Publication details
ČS KONCEPT 70. LET
| Title in English | CS CONCEPT OF THE 70s |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | The arrival of conceptual art in the mid-1960s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of artworks towards personal, social, historical and often also theoreticizing contexts. In contrast to the art scene in the West, the conceptual approach of artists in Czechoslovakia was motivated by a more personal search for the essence of the relationship between artist and art, at the artistic level as well as the political-ethical, social or even ecological level. The turn towards conceptual art was thus not viewed as dematerialization and iconoclastic efforts but, rather, as a utopian escape from the official, state-controlled culture. It provided the artists with a free space which they worked with a wide range of media and subjects. Curators: Beata Jablonská, Denisa Kujelová a Jana Písaříková |