My first gallery to visit during my three week stay in Prague was the Dox Centre for Contemporary Art. This stunning multi-functional space created - thanks to a private initiative - through the reconstruction of a former factory in the Holesovice district of the city.
The Dox mission statement is ... to create a space for research, presentation and debate on important social issues, where the visual arts, literature, performing arts and other disciplines encourage a critical view of the so-called reality of today's world ...
The Dox mission statement is ... to create a space for research, presentation and debate on important social issues, where the visual arts, literature, performing arts and other disciplines encourage a critical view of the so-called reality of today's world ...
The Stanislay Libensky Award 2016
... an international competitive glassmaking exhibition - presenting the best work
of graduates of European art colleges who used glass in their degree projects ...
Collection 49 - Johanne Jahnke - Denmark
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Fishing - Lukas Houdek - Czech Republic
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Transcendence - Katrina Malling - Denmark
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from the series Memories - Nataliya Vladychko - Netherlands
Emerge - Odelia Leuchter - Ukraine
Subduction - Jean Thebault - France
Constructed Memory : 1920 - Michelle Ryan - Ireland
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Times - Ebibi Salomee - France
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Nested Memories - Rafael Rosales - Czech Republic
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Hide and Seek - Nozomi Deguchi - Netherlands
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Zeitimpuls - Susanne Kunkel - Germany
In Search of Hope - Claire Peters - Austria
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Prisoners - Ieva Gaine - Latvia
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Then it's down a floor to the All Hail Sport exhibition ...
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Race: NSU Motorcycle Installation - Tomas Dzadon - Czech republic
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Family ready for departure - Karel Nepras - Czech Republic
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Marathon Runners - layered cardboard - Ivan Komarek - Czech Republic
Ball Magician - fibreglass - Zdenek Nemecek - Czech Republic
The Runner - dyed polyester - Petr Holub - Czech Republic
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The Sports Epic series by Michael Rittstein
acrylic on canvas
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Gemini - dyed polyester - Petr Holub - Czech Republic
" ... today when more and more people tend to think dangerously alike,
art's capacity to suspend, even for a moment, our habitual ways of seeing
maybe its greatest value ... "
The Dox was a super gallery with two very interesting exhibitions - especially the glass - I hope my photgraphy did them both justice.
My next blog will feature one of my favourite wandering pastimes - visiting a place usually void of tourists - and on what better a day to visit than when the heavens are grey and overcast and damp - stay tuned ...
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