{"id":13184,"date":"2025-07-08T08:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/exhibition\/josef-capek-eight-linocuts-100-years\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:43:18","slug":"josef-capek-eight-linocuts-100-years","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/exhibition\/josef-capek-eight-linocuts-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Josef \u010capek: Eight Linocuts, 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

FREE GUIDED TOURS in Czech Language
\nWe cordially invite you to join Zden\u011bk Sklená\u0159 as he leads you through the exhibition
\n5 October 2019 at 11 am
\nDue to limited capacity, please confirm your participation by sending an email at least 5 days before the event starts: event@zdeneksklenar.cz<\/a>  <\/p>\n

\nThe third exhibition at Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklená\u0159 is Josef \u010capek: Eight Linocuts, 100 Years. This relates to one of the most valuable series in Czech graphic art history. Made in 1919, the series has never been comprehensively presented. The Eight Linocuts album is the first result of \u010capek’s collaboration with Josef Florian’s publishing house in Stará \u0158íše. Josef Florian and Bohuslav Reynek established contact with \u010capek towards the end of 1917 in connection with his first literary work, Lelio, and also noticed his graphic works published in the Die Aktion revue. Reynek was so impressed by the linocuts \u010capek made to accompany Apollinaire’s Zone, that he asked the artist to illustrate his translation of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, which was due to be published by Stará \u0158íše. Subsequently, in early 1919, \u010capek offered Florian several graphic works in the event that they might be a suitable artistic accompaniment to the Nova et vetera anthologies, but Florian actually compiled them in a separate album that was published as a Dobré dílo (Good Works) edition. Specifically, they consist of figural motifs, many of them containing references to the best-know works of Cubist painting.
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\nIn spring 1919, Josef \u010capek wrote to the publisher Josef Florian: “I am sending you several carvings, all of which are for you, but select only those that you would like for your publication and dispose of the rest. I was limited by the fairly small format; I made those tiny birds just in case you needed something to fill in empty space below a poem, or other similar cases. So please feel free to do with these carvings as you see fit and according to how best they suit your needs; I will send you some more later…”<\/p>\n

According to the gallerist Zden\u011bk Sklená\u0159: “The series is legendary chiefly from literature and individual specimens appear only rarely. They are a part of our history and belong to the main series dating back to when Czechoslovakia was first established. He goes on to add: “They are also my personal contribution and thanks to all those who keep these rarest of jewels in their entirety.”<\/p>\n

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