Alma Mater Palaestra | New Town Hall in Prague
Palaestra is an association founded in 1999 on the initiative of boxer Jan Balog. The main task of the sports club is to enable meaningful time to be spent by children from socially disadvantaged families who could not afford to pay their children any hobby activities. At the same time, he regularly devotes himself to boxing training, the core of which consists of visual artists. In the last few years, the combination of sports and fine arts has also taken the form of exhibitions in the premises of the New Town Hall in Prague 2.
This year, the Palaestra will present two artistswho belong to the nestors of this group, sculptor Vojtěch Adamec and painter Ivan Komárek.
Vojtech Adamec, sculptor trained, to present at the exhibition not only his sculptures, but above all his paintings. In it, he focuses on an expressive and poetically conceived landscape, in which man moves as a lone observer, pilgrim or being from spiritual or mythical worlds. Sometimes it is embodied in the animal form and thus represents an archaic symbol of the primordial union of human civilization and its (now mostly lost) grounding in the ecological and spiritual balance of nature.
Ivan Komárek compiled a collection of new works, paintings, for the exhibition on canvas 100×150 cm, which are typical for their plastic language of the human body. The elastic, often grotesque, deformations that the human body goes through in its paintings make visible the various and ever-changing forms of the “relational landscape” of man. For him, the pictorial area is a scenographically conceived stage, on which interpersonal encounters take place, whether in the field of love or sports.
ADMISSION: full 50 CZK / reduced 20 CZK / family 100 CZK
OPENING HOURS: out – no 10-18 hours
between 12 – 13 hours 30 minutes lunch break
During EHD 2021 from 11 to 19 September 2020:
open daily 10 am – 8 pm / special entrance fee: single CZK 20
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