There and Back. Contemporary Art, Architecture and Urbanism

Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague invites you to the exhibition:

THERE AND BACK
CONTEMPORARY ART, ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Exhibition opening on Tuesday the 10th November at 6pm.

Exhibition runs from 11th November 2015 till 5th January 2016.

Open: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–8pm

Gallery UM
nám. Jana Palacha 80, Prague 1

The exhibition entitled There and Back presents a deliberately narrowed selection of six recent examples from the areas of contemporary design, architecture and urbanism.

Six examples: Aging dress by Zuzana Kubíčková • Old-new shoes by Zuzana Ševčíková and Eliška Kuchtová • Cemetery type byVojtěch Říha • Instant telephone by Jan Čtvrtník • Adaptable house by Ondřej Michálek • Black-and-white landscape by Jan Vybíral

The exhibition curators, who also teach at the Department of Art Theory and History of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, explain the concept as follows: “The principal criterion was the subject of time or, more precisely, various time levels of the present.”

What does it mean today to be contemporary, what is the temporality of the present?

Obviously, it exceeds the framework of what is taking place right now.

Some contemporary works deliberately return to pre-images of the past, others channel the future. Some are weird mixtures of both, can be passéistic and visionary at the same time. Between these direct opposites, between inspiration and looking back into the past and there into the future, lie several time levels that touch upon the issues of transience, temporariness and ephemerality and, in contrast, also upon the concepts of permanence and eternity.

The exhibition is accompanied by a folder with a brief presentation of the six projects in Czech and English, and a publication including specialist studies, interviews with leading figures in art and design and a wealth of photographs.

Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Pavla Pauknerová, Cyril Říha (eds.), Tam a zpátky. Současný design, architektura a urbanismus, UMPRUM Praha 2015, 538 pages.

Exhibition curators: Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Pavla Pauknerová, Cyril Říha
Exhibition design: Pavel Nový, Vít Svoboda
Graphic design: Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová
Photography: Daniela Dostálková
Exhibition installation: Ondřej Čech
Translation: Irma Charvátová 
Production: Veronika Rollová

The exhibition is part of the project “Art, Architecture, Design and National Identity” realized by the Department of Art Theory and History at the AAAD, and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in the Applied Research and Development of National and Cultural Identity (NAKI, code DF12P01OVV041).