Music, film, theater, painting, sculpture, photography and more in Prague, Central Europe and a few other places as well.
Crepuscular: the ruins of modern times
Romanian photographer Serban Bonciocat’s images of industrial ruins give Czechs a chance to look anew at their own industrial past
Viktor Ullmann: Musical triumph out of tragedy
Czech composer Viktor Ullmann was killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz; new performances give his music a new and vibrant life
Alexander Kluge in Prag
Work of Alexander Kluge, among the boldest filmmakers and writers of the past 50 years, as well as being a key figure in New German Cinema, gets Prague showing
It is not uncommon to find artists who came to film from work in other mediums. Some are painters turned filmmakers, while others turned to film from work in theater or writing. German filmmaker Alexander Kluge’s path to film was as strikingly different as his work continues to prove itself. Just having turned 80 years old, Kluge is as radical as ever, and could still serve as a signpost for the young generation of filmmakers.
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Photo - ‘Miscellaneous News,’ 1986, © Alexander Kluge
![Photo - Untitled [ Skeleton ] by Jindřich Heisler, c. 1943. Gelatin silver print with hand-applied color, Art Institute of Chicago](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3nrn0YYuc1qicm56o1_400.jpg)
Photo - Untitled [ Skeleton ] by Jindřich Heisler, c. 1943. Gelatin silver print with hand-applied color, Art Institute of Chicago
A poster for a recent production of Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis
From an exhibition of Czechoslovak socialist realism taking place in Udine, Italy
Jindřich Heisler and the afterlife of things
“He was very creative in using photography to get at other things, like making sculptural table top arrangements and photographing them, and then disappearing the arrangements because, in the end, as he himself wrote, that wasn’t what counted. What counted was the image of things. And that gets your mind thinking in a certain way about replicability, reproducibility, about the afterlife of things,” said curator of the Art Institute’s department of photography Matthew S. Witkovsky.
Witkovsky cited an image of a tiny, miniature rake with burning candles in the holes where the tines would be. “It almost looks like a menorah of sorts. With those candles lighted on a bed of very flamable straw, so when those candles burn down not only will the object disappear it will be ruined – but you have the photograph.”
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