On Thursday 24th May, 2016, the Prague gallery VI PER opened the exhibition Black Maria, conceived by the PAF Head Programmer Martin Mazanec. The installation of this exhibition project that presents diverse (non)standard architectural solutions for film screening was designed by Dominik Garajský.
Today, the art of the moving image employs a number of different, more or less standard ways of presentation. Black Maria exhibits 16 illustrations of technical and spatial solutions for the screenings of artworks that were crucial for the history of the moving image in the last hundred years. These will be exhibited by two in the course of eight weeks. Eight installations will thus show the historic changes in the approach to film screening and the related architectures. Special events connected to the topic will take place throughout the duration of the exihibition.
Schedule of designs exhibited:
Installation 1 / May 25–28
László Moholy-Nagy, Polykino (1925) / Emil Radok a Josef Svoboda, Pražské jaro (1958)
Installation 2 / June 1–4
Walter Gropius, Totaltheater (1927) / OMA, Prada Transformer (2009)
Installation 3 / June 8–11
Robert Smithson, Cinema Cavern (1971) / Dan Graham, Cinema (1981)
Installation 4 / 15–18
Marcel Duchamp, Anémic Cinéma (1926) / Bruce Nauman, Video Corridor for San Francisco (Come Piece) (1969)
Installation 5 / June 22–25
Frederick Kiesler, Film Guild Cinema (1929) / Paul Sharits, Epileptic Seizure Comparison (1976)
Installation 6 / June 29–July 2
Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis a Edgard Varèse, The Philips Pavilion (1958) / John Cage, Lejaren Hiller a Ronald Nameth, HPSCHD (1969)
Installation 7 / July 6–9
Claes Oldenburg, Moveyhouse (1965) / Hollis Frampton, A Lecture (1968)
Installation 8 / July 13–16
Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973) / Breath (2004)
Interiér kina Film Guild Cinema postaveného Frederickem Kieslerem v New York City na konci 20. let minulého století.
ČERNÁ MARIE
VI PER, Vítkova 2, Praha
vernisáž: 24. 5. 2016, 19:00
výstava: 25. 5. – 16. 7. 2016
koncepce: Martin Mazanec
instalační řešení: Dominik Garajský
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