전시회는 주한체코대사관의 공관차석 야나 할로우코바의 축사로 개막되었다.

 

 

슬로베니아 출신 사진작가 담얀 프레로브섹의 사진 작품 50여점을 선보이는 '프라하 성: 건축과 인테리어 디자인'전은 체코슬로바키아 초대 대통령 토마쉬 마사릭에 의해 임명된 슬로베니아 건축가 요제 플레취니크의 프라하 성의 건축물을 감상할 수 있는 기회이다.

Jože Plečnik (1872 - 1957) was the most significant Slovenian architect, urbanist and one of the founding members of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana. He studied with renowned Viennese architect and educator Otto Wagner and worked in Wagner's architecture office until 1900. He had a strong impact on the modern architecture of the Slovenian Capital Ljubljana. Besides in Slovenia he also worked in Austria, Serbia and Czech. In 1911, Plečnik moved to Prague, where he taught at the college of arts and crafts. The first Czechoslovakian president Tomáš G. Masaryk appointed him as a chief architect for the renovation of the Prague Castle. From 1920 until 1934 Plečnik completed numerous projects at the castle, including renovation of numerous gardens and courtyards, the design and installation of monuments and sculptures, and the design of numerous new interior spaces. He renovated the Prague Castle with the respect to the Czech history and traditions and avoided any foreign elements.  Concurrently, he also supervised the renovation of the presidential summer residence at Lány, where he mainly employed the existing furniture. Later on he moved back to Ljubljana on the invitation of another distinguished Slovenian architect Ivan Vurnik to teach architecture at the University of Ljubljana.

Damjan Prelovšek (담얀 프레로브셱)

1945년 슬로베니아 출생
예술사, 건축 박사
오스트리아 잘츠부르크 대학 건축과 교수
슬로베니아 과학 아카데미 건축과 과장
주체코 슬로베니아 대사 (1998-2002)
슬로베니아 문화부 유산보호국 국장
現 유럽 예술과학 아카데미 회원
現 유네스코(UNESCO) 회원으로 활동 중
- 프라하 포제브라드 지방Holy Heart 교회 유네스코 세계문화유산 등재
現 Maribor 대학, Ljubljana 사진대학 교수로 재직 중

The photographs of an Slovenian art historian Damjan Prelovšek give us insight into the renovation works of Jože Plečnik at the Prague Castle. Damjan Prelovšek (*1945, Ljubljana, Slovenia) studied history and history of art at the University of Ljubljana. After his graduation in 1969 he spent one year in Vienna as holder of the Herder post-graduate scholarship. He took his doctor's degree in 1977 with the theses focused on Jože Plečnik. In 1971 he started to work at the France Stele Institute of Art History at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 1995 he become the director of the institute .  In 1990, 1991 and 1996 he lectured as visiting professor at the University of Salzburg and in 1992 at the Middle European University in Prague. Since 1992 he has been a regular member of the European Academy of Science and Art, domiciled in Austria.  From 1998 to 2002 he was posted as Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in the Czech Republic. From 2006 till today he has been working as a director of the Department for the culture heritage at the Slovenian Ministry of Culture. His main field of research is the history of architecture from the baroque to the modern times especially the work and life of the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, about whom he published some books in Slovenia and abroad.