Jan 28 | '09 | TRANSFER
The exhibition project TRANSFER presents
The exhibition project TRANSFER presents painting which reflects four most significant tendencies in figural painting that departs from the environment of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. It summarizes painting in the horizon of the past two decades as it was formed on the academic ground in the span of teacher-student relationship. The basic subject of the exhibition is an imaginary passing the tradition on in the form of principles which the students adopted from their teachers, Zdeněk Beran, Michael Rittstein, Vladimír Skrepl and Jiří Sopko, and carry them on as a message of expression. This is also why the exhibition is entitled TRANSFER – in the sense of shifting, transferring knowledge and artistic opinion from one generation to another in every of the painting tendencies. Secondarily, the title expresses transferring and presenting Czech painting abroad, because the exhibition premiered in the spaces of the Munich WhiteBOX Gallery, where it introduced viewers to contemporary Czech painting. In Bavaria, the exhibition met with a surprisingly positive response, as can be proved by the reviews in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and the gallery therefore decided to hold it a month longer. The European tour, however, is not the end of the TRANSFER project: after its realization in the Brno House of Arts, it moves to the two stores of the just opened Czech National Building in New York in October 2009. The exhibition is accompanied by a Czech-German printed catalogue. The artists presented at the exhibition are the following: Alena Anderlová, Karel Balcar, Zdeněk Beran, Josef Bolf, Filip Černý, Zdeněk Daněk, Roman Franta, Václav Girsa, Igor Grimmich, Jakub Hošek, Karel Jerie, Marta Kolářová, Igor Korpaczewski, Filip Kudrnáč, Vladimír Skrepl, Hynek Martinec, Lukáš Miffek, Mikuláš, Jiří Petrbok, Miroslav Polách, Michael Rittstein, Martin Salajka, Zbyněk Sedlecký, Jiří Sopko, Robert Šalanda, Barbora Šlapetová, and Jaroslav Valečka. TRANSFER House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno 28 January – 8 March 2009
