Prague will be able to put the Slavic epic in the thumb of Savarin for 25 years
The developer and Welwyn company, or one of its companies, will be in charge of the operation and management. This follows from the draft agreement between Prague, Nadac Mucha and Welwyn, which the councilors approved today.
The cycle consists of 20 large rafts, which Alfons Mucha has been painting since 1910 for 18 years. Since last year, they have been connected to Moravský Krumlov for five years, where the exhibition center was in the past.
The lease term will be 25 years and the capital will have an option to extend the lease term by five years, under the same conditions, unless the city and the developer agree otherwise.
According to the agreement, Welwyn completed the construction of the exhibition within three years of obtaining a final decision on the location of the construction of the Savarin thumb. The land decision was issued in June 2020, but has not yet come first.
The agreement brings an end to a long-running dispute between John Mucha and the city’s main ownership. In the case of signing the agreement, according to her, Mucha agrees to acknowledge ownership of the city in full and withdraw the proceedings within 30 days of signing.
Prague, on the other hand, concludes that the paintings should not be moved elsewhere than into its own exhibition spaces, intended only for the epic, as Alfons Mucha intended.
The part of the exhibition will be a space for the state of the family collection. However, days from the other tables of the exhibition will not be able to ruin the artistic impression of the epic from both a technical and artistic point of view.
According to the document, where the epic will be, it should be 23 meters long and less than 60 meters long. Pltna should be placed against each other, there will be about fifteen meters of space between them.
Vtek will go to traffic and start the exhibition at first
The expense from the operation of the exhibition, ie from the sale of tickets and other activities, will be the operator for Prague, or the Gallery of the Capital City, and the Mucha Foundation. Pensions will be used to cover the cost of operation and initial exposure.
According to the document, the costs of operating the exhibition are set at 539 crowns per square meter. They include, among other things, estimated costs for employees, including security and safety, gossip, which includes any restaurant and long-term monitoring, or marketing.
The first 11 rafts of the epic were exhibited in the Prague Clementine in 1919, and in 1920 and 1921 they took a shower at exhibitions in New York and Chicago.
The whole epic was first exhibited in 1928 in the Fair Thumb in Prague and the paintings of the sawmill under the first gallery of the Capital City of Prague.
In 1933, the board was rolled up and placed in a deposit. And in 1963 it was again exhibited at the castle in Moravský Krumlov. After 1989, however, he lost his temper, where the two shared, among other things, ironmongery.