MUO A EDO 2024 DNES ZAHAJUJÍ VÝSTAVU MIROSLAVY KLESALOVÉ

The Olomouc Museum of Art has been a long-term partner of the Ecological Days Olomouc and this year will be no different, as evidenced by today’s opening of Miroslava Klesalová’s exhibition Landscape Re-Construction in the Caesar Gallery. The exhibition is a precursor to the whole festival, which starts on 12 April in CENTRAL with a big concert by František Skála and Třaskavá směsi.

“The focus of Mirka Klesalová’s long-term work is personal memory. How does one relate to one’s environment? Why? What do they react to? What does he remember? What does he touch and what does he deliberately get rid of? But he does not look at it independently, that would perhaps not even be possible. It reflects its context, cultural history, the history of the landscape and its dynamics,” says Barbora Kundračíková, the curator of the exhibition from the MUO.

The general or objectifying limit to which Klesalová refers is the process of collectivisation of agriculture taking place on a massive scale in the 1950s. She reflects on its impact on the landscape and social structures using the example of her own “homeland”, the region of southwest Bohemia, Pošumava. He develops the process of internal transformation and possible cultivation of the given condition in a series of tangible objects, “garments”, created from geotextiles.

“The structure of the individual works is based not only on the visuality of cadastral maps and their natural geometry, but also works with elements of human being, aesthetics and poetic semantics. Their visual conception is based on the importance of handicraft and material, layering and the procedural aspect of the matter play a role here,” adds Kundračíková and in one breath invites to the opening of the exhibition, which will take place at the Caesar Gallery on 2 April at 6:30 pm.

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