czech, in English
ISBN: 978-80-7010-067-8
Welcome text and concept: Tomáš Vlček
Translated by: Kathleen Hayes
Photographs: P. Paul, M. Polák, H. Hamplová, Galerie OETZ (archiv), J. Sudek, I. Armutidisová, D. Veselý, Neues Museum in Nürnberg (archiv), T. Vlček, A. Janovský, Galerie Jiří Švestka (archiv), Č. Šíla, W. J. Jannappel, Waldesova sbírka (archiv), Památník Národního Písemnictví Praha (archiv)
Editorial staff: Dana Mikulejská
Graphic design: Tomáš Machek

The catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Current Infinity – Conflicts and Contexts of Baroque in Modern and Contemporary Art, which took place in the Municipal Library, 2nd floor 27 September – 31 December, 12, 2000.

František Bílek and his Prague studio