Jiří Šalamoun / Who has not seen, will not believe, believe me Kampa Museum
Family exhibition in the Kampa Museum – Jiří Šalamoun: Whoever has not seen, will not believe, believe me! is extended until the end of October due to great interest
A lecture with Michaela Režová (UMPRUM) Animated Film in the 1970s and 1980s is prepared on Wednesday, September 29 at 6:00 pm. . Attendance at the lecture and screening must be booked in advance at: [email protected].
The living legend of book illustration and animated film, professor emeritus and long-time head of the illustration and book graphics studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague Jiří Šalamoun (* 1935) became known to several generations mainly as the author of Maxips Fík’s artistic form. The benevolent talking dog from the cartoon animated evening has literally become a national hero in the last forty years, and as such, a substantial part of the exhibition has just been dedicated to him in the author’s most extensive retrospective exhibition at the Kampa Museum.
However, Jiří Šalamoun is by no means the creator of a single opus: he was the artist of a number of other animated films, created dozens of free lithographs and posters, and also published two collections of poems and one collection of dream recordings. Above all, however, he edited the graphics and accompanied more than a hundred books published not only in our country, but also in Germany or Poland. His most notable achievements include JF Cooper’s The Last Mohican, Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Club Chronicle, The History of the City of Houpětín Saltykov-Ščedrin, Hobbit by JJR Tolkien, Funeral Songs by JJ Ryba and Murders in Morgue EA Poea. It is the criminal and horror genre, mystery and magic that are among the authors’ most popular topics, which also appear in his author’s books and free lithographs, often processed in the form of comics.
The main ingredient of Solomon’s illustrations is primarily humor – mostly a little sly and subversive – they are also skeptical and at the same time oversight of the trifles of life, generous imagination and a pedantic sense of detail. The history of twentieth-century everyday life is reflected in his work as in a mirror maze that comically amplifies some aspects of reality.
Solomon’s unmistakable distinctive manuscript mixes the ruthless spontaneity of children’s drawings with the naive sentimentality of folk paintings and the cruel straightforwardness of the tables of shopkeeper’s songs. Solomon is an author above others creative (he chooses a unique artistic language for each subject), playful (discovering new paths makes him childish happy), honest (he thoroughly analyzes the topic) and inventive. it is born gradually, after the study the first situational drawings come, the form of the illustration is still more precise and in the course there is often a general redrawing “in one go”, wrote his method Josef Kroutvor.
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