subscribe to our newsletterCondition Report: New Photographic Art from the Czech Republic
Kateřina Držková, Vojtěch Fröhlich, Květoňovi (Radek and Zdeněk Květoň), Jan Měřička and Tereza Příhodová
Condition Report features the work of Katerina Držková, Vojtech Fröhlich, Kvetonovi (Radek and Zdenek Kveton), Jan Mericka and Tereza Príhodová; a group of emerging artists associated with the Department of Photography at FAMU (the School of Film and Television of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. Their work spans a range of contemporary art practices that are all in some way rooted in photography. Exploiting the physicality of the photographic image and even taking away the use of the camera, Condition Report presents a fresh perspective on photography’s relationship to wider contemporary art practices.
As one of the EU’s newest members, the Czech Republic has experienced profound social and economic changes in recent years. The work shown in Condition Report reflects the wider globalising influences at play after years of communist control. The Czech Republic has an incredibly rich photographic tradition, but the work presented here challenges the notion that there are cultural tendencies specific to that nation.
These younger Czech artists share certain characteristics in their approach to making work, such as playful experimentation and the ability to combine traditional and modern processes of image making to transform the everyday and mundane into the extraordinary. It could be argued that they bring to their work a particular Czech sensibility, but more pertinently the featured artists are connected intellectually to the ideas and influences of a wider international art scene that reflects the New European zeitgeist.
The project has been developed through a partnership between Ffotogallery and the European Centre of Photographic Research, University of Wales Newport.
Previous Exhibition Dates: Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 30 Oct — 11 Dec 2010 Hoopers Gallery, London, 4 Feb — 11 March 2011
- Content: Kateřina Držková — Objet Invisible, 2005 23 x Digital prints mounted on foamex, 10 x 15cm; Vojtěch Fröhlich — Modřanská Ravine, 2006 5 x Mixed media (black and white photographs on silver bromide paper, rubbed-in natural pigments), framed
- Space required: Approx 75 linear metres
- Publicity: Reviews in Source magazine and Blown magazine
- Hire fee: £2000 + VAT
- Availability: Currently available
For further information, please contact:
David Drake, Ffotogallery, c/o Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road , Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
T: (029) 2034 1667 F: (029) 2034 1667 E: info [at] ffotogallery.org