The 'Hold' exhibition features a significant authorial project by poet Sally Ball and graphic artist Jan Vičar, developed between 2015 and 2018. This powerful collaboration explores the pressing themes of the environmental crisis through a unique author's book and a collection of striking linocut prints. Visitors can experience the visual interpretation of original poetic imagery and delve into both minimal and macroscopic processes associated with global ecological challenges.
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This exhibition presents 'Hold', an authorial project by poet Sally Ball and graphic artist Jan Vičar, created between 2015 and 2018. The project, inspired by a joint creative residency, includes an author's book and linocut prints that explore the central theme of the environmental crisis and its associated processes.
The exhibition 'Hold' showcases a significant authorial project by poet Sally Ball and graphic artist Jan Vičar, developed between 2015 and 2018 following a joint creative residency in Marnay-sur-Seine. The project comprises an author's book and a collection of separate linocut prints that visually interpret and extend the original poetic imagery. The central thematic concern of 'Hold' is the 'end of the human world' and the pressing issues surrounding the environmental crisis. It delves into both minimal and macroscopic processes associated with these phenomena. The presentation of this work is noted as being highly symbolic, particularly in the context of commemorating the Czech presidency of the EU Council. The exhibition concept was developed by Jiří Vičar, with curatorial support from Barbora Kundračíková and graphic design by David Pajer.
Admission to this exhibition is free. It is located in the main building of The Museum of Decorative Arts.
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