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GALLERY,
SPOL. S R. O., WAS FOUNDED IN AUGUST 1995,
AS AN AGENCY AND PUBLISHING HOUSE
SPECIALISING IN THE VISUAL ARTS.
ITS ACTIVITY CAN BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN AREAS:
ORGANISATION
OF EXHIBITIONS INCLUDING ALL RELEVANT PRINTING, PUBLI-CATIONS AND PUBLICITY
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Josef
Lada, Riding School of Prague Castle,
1st Sept 1998 – 3rd Jan 1999, in cooperation
with the National Gallery
in Prague and the Prague
Castle Administration,
180,000 visitors
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The
Stories of Jiří Kolář,
Trade Fair Palace, 21st Dec 1999 – 16th March
2000,
in cooperation with the National
Gallery in Prague
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Karel
Trinkewitz / Life is a Collage, Mánes
Gallery,
Prague, 5th-29th August 1999
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Libor
Krejcar / Landscapes of Memory, Mánes
Gallery,
Prague, 13th July – 6th August 2000
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The
Stories of Jiří Kolář, Pražák
Palace, Brno, 15th Sept – 19th Nov 2000, in
cooperation
with the Moravian Gallery
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Milan
Knížák / To Nowhere with Joy, Mánes Gallery,
Prague, 21st Oct – 19th Nov 2000; and others.
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Zdeněk
Burian, Prague Castle Riding Hall, 1st April – 10th
July 2005
Gallery in cooperation with the Administration of Prague Castle
An exhibition held under the auspices of the Czech President Mr
Václav Klaus
PUBLICATION
ACTIVITY
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illustrated
narratives: URBS AUREA / The Prague of Emperor Rudolf II; Gloria
et Miseria 1618 – 1648 / Prague during the Thirty Years War;
Prague
1900 – 2000 / A Hundred Years of the City of a Hundred Towers;
Czech, English, German; all prizewinners in the Most Beautiful Book
of the Year Awards
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catalogues
for exhibitions of the National
Gallery in Prague:
The Bride in the Closed Garden
(Czech, English, 1995), Italian
Renaissance Drawing (Czech, English, 1995), Mountains and Rivers without End... (1966), The
Picture Gallery in Bohemia (1996), Czech
Collage (Czech, English, 1997) and others
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catalogues
for exhibitions organised by the Prague
Castle Administration: Anatolské
koberce
II.
(1998), Anatolian
Carpets III (Czech, English, 2000), William Blake (Czech, English,
2000)
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catalogues,
monographs and other publications for exhibitions by Gallery:
Josef
Lada, Obrázky Josefa Lady, Ezopské
bajky (facsimile for original publication of 1931), Pohádka
o Honzíčkovi a zlatovlasé Isole (facsimile for original
publication of 1906) – all 1998; Josef Hlaváček / The Stories of
Jiří Kolář (monograph 1999, catalogue of the same name 2000),
Karel
Trinkewitz / Život je koláž (Czech-German edition, 1999),
Libor
Krejcar / Landscape of the Memory (Czech-English edition,
2000)
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amongst
other publications: Ladislav Novák / Osm básní pro Acnavi (1997), Jiří
Kolář / Slovník metod (1999), Karl
H. Pribram / Mozek a mysl (library of Foundation
VIZE 97, 1999), Petr Pavlík / Pilgrim (Czech-English edition,
2000)
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Ivo
Medek (Kopaninský) / Excavated –
Exposed
(catalogue for exhibition of the same name, 2000)
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Milan
Knížák / Actions for which at least some documentation remains,
1962-1996 (Czech,
English, 2000) …
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Jan
Reich / Disappearing Prague
(Czech,
English, German, 2000),
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Life
in Black and White (library of Good Will – Olga Havlová
Foundation, Czech, English, 2000),
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J.
A. Rimbaud,
(Czech,
2000),
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The
Pyramid, the Prism and the Arc, Czech Cubist Architecture 1911-1923
(Czech,
English, 2000).
ORGANISATION
OF ART COLLECTIONS collection
of Czech prints from the 1960s, 320 works by 126 artists,
Česká spořitelna, a. s., headquarters, 1996;
collection "Czech Collage", c 50 works by 20 artists,
Česká spořitelna, a. s., "Albatros" building, 1998;
collection "Czech Collage", c 90 works by 35 artists,
Pražská plynárenská, a. s., 1997 - 2000;
selection of paintings for the collections of the companies Ford
CZ, d plus, Eltodo…
COMMERCIAL
PRINTS OF THE HIGHEST GRAPHIC AND POLYGRAPHIC QUALITY
(calendars,
annual reports, in-house magazines, invitations, New Year greetings,
designs for logotype etc. for the following companies: CIBA Vision,
Cisco Systems, Česká spořitelna, Czech Television, Dálniční stavby Praha,
d plus, Eltodo, EXPO 2000, Helika, Chemapol, Inženýring dopravních staveb,
Metroprojekt, Metrostav, Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97,
National Gallery, National Museum, Pražská plynárenská, Museum of Decorative
Arts, Via Perfecta, Committee of Good Will - Olga Havlová Foundation,
Czech society of Oncology - ČSL JEP, Edison, Roche, Schering-Plough,
etc.).
Gallery
draws on the talents of leading Czech printmakers (Clara Istlerová,
Rostislav Vaněk, Milan Jaroš, Joska Skalník, Aleš Krejča, Světla Kořánová,
Petr Babák, Jan Solpera, Zdeněk Ziegler, David Fírek, Michal Cihlář,
Miroslav Kloss, Martin Balcar...),, photographers and other visual artists,
renowned art experts (Josef Hlaváček, Pavla Pečinková, Jan Rous, Olaf
Hanel, Vladimír Karfík, Petr Wittlich, Karel Srp, Lenka Bydžovská, Polana
Bregantová...) and the expert services of a number of social analysis
and marketing agencies.
Director
of Gallery: Jaroslav Kořán,
graduate of the Film Faculty of the Aca-demy of Performing Arts, film-maker,
translator, photographer, former Mayor of the City of Prague (1990 -
1991).
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