Guided tour and film screening at the cinema as part of the Kurt Gebauer exhibition.

As part of the screening, we will show three films:

Gentle Aggression

The playful work of sculptor Kurt Gebauer called for a playful approach to it as well. Not that director Petr Lokaj’s documentary wasn’t meant to be taken seriously or that it belittled anything, but Gebauer’s swimmers and flying nudes inspired the filmmaker to create an imaginative—and at times even comical—portrayal of the sculptor and his work. A native of Hradec nad Moravicí, who describes himself as a sculpting painter, remains connected to his native Silesia to this day; organizes plein air workshops in Hradec for his students from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (VŠUP), and has installed his somewhat eerie and somewhat carefree birds with glowing eyes in a park in Opava.

“The Square Wind” (1979)

A film, among other things, about Kurt’s work “The Stuffed Libuše”, which is part of our exhibition.

Mozart’s Armor

A film about the statue of W. A. Mozart in Brno. Little Mozart as a charming acrobat, balancing on a piano like a seductive Cupid. One wing is enough; his end was tragic. The figure’s movement is a comical Rococo bow by a musician and, at the same time, an allegory of joy, freedom, and flight. Parts of the body are rendered as Rococo ornamentation in the form of a frieze.