Museum Kampa: Exhibition Everyone can be an artist – paintings by disabled artists
It is always said that everyone was given something in their wine at birth. It is forgotten that something could have been taken away from someone in the process, which is why one lives medical handicap. Even ten but many does not prevent it from literally they shone in the field of art. It allows them to compete Anyone can be an artistwhich was organized by the Prague one for the second year Home Sulická for people with mental or combined disabilities.
Nationwide competition
“For several years, we organized in Kampa a small sales exhibition of our clients. She has always been a great success,” explains the director of the Sulická Home, Lenka Kohoutová. “Last year, we decided to produce a competition between Prague’s disabled. because it had a huge response, we decided to do a nationwide event. We did well. I dare say that works have come together, some of which are of top quality.”
»I feel good here«
In order to have a standard by which the works of art could be evaluated, a uniform theme was chosen for each. Painters were tasked with painting a place where they feel good, which they like. That’s why more than 100 paintings with a really diverse theme came together. The painters, ranging in age from small children to the elderly, painted cities, landscapes, autumn forests, ruins.
The competition was divided into 3 categories – under 30, over 30 and teams. In the over 30 category, Jakub Verich (31) scored in 3rd place, who imaginatively captured the Charles Bridge. However, she did not win the first place in this category Eva Moravcová (65), which is a client of the Sulická home in Prague. She painted the ruins of Hazmburk Castle with the sub-castle. For Blesk, she confided what actually led her to this motive.
“When I was young, I went to Hazmburk with my mother. We had a cottage there with an orchard where apricots grew. That’s why I thought of painting this,” she said, adding that now she doesn’t look at the landscape of her youth so often, that’s why she misses “I met a lot of good people there. I earned extra money picking apricots.” She has been a client of the Sulická home since she was 21 years old. He likes to spend his free time by watching TV or painting.
The winner of the competition, Eva Moravcová (65), remembered her youth in her painting – she painted Hazmburk Castle and its sub-castle.
Author: David Zima
“Similar paintings hang in my room. I like to paint and will of course participate again next year, I can’t miss that,” he insists resolutely. But she personally had to miss the opening and award presentation, because at the last minute she fell ill with the coronavirustherefore, communication did not take place face to face, but by phone. But hers took over the award for her best friend Iva Langrová (45). it’s me passionate painter and coincidentally also a client of the Sulická home in Prague’s Krč. She painted a castle in the countryside.
Iva Langrová (45) is a client of the Sulická home. She submitted her painting of a countryside with a castle to the competition.
Author: David Zima
“Compared to Prague, which seems so noisy and dusty to meI like the countryside plants, meadow and silence,” confided the painter, who, among other things, also plays the drum and travels around the country with a band. “I like to travel away from home, although I really like it there. I’ve been there for five years now, it’s quiet there.”
“Nice Town, Bad War”
Silvie Konradová (34), who is autistic, painted herself on a swing, while Alina Goltsova (22), for example, recognized homesickness – she painted Kharkiv, which is watched over by the Guardian Angel. “Is ta very nice city, but now there is a bad war. Guardian cat angel watches over grandma, no matter the war ends. Grandma and dad stayed in Ukraine, I’m sorry,” the young artist presented her painting, which is full of scenes from the Ukrainian city.
Alina Goltsova (22) recalled her beloved Kharkiv as part of the competition. He is now plagued by war.
Author: David Zima
First place in the under 30 category went to Jan Beseda for his painting U hasičů. He was followed by Tomáš Procházka (21) and his painting S Janička ve stacík, and finally Boris Dvořák (14) with his painting Autumn in the Forest I. In the over 30 category, after Eva Moravcová, Zuzana Cahová (36) was placed with her painting S catkou peseli and finally Jakub Verich with the already mentioned Charles Bridge. In the collective category, Marián Ježek (36) and Petr Kukliš (57) scored points with the painting Square. The public could vote on the Facebook page of the Sulická home and chose the paintings Na sídlišti by Jana Oupěchová (13), Michal Potůček and his painting Sea II and finally the collective of the workshop of the Brtníky home called Ovocný strom.
Art at home
The vast majority of paintings on display at the exhibition can be taken home. At the end of the exhibition, they will be auctioned in the frameand online charity auction. It will happen October 10 in the evening. All proceeds for each individual image will go to its creator and will thus serve to improve the quality of their lives, which are not entirely easy.
“Anyone who wants to have a painting at home for pleasure, and wants to do a good deed, to help such a disabled artist, can buy it. He will fill a white wall at home and still do a good deed,” exhorts Jiří Pospíšil, who is the chairman of the board of directors of the Jan and Meda Mládkov Foundation, which manages Museum Kampa, but was also chairman of the evaluation committeewhich decided on the winning paintings.
Meda took it hard that she did not have children, revealed Pospíšil. What were her last moments? Pavlína Horáková
A difficult fate
He therefore let himself be heard about how difficult it was to decide between individual paintings in terms of awards. “Many of those works of art are extremely high quality and interesting. a lot of that an artist is not made by college, but by talent and imagination, a reflection of his soul and personality. In this regard, the name of the competition is fully valid, that Anyone can truly be an artist, regardless of handicapbecause how many times have I wondered whether this was really the creation of an autodidact, or whether a given painting was pushed to us by a professional.”
Another office decoration?
A well-known actor accompanied the opening of the works of art Jan Antonín Duchoslav, and patronage of the entire exhibition was provided by Prague 2, the municipality of hl. also has Prague 1, on whose territory Museum Kampa is located. Therefore, the mayor of Prague 1, Petr Hejma (My co tady žejeme/STAN), who is known as an art lover, did not miss the event. After all, while Blesku could boast, like many other Prague mayors, of an office, he had walls furnished with various artistic photographs and. Won’t there be one among them?
“Although it concerns the works of artists who are handicapped in some way, they are amazing what beautiful pictures they can create,” he did not hide the enthusiasm with which he admitted that he would definitely participate in the October auction. Which painting is his personal favorite will probably surprise few. “I can’t help but choose when it’s here, painting with the theme of Prague 1. This is exactly the image of Iveta Vlčková (44) with the theme of Hradčany, where she beautifully portrayed the view of the Vltava, Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. It is an image that immediately captured my heart.”
This painting by Iveta Vlčková is a favorite of Prague 1 mayor Petr Hejma. I would like to bid for it in a charity auction.
Author: David Zima
where: Museum Kampa – Konírna hall, U Sovových mlýnů 2 – Malá Strana.
When: Until October 10, 2022, every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission: Loosely.
It is possible to try the exhibition of paintings of the disabled in the premises of the Kampa Museum. The exhibition will be followed by a charity auction.
Author: David Zima