Zlín Gallery is preparing a series on local post-war architects

Zlín - The Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín is preparing a cycle that will present personalities of post-war architecture in Zlín. A generational group of architects who graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Prague has significantly marked the face of the city; in 1948, a detached studio of the Regional Architectural Studio was established in Luhačovice, as announced today by Michaela Mitáčková, spokesperson for the Baťa Institute where the gallery is located. People will first become acquainted with the work of architect Jiří Čančík.
According to Čančík's design, a crematorium, the Čedok building, and a service center were built in Zlín, and he also designed, for example, the Mojmír housing estate in Uherské Hradiště. "His approach is characterized by the connection between architecture and fine arts. The mutual resonance of architecture and art is often overlooked today," stated the exhibition curator Ladislava Horňáková.
People will get acquainted with the plans of his buildings, drawings, photographs, and personal correspondence at the exhibition. The exhibition titled "In the End, It Is the Image of Working with People - Architect Jiří Čančík 1922-2001" was created mainly from the legacy of the architect stored in the Zlín gallery. It will last in Zlín until November 9 and will then be installed at the gallery of the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague.
"It will be supplemented by a publication that will present a probe into the still little-explored period of the history of Czech architecture and design. In addition to the memories of eyewitnesses and expert texts, it will also contain profiles of classmates from the art school," Horňáková noted.