Dialogue of Introduction
30.04.22 – 31.05.22
Open daily: 10:00 – 19:00
*Changes in opening hours:
April 30 until 17:00
May 12 until 18:00
May 24 until 18:00
Admission
| Full | 150 CZK |
| Reduced (children aged 10–15, students up to 26 with valid ISIC/ITIC, seniors over 65, holders of disability cards) | 75 CZK |
| Reduced (Students of art schools) | 50 CZK |
| Family (1–2 adults with 1–3 children under 15) | 200 CZK |
Children under 10, holders of membership cards of the Association of Museums and Galleries of the Czech Republic, and companions of disabled visitors (ZTP/P) have free admission.
On Friday, April 29 at 18:00, the exhibition of works by Vladimír Komárek and Lucie Gelemová will be opened.
The title of the exhibition stems from the idea that every person engages in a dialogue with everything around them from birth. Only some, especially artists, manage to capture this process in their work and give it a form that, in its three-dimensionality—art, architecture, faith—deserves to withstand the test of time.
And it is precisely this “right to endure” that allows us, through their works, to enter, return, and suddenly find ourselves in the distant past and experience forgotten moments with such intensity, just like those who lived long before us. With the hope, of course, that the future will avoid repeating humanity’s worn-out mistakes.
The exceptional nature of such works allows them to live on in this message, even though their creators are no longer among us.
Such is the work of Master Vladimír Komárek, who in his empty chairs, open windows, hearts in cupboards, and bundles of dried flowers, violins without players … captured the essence of simple things for all current and future generations, and adorned them with the patina of words.
These things tell their own story—and the story within them—because they lived, because they embodied the magic of necessity, joy, and beauty, and in their simplicity created happy lives for people.
And because it is not “mountains that meet, but people,” we came to know, thanks to Felix Slováček, the painter and above all graphic artist of unique talent, Lucie Gelemová.
Her work, the second part of the Dialogue of Encounter exhibition, seems to invite living people to sit on Komárek’s empty chairs, to place living flowers in the empty pots, and to look out through the half-open windows toward and beyond the horizon … simply all the way there.
And this life-giving process, always connected to the hope and desire of youth, speaks to us with the most pressing and ever-repeating question: “Are we living our lives in such a way as to defend, day by day, their rebirth?”
Are we not merely figures on the ladders of Komárek’s paintings, climbing to take our place on the Calvary of today’s world?
And it must be said that the answer hidden in the graphic prints of Lucie Gelemová asks all of us: “What do we live our lives for?”
The dialogue between Lucie Gelemová and Master Vladimír Komárek stretches across a spectrum of questions and answers, blending the Master’s experience with Lucie’s search for paths. All of this forms a unified whole that grows stronger over time, where one enhances the strength of the other. Together, they affirm the indestructibility of human existence.
František Mareš
