Words and Pictures Unleashed – Forms of Ecstasy in Russian Culture
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: April 20, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00
This summer an exhibition organised by the Museum of Czech Literature in cooperation with the VHL linked to what would have been Václav Havel’s 80th birthday will take place at Prague’s Letohrádek Hvězda (Star Summer Palace). Perhaps surprisingly, it will offer the first major presentation in the Czech Republic of the work of Dmitri Prigov, one of the most famous poets, visual artists and performers of Russian Conceptualism.
We will explore the views and strategies of Prigov (who as the creator of crocodiles for Soviet playgrounds became one of the most prominent and enigmatic Russian artists of the second half of the 20th century) in comparison not only with Havel’s Anticodes but above all with the works of a number of colleagues and adversaries in Russia and elsewhere.
Second evening in a series of lectures by Russian Studies expert Tomáš Glanc (Universität Zürich) entitled Living Souls II: Contemporary Russian Culture in Words and Images.