We are delighted to invite you to Prokop Bartoníček’s exhibition Shards, whose opening will take place on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the new Chemistry Prints space in Lucerna at Štěpánská 61! This event will also mark the first time we open this space to the public.

The exhibition Shards marks Bartoníček's return to sculptural practice following years devoted to digital and new-media technologies. Yet this is not a retreat but a reconsideration: as images are generated artificially and we are witnessing an inflation of technological production, physical material has turned into a means of resistance.

The artist has chosen cast iron as a medium, whose processing is lengthy, transforming the artistic gesture through the mould to the final casting. The surfaces of his objects show imprints of expressive shaping — a calligraphic gesture rendered in three-dimensional mass. The forms are dynamic and ephemeral: undulations, fragments, shards of captured movement. The material, on the contrary, is massive and definitive.