My Memory is Nothing But Sorrow - Špalíček Gallery by Dominik Adamec and Anna Zemánková 20.9.2024 - 17.11.2024Curator: Mira Macík

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The title of the exhibition My Memory is Nothing But Sorrow refers to the life and work of artists who are separated by two generations: the painter Anna Zemánková (1908-1986), for whom art became the only escape at a time of personal crisis, and the sculptor Dominik Adamec (1995), whose works reflect the unnecessary losses caused by man himself. In the series that the artist presents at Špalíček, he indirectly responds to the work of Anna Zemánková with references to extinct species of animals, which, however, due to the temporal distance from the present, appear as abstract as the morphology of fictional plants and organic shapes of the artist's works. Dominic Adamec was inspired by Dodos auf der Flucht: Requiem für ein verlorenes Bestiarium (Dodos on the Run: Requiem for a Lost Bestiary), a collection of poems and prose by German author Mikael Vogel, which focuses on the extinction of species and the man-made reduction of the Earth's biodiversity.

In a broader global and historical context, the exhibition thus follows the theme of the Prostějov Contemporary Art Festival, which is memory.

– Mira Macík