Lecture Series "Wednesdays at AVU" - Summer Semester 2014/2015

The VVP AVU invites you to the spring lecture series Wednesdays at AVU, which will focus on the history of exhibitionism:
 
March 18, 2015, 18:00
TOMÁŠ WINTER
Between Tradition and Innovation
Exhibitions of the Group of Fine Artists in Prague 1912–1914
The lecture will focus on four Prague exhibitions of the Group of Fine Artists, each of which had a specific concept reflected directly in the installation. The members of the Group, working on Cubism, navigated between historical tradition and the radicality of stylistic expression. How evident were these and other tendencies in the exhibitions? To what extent and how effectively does the exposition represent and mediate a certain theoretical model of creation?
 
April 1, 2015, 18:00
MARTIN MAZANEC
Film Projections at the Theatrical Technology Exhibitions of Friedrich Kiesler
“The theater is dead. Let us prepare it a magnificent funeral.” Kiesler stated in the catalog for the New York exhibition at Steinway Hall (1926). This followed exhibitions in Paris (1925) and Vienna (1924), where in the project for the new theater space he replaced the curtain with a white projection screen. Friedrich Kiesler was originally an Austrian designer, architect, scenographer, and the youngest member of the De Stijl group.
 
April 15, 2015, 18:00
KAREL CÍSAŘ
Disruption and Shock
Discursive Spaces of International Exhibitions of the 20s and 30s
In response to increasing urbanization and the development of mass media, a radical change in perception and experience occurred at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The response to this change was not only modern film but also discursive and participatory exhibitions such as the textile exhibition by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich (1927) and the entrance hall at the exhibition of architectural trades by László Moholy-Nagy (1931). These installations established “the grammar of modern exhibitionism”, the rules of which contemporary art is still discovering.
 
April 29, 2015, 18:00
OTTO URBAN
From Berlin to Prague
Exhibitions of Edvard Munch 1892–1905
The lecture will discuss the development of exhibition strategies of painter Edvard Munch from his first exhibition outside Norway in 1892 in Berlin to his major retrospective in 1905 in Prague, which influenced an entire generation of Czech artists. Otto Urban will also place Munch’s exhibitions in the context of salon, world, and association exhibitions of the 19th century.
 

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Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
U Akademie 4, auditorium – 3rd floor

Organized by the Research and Development Unit of AVU in cooperation with the Department of Theory and History of Art AVU
Technical support by Digilab AVU
Online stream by ČT24 as part of Czech Television’s I-Streaming

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