Mucha in the Valdštejnská riding school known and unknown. The exhibition shows the artist as a philosopher and creator of emotions | iRADIO
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Not only famous posters by Alfons Mucha, but also his designs, for example cookie boxes, lithographs and oil paintings. All of this filled the Valdštejnská jízdárna on the Lesser Side in Prague. The exhibition “Mucha, a family collection” started there, and as the name suggests – there are about 250 works from the private collection of the artist’s descendants. Including those that have never been exhibited before. The exhibition is open from July 15 to October 31, 2022.
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A unique and first ever officially exhibited exhibit is the bust named La Nuture /Nature/. It was first seen by the Paris Exhibitions in 1900, then it was owned by a family in Germany who, according to John Mucha, grandson of Alois Mucha, perhaps she had no idea who its author was. She thus managed to regain the Mucha Foundation.
The exhibition “Mucha, a family collection” presents the famous artist as a complex personality
Mucha’s relative is most proud of the comprehensive collection. “Here, we present Alfonso Mucha in a comprehensive way, as people may not even know him. He was an artist, a patriot, a mystic, and also a philosopher.” He told Radiožurnál during the presentation of the exhibition on Thursday 14.7.
“That is one strong moment of the exhibition. For me personally, the most important thing is that people see how comprehensive the family collection is and that we managed to maintain it despite the communist regime, despite the war period, and even today we are still expanding it,” he adds.
The exhibition is organized by the Mucha Foundation, founded years ago by John Mucha, and contains the largest collection of Mucha’s works in the world. It consists of up to four thousand exhibits. It was also supported by the Senate as part of the Czech presidency.
Her visit will be part of the program’s foreign delegation, which you will visit thanks to the Czech Presidency, and that there will be interest in her is evidenced by the leading words of the Senate Office, Jana Vohralíková:
“We tried it for the first time last weekend. There was a meeting of the presidents of the parliaments of the European committees. Despite the fact that the exhibition was still unfinished, it had a wonderful effect.’
Where philosophy and emotion meet
A new perspective on Alfons Mucha was also added to the architectural concept of the world by the well-known Eva Jiřičná, she wanted to be in the discussion, mainly to highlight the beauty, philosophy and emotional power of Mucha’s work, which I only discovered during the design of the exhibition.
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The form of the exhibition in the Valdštejnská jízdárna was designed by Eva Jiřičná in such a way that it would not be known that she had an architect and she decided to let the individual works that she placed in the giant space stand out.
Thus, the viewer cannot distinguish where the floor ends and where the walls of the vast Riding Hall begin, and this happens in Mucha’s magical and specific world. With this procedure, she revealed Jiřičná Mucha’s artistic and intellectual power and brilliant handling of detailed drawing and painting.
“You know, Alfons Mucha became famous all over the world not only for his work. He built his own style, his own system – and yes, his own world – and he hoped that people would accept him,” describes Jiřičná, adding that people accepted his form.
“Mucha succeeded, not everyone succeeds, but he succeeded. When I see what his beginnings were like, when he was more or less trying and that hand of his still couldn’t quite express what he wanted, then the bravura of his whole approach gradually set in, I wonder what a huge amount of work he had to do,” confided the world-famous architect and admitted that he realized this only when he began to study the paintings and think about how they would be displayed to present themselves to the audience.
Discovery of the Fly
“Even as a student, I looked at Mucha’s art deco and art nouveau in general with a bit of disdain. We still only functionalism and so on… so I didn’t take Mucha that seriously at the time, but when I came back to Bohemia in the nineties and saw his Slavic epic and now, when I discuss his work, I laugh at my attitude,” says Jiřičná.
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Also thanks to her concept of discovering Mucha herself, the audience at the exhibition will also experience this discovery of Mucha. The hall is divided by high panels into six parts. One contains works that present Alphonse Mucha as a cosmopolitan mystic as well as a patriot or philosopher.
“A person always enters a room that more or less represents a certain period of his life. People walk around the hall, which is also separated by color, so that it is clear that they are going from one period of life to another, and the colors change according to the different phases of Mucha’s life and work, thus introducing them to Alfons Mucha as a whole,” explains Eva Jiřičná .
She covered the entire floor of the Riding Hall with a light carpet that corresponds to the basic color of the panels with paintings, which seem to grow out of the ground and carry Mucha’s legacy.
“The floor of the Riding Hall is wooden and absorbs a lot of light. But we needed that light to be reflected. In this way, we will equalize the light levels so that it goes slowly and unobtrusively,” continues Eva Jiřičná, who reveals her intentions to the exhibition Mucha, family collection he added another important dimension – his own and unique view of the artist. This is also why the exhibition is interesting and belongs to the important projects of this year’s cultural year
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