Janez Collection / Organizovaná posedlost
| Title in English | Janez Collection / Organized obsession |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | The love of art, the passion, fascination, obsession and desire to own a certain type of object grows in some rare cases into a special kind of addiction that leads to the systematic creation of collections. Regardless of contemporary critical attitudes towards the role of private collecting in society, the exhibition addresses collecting as a natural and important part of our culture, which Russell W. Belk aptly termed organized obsession. The Janez Collection's first public presentation is an opportunity to document, categorize, and evaluate the collection in the form of a catalogue that captures the current state of the collection in all its complexity, from the geometric and constructivist tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s through conceptual expressions to contemporary artists of the middle and younger generations who relate to the legacies of geometric art, minimalism, and concept art in a variety of ways. In contrast, the exhibition is conceived as a curatorial selection that provides insight into an elusive whole in which chronological considerations do not play a role, but the interrelationships between works within a newly constituted collection system that is transhistorical in nature. Inherent in the artists represented is the desire to express themselves through elementary artistic means, working with the language of geometry and developing its possibilities, usually with an emphasis on the ideological component. Some are interested in the problem of materializing the intangible or visualizing the invisible. Others are directed towards reflections on the nature of art and the artistic process or focus on the tension between order and chaos. In a new context, the works of artists such as Hugo Demartini, Jaromír Novotný, Olga Karlíková, Tomas Rajlich, Jan Šerých, Michal Škoda, Jan Kubíček, Argišt Alaverdyan, Karel Malich, Stano Filko and many others are placed side by side. |