"In the course of almost thirty years, the photographer Ivan Pinkava (b. 1961) has created his own distinctive visual language, which can reasonably identified with his own way of thinking about the world. The figures and still lifes in his works intertwine. . They are a modern mirroring of deeper thought processes following on from the language of traditional Western culture. Pinkava intentionally enters well-known iconographic situations in order to change them, sometimes inconspicuously, sometimes radically, jumbling, renaming, emptying, veiling, or making them stand out in another light. He blurs conventional meanings concealed behind the names of classical and biblical figures. In historical settings he finds something common to the present and future and true to both - namely, prefigurations of human uncertainty stemming from our own physical transitoriness. The author of the introductory essay, Petr Vaňous, is an art historian, critic, and curator."--P. 4 of cover.

Drawing heavily on painterly traditions of portraiture, the Czech photographer Ivan Pinkava (born 1961) has created an immediately recognizable photographic style. This volume, the first of two published for his winter 2012 exhibition at the University Museum of the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, offers the most comprehensive account of his career to date.

This series of paintings by Hynek Martinec illustrates the conceptually formulated puzzle based on a fictional story of an attempt in the first half of the 18th century, to build a Baroque cathedral in Iceland and decorate it with paintings. K. I. Dientzenhofer had not built the church there in the end, but the alleged series of pictures designed for Iceland is exhibited here. About thirty paintings and drawings are in fact related to many works of the collection of Baroque art of the National Gallery in Prague. In many respects, this artist? s re-interpretations and paraphrases result in a new reading of the original models, at the same time presenting a number of questions related to the positions of present-day painting and the role of the context.00Exhibition: National Gallery in Prague, Sternberg Palace, Prague, Czech Republic (27.04. - 26.08.2018).