Village
Date: September 21st – October 22nd, 2012
Opening: September 21st at 6 pm
Opening Words: Mgr. Karel Zrůbek, Mayor town of Horažďovice
Artists-in-Residence: Jiří Vašků, Ludvík Kovář , Jana Hajduchová, Melissa Briceno Cervera, Rodrigo Quinones Reyes, (Mexico)
The term "Global Village" has been used (and over-used) in recent years to reflect the millenium realizations of limited resources on the planet, as well as a more encouraging international force of a shared mentality. We are, after all, all humans. How artists view the world in different places, reflect this view of our individual cultures, as well as the more international culture that we, as humans engaging on this earth, co-create.
The various artists in this exhibition bring together different views, in different media, on what a village, global or rural, can be. From Mexico, Rodrigo Quinones Reyes and Melissa Briceno Cervera explore what a "new Mexico" would look like, in a conceptual world. Photographer Jana Hajduchova shoots portraits of local women, and the abundant natural life surrounding our rural abodes. Instructor at the local art high school, Ludvik Kovar, presents his glass sculptures next to his student's work, repeating a long local history of bohemian glass art. Local artist Jiri Vasku exhibits photos of the old Jewish cemetery in Prague; a culture once integrated into the Czech lands before Hitler tried to "cleanse" Europe.
Toleration and mutual understanding are the basis for any future dialogues on the international level. Beginning in the local villages and neighborhoods, like these artists, show us all the largesse of the small, and the hope for better communication amongst our species.
Jana Hajduchová – Hidden moments
I am fascinated by the ability of photography to capture reality and atmosphere which we cannot see through mere eye. Moments lasting for a snatch of a second, details of microcosms or the play of lights, that we do not notice when looking briefly. Capturing them on camera can be just an accident – but it brings us back to the necessity to look carefully. Beauty can lie hidden anywhere.
Václav Vašků
The New Mexico
The New Mexico is an indoors land art project reaching to create a vision of migration and display a cooperation between the world of design and the design of the world.
The idea of home has emerged from a single ground space to a multiple possibility area; Even though migration laws become harder and borders get tougher, web design allowed us a worldwide presence; Social networking has presented to us as homes and personal spaces, something like getting your own nest in the world, build by your own creativity and thoughts. Natural design will be use to display that idea in to this art project through a mural and an installation.
