Petrification
9.1.2014 - 21.2.2015
Drdova Gallery
Křižkovského 10, Prague 3
Curator: Hana Budeus
Opening hours: Tue - Fri 1p.m. – 6 p.m., Sat. 2p.m. – 6 p.m.
Václav Kopecký exhibits exhibition. The exhibition with the same name took place in the summer in House of Art in České Budějovice. Moreover the viewer has opportunity to meet the exhibition at Drdova Gallery only through different links: : early catalog with several reproductions, photos which were took down and exposed porcelain of Antonín Tomášek. The author works here with the history of a particular exhibition, which not only was, but at the same time is. It shows us situation after taking down the exhibition and at the same time just before the opening, when the author is engaging in photographs in several levels at once. He refers to reproductions using title of the exhibition that nature creates itself exposed to reproducible porcelain castings that are in a certain sense, the original and copies simultaneously, and finally to catalog photo used in the form of documentation of the exhibition, which is no longer. When Václav was explaining his intention to me, I imagined various empty galleries in art history that I know them of course only indirectly, from photos and books: e.g. Yves Klein, who in the late fifties exhibited "nothingness" in a Paris gallery, but also to George Brecht and his presentation "Three Chair Events" in Martha Jackson gallery in New York. Maybe the shop window to the street, as is shown in the photo documentation, reminds somehow of Lucie Drdová Gallery . As it seems obvious, concrete realization of the original idea played an important role, which was strongly influenced by the space and the audience. Now imperfection final version, limited real-world conditions, it may be interesting for us today. Therefore, at the end of this exhibition, the empty gallery is just one level of the exhibition, but certainly not the intended result. Not to be ambitious gesture, but only a conscious effort to use the resources that are available.
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