National Gallery Prague, Kinský Palace, Dec 17, 2008 – Feb 8, 2009 The Czech National Gallery is showing a photo exhibition, which is a reprise of an Austrian exhibition showed earlier last year in Vienna. The works on show are all taken from Bank Austria’s collection of photography. The show consists of a representative selection…
City Gallery Prague, Municipal Library Exhibition Space, Oct 22, 2008 – Feb 02, 2009 The exhibition focuses on an often neglected phenomenon of ‘classical’ academic painting in the twentieth century, which was surviving in the shade of all the ‘modern -isms’. Despised by art historians and ‘modern’ artists as shallow, meaningless and empty, yet still…
Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Sept 25, 2008 – Nov 28, 2008 The Chinese painting display in Rudolfinum was rather a disappointment. I want to stress that I mean the display. The featured superstar-artists names gave on show what you expected: Zhang Xiaogang’s existential portraits of individuals and families, drawing from recent Chinese historical experience, surrounded by…