Karel Malich & utopian projects
16.10.2019 - 11.01.2020
Fait Gallery, Ve Vaňkovce 2, Brno
Opening: 16 October 2019 at 7pm
Curator: Denisa Kujelová
Exhibition architect: Tomáš Džadoň
Karel Malich’s utopian architectural projects result from his long-term fascination with ideas of space and their potential for the future needs of mankind. The artist has systematically recorded these visions since the 1960s, in the form of preparatory drawings, studies and provisional models. However, only a small proportion has seen three-dimensional execution, owing to the limited material possibilities and unfeasible technical requirements.
The ideas of utopian urbanism of future states and cities, as well as small-scale plans and buildings, were preceded, with Malich and further artists represented at the exhibition, Milan Knížák, Václav Cigler, Alex Mlynárčik and the VAL studio, Július Koller, Dalibor Chatrný, Stano Filko and Jozef Jankovič, not only by the rejection of the concept of the existing constructions and cities but, in particular, by radical criticism of the unfree society and the newly introduced ecological topics. The unprecedented progress of cosmic research advanced the visions of futurological worlds as well, including a strong emphasis on their social and environmental aspect.
