The core of Jiří Černický’s exhibition is formed by an extensive set of drawings through which the artist examines, interprets, and contextualizes themes representing key questions that shape both the connections and contradictions of today’s world. Černický understands these conceptual drawings as study plans that include both the research phase and proposals for resolving the issues under consideration. Not infrequently, the proposed solutions are realized in the form of sculptural objects or monumental installations, some of which form the main highlights of the current exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts.

In his drawings, objects, and installations, Černický explores both the possibilities and the limits of progress. He approaches this phenomenon critically and with a certain distance, combining the pursuit of innovation and progressiveness with elements of utopia, mystery, magic, and humor. In his interpretation, progress is inseparably linked to a Dadaist disruption of logic and rationality. The exhibition space of Jiří Černický can be understood as an open laboratory or research station that offers a backdrop for knowledge and wonder, skepticism and euphoria, sadness and joy, the verification of hypotheses as well as their subversion—inviting us to view the familiar differently and to see ourselves from elsewhere.

curator: Michal Koleček