{"id":13340,"date":"2025-07-08T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/exhibition\/7070-jan-merta-josef-pleskot-3\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T08:43:19","slug":"7070-jan-merta-josef-pleskot-3","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/exhibition\/7070-jan-merta-josef-pleskot-3\/","title":{"rendered":"70+70: Jan Merta + Josef Pleskot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two prominent personalities of Czech culture &ndash; the painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/artists\/jan-merta-\">Jan Merta<\/a> (born 4 December 1952) and the architect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/artists\/josef-pleskot-\">Josef Pleskot<\/a> (born 3 December 1952) &ndash; are both celebrating their important birthdays by holding a joint exhibition at Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklen&aacute;\u0159 under the title of 70 + 70. However, their artistic activities at Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklen&aacute;\u0159, where they have collaborated on projects more than once, were not the first time their paths crossed &ndash; they are linked by long years of friendship and also by a mere one-day difference in their birthdates.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAt what is his seventh exhibition at Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklen&aacute;\u0159, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/artists\/jan-merta-\">Jan Merta<\/a> is presenting paintings he only finished this year and have thus never before been seen by the public.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/artists\/josef-pleskot-\">Josef Pleskot<\/a> designed for Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklenar an unusual architectural transformation of the gallerist&rsquo;s study, and he also installed the pre-Christmas exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/exhibitions\/395-my-dear-christ-child-the-scene-is-set\">My Dear Christ Child: The Scene Is Set<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/artists\/josef-pleskot-\">Josef Pleskot<\/a> has been collaborating with Galerie Zden\u011bk Sklen&aacute;\u0159 on an ongoing basis for many years. Amongst other things, he created the designs for modifying the private &ndash; but accessible to the public &ndash; spaces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/other-activities\/artworks-in-public-space\/12-vaclav-cigler--studanka-2011--1art\">1 ar(t)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdeneksklenar.cz\/en\/other-activities\/architectural-installations\/10-josef-pleskot-2art\">2 ar(t)<\/a> in Litomy&scaron;l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13340","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/13340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriesklenar.devwp.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}