From the opening of the exhibition on 14 December 2023, the Telegraph Gallery reception and our e-shop are available for purchase Guide9. Like its predecessors, this guide contains background information on the current exhibition before the exhibition catalogue is produced and presented at the opening reception. The Guide thus serves as an immediate introduction to the context when browsing through the exhibition and, through the curatorial text, illuminates the concept of the exhibition space and its realisation. It also provides visitors with information about the artists themselves, making it easier to place the works in the context of their oeuvre. This can also be facilitated by an interview with the artists, which adds clarity to the outlines and provides a wealth of detail about their intentions, vision or perspective on their own creative process.
First Guide. Guide 1. It was published for Pavel Korbička's exhibition entitled Space of Perception. Pavel Korbička's work has been primarily concerned with light, movement, sound, and working with space. At the Telegraph Gallery, he presented a site-specific light installation in an organic spiral shape that emphasized not only the hidden order but also the uniqueness of the site in an effort to provide the viewer with a space for individual perception.
In the spirit of geometry and scientific research, the second exhibition was also accompanied by Guide 2. Jan Poupě at the exhibition Neuralscape presented one of his key themes in particular - the phenomenon of landscape representation and focused on its understanding, interpretation and perception. All of this, starting with experimentation with perspective, perception of space or scale, is done in the form of traditional oil painting on the ambiguous borderline between abstracting and imitative representation.
Brighter shapes were brought forth in the May exhibition, which made full and original use of the spatial layout of the gallery space. Guide 3 discusses a scenographic installation by Mark Thera. It took us to a German villa of the 1980s, which visitors walked through and, as guests uninvited by anyone, gradually discovered the personality of the owner who lived there. But can one really know a person based on what is left behind? Mark Ther does not shy away from controversial or even outrageous themes in his work, presenting topics such as historical taboos, death and sexuality. The same is true here in more or less hidden references and allusions. All this is sprinkled with an absurd amount of Garfield the cat motifs.
Guide 4 for the exhibition Lazy 8 featured a pair of Danish artists, Frederik Næblerød and Farshad Farzanka, whose spontaneous gestural paintings filled the gallery with wild energy and unbridled creativity. The exhibition was an expression of infinity and power in everyday existence, something that defies clear rules, systems and theories. It harks back to ancient cultures and to our ancestors, for whom the walls of caves served as a canvas and who began the tradition of communicating through images.
Nearly two years since the first guide was published, Guide 5 was released for the exhibition Brave World, which was on view at the Telegraph Gallery until February 9, 2023. This exhibition featured five artists across a variety of media and forms of workmanship, creating remarkable dialogues with each other. Thus, you can see photographs by Primoz Bizjak, conceptual drawings by Robert Gabris, digital work and installation by Markéta Magidová, geometric and illusionary fragments by Anne Neukamp, and erotically charged textile reliefs by Yuli Yamagata.
Also published with Zbyněk Sedlecky's solo exhibition Connections (curated by Petr Vaňous) is Guide 6. The exhibition, available February 23 - May 11, 2023, presented Sedlecky's large-scale paintings. One of the Telegraph's most visited exhibitions ever, it featured works relating to the spatial play of subject and medium. The often static, almost timeless anonymous moments of Sedlecky's work are shot through with a powerful inner dynamism.
In the spring of 2023, the exhibition began again with the work of a single man. It was possible to visit Michal Škoda's exhibition, Topography of Solitude, until August of that year. For this exhibition, as with the previous ones, a Guide was created to refresh its conception and realisation, which is both a record and a reminder of it. Guide 7 can be found under its lucky number. The artistic transformation of one type of image into another is one of the fundamental pillars of an artist's work. He realizes his lifelong themes - his interest in space, architecture, and human place - in reduced form and color through a variety of techniques. The exhibition was curated by Silvia L. Čúzyová.
Guide 8, published to accompany the exhibition New Positions in British Painting, featured five contemporary British painters - Tom Anholt, Justin Mortimer, Jessie Makinson, David Brian Smith and Caroline Walker. The exhibition ran from 24 August 2023 to 23 November 2023 and was curated by Jane Neal. A guide which discusses the unprecedentedly exclusive content of the exhibition, not just for the Moravian context but nationally, can be purchased from the Telegraph website.
