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 The Embassy Gallery is located in the representative premises of the Czech Embassy in Helsinki and  can be visited on working days from 8.30 to 16.30, upon previous appointment.

Bonfire Of Imagination

The medium of painting works in the exhibition Natürlich as a teleport to art pieces from the oldest and the longest-running historical stage of prehistory to contemporary digital imagery.

On our adventurous journey across different cultures, we find ourselves in a landscape free of civilization, where animals and plants hold the function of life. The landscape, which is a timeless universe, can be perceived as The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch or as a vision of a post-apocalyptic future. The sources helping us to get a closer knowledge of the environment are the material art works of cultures of different stages of human development. Through the exhibition we meet, among others, the first land art work “Spiral Jetty” made by Robert Smithson in 70’s.

 The only biological relic of humanity is the female pelvis and hand prints from the Cueva de las Manos cave in Argentina which according to the latest scientific research also refers to a female.

“How can I live without you, how forgo

Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined,

To live again in these wild woods forlorn?

Should God create another Eve, and I

Another rib afford, yet loss of thee

Would never from my heart.”

Paradise Lost, John Milton

Rocks and shelters maybe for animals or people? Looking mysterious - …. and in the same time inviting us inside by trapped traps in the form of spiral stones which U want to pick and hold them in your hand. Magical atmosphere but at the same time I feel like in a computer game environment. What does the turquoise mask on the wall say? Amphora, bowls and small vase are tempting to pick it. And play it. Game to be continued.

Homo habilis - a person fully dependent on nature who began to use found objects.

Zapletal keeps the fire of imagination through his dedication to the painter's craft and the sensible perception of the issue of ecology. The landscape is the basis but Zapletal is also interested in what is part of it - the Man and his activities in nature.

 The exhibition "Naturlich" is reflection of the human development, its political, religious and cultural history.

 “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

J. Milton

 

Curator:  Barbora Kachlíková