Norbert Schmidt: A Plea for the Present or Contemporary Art in the Church
9. 12. 2014 from 6:00 PM. St. Family Church, Karel IV. Street, České Budějovice
Contemporary art and an old church – two worlds that have nothing in common? Is the church a museum institution, where only long-gone culture and strange ghetto-like art find their home, which has nothing to do with what we encounter in Tate Modern or MoMA? And what about contemporary art, is it just an incomprehensible game with glass beads for a few initiated ones or snobs? Or does it occasionally reach depths like those of Fra Angelico or Michelangelo? Are we really living today in several parallel worlds that, at best, only greet each other from afar with a half-hearted wave?
These and similar questions will be addressed in the interior of the Church of the Holy Family by architect Norbert Schmidt, head of the Center for Theology and Art at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague and editor of the theological journal Salve, who is also assisting architect Josef Pleskot with the reconstruction of the BiGy church.
The discussion meeting is organized by the House of Art in České Budějovice in cooperation with the Spiritual Administration of the Bishop's Gymnasium. The evening is hosted by Michal Škoda.
Ing. arch. Mgr. Norbert Schmidt (* 1975) is an architect and editor of the theological journal Salve, head of the Center for Theology and Art at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University. He is currently working in the AP studio of Josef Pleskot, where he is involved, for example, in the restoration of the Dominican monastery in Prague at St. Giles and in the reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Family in České Budějovice. He independently completed the reconstruction of the crypt of the Church of the Most Holy Savior in Prague (2005) and modified the chancel there (2009). In the academic church, he accompanies interventions by artists such as Václav Cigler, Adriena Šimotová, Jindřich Zeithamml, Stanislav Kolíbal, Choi Jeonghwa, Patrik Hábl, Jaromír Novotný, and others. In 2013, he completed, with Helena Kohlová, the adaptation of the liturgical space of the monastic church in Slaný. In the fall of 2014, he initiated a temporary modification of the grave of the fallen at White Mountain, collaborating with painter Patrik Hábl and composer Michal Rataj. The intervention in the baroque pilgrimage site was accompanied by a broad cultural program titled - What divided us can unite us today? From November 2014 to July 2015, the Volyn Gallery Na shledanou hosts his architectural intervention ÜBERRAUM. Norbert Schmidt publishes on the topic of the relationship between theology, architecture, and art in both professional and popular magazines.
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These and similar questions will be addressed in the interior of the Church of the Holy Family by architect Norbert Schmidt, head of the Center for Theology and Art at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Prague and editor of the theological journal Salve, who is also assisting architect Josef Pleskot with the reconstruction of the BiGy church.
The discussion meeting is organized by the House of Art in České Budějovice in cooperation with the Spiritual Administration of the Bishop's Gymnasium. The evening is hosted by Michal Škoda.
Ing. arch. Mgr. Norbert Schmidt (* 1975) is an architect and editor of the theological journal Salve, head of the Center for Theology and Art at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Charles University. He is currently working in the AP studio of Josef Pleskot, where he is involved, for example, in the restoration of the Dominican monastery in Prague at St. Giles and in the reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Family in České Budějovice. He independently completed the reconstruction of the crypt of the Church of the Most Holy Savior in Prague (2005) and modified the chancel there (2009). In the academic church, he accompanies interventions by artists such as Václav Cigler, Adriena Šimotová, Jindřich Zeithamml, Stanislav Kolíbal, Choi Jeonghwa, Patrik Hábl, Jaromír Novotný, and others. In 2013, he completed, with Helena Kohlová, the adaptation of the liturgical space of the monastic church in Slaný. In the fall of 2014, he initiated a temporary modification of the grave of the fallen at White Mountain, collaborating with painter Patrik Hábl and composer Michal Rataj. The intervention in the baroque pilgrimage site was accompanied by a broad cultural program titled - What divided us can unite us today? From November 2014 to July 2015, the Volyn Gallery Na shledanou hosts his architectural intervention ÜBERRAUM. Norbert Schmidt publishes on the topic of the relationship between theology, architecture, and art in both professional and popular magazines.
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