Category: Exhibition

The mobile exhibition of the author’s collections of five textile and clothing designers called Tradition in design – Contemporary clothing with tradition included is a project of the Center for Folk Art Production in Slovakia.

With the aim of stimulating the creation of young clothing designers inspired by traditional craftsmanship, which is part of European culture, Center for Folk Art Production implemented the first stage of the Tradition in Design project in 2021, in which designers Marcel Holubec W., Martin Hrča, Mišena Juhász, Ľubica Poncik and Henrieta Tholt participated . Each of them created clothes and clothing accessories with their original signature, which subscribed to traditional materials or motifs. They are a noticeable return to nature and sustainability, which are also a trend in current global fashion creation. In addition to traditional textile techniques and materials, designers were also appealed to by traditional architecture – the structure of shingles, Habanski majolica or the works of important figures of Slovak culture.

In the field of clothing creation, several old crafts are combined, such as tailoring, weaving, embroidery, lacemaking, cotton-making (weaving and subsequent treatment of woolen fabric, products made of 100% sheep wool), blouse-making, hat-making, leather-making, blue-printing, frame knitting, on form, needles or crochet.

All the exhibiting authors are based on tradition in their work. Perhaps it is due to their studies, when at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava they went through the courses of several teachers whose work was connected with the Center for Folk Art Production in the past. Perhaps through their upbringing and internal foundation, which was also formed in dialogue with our past, with our roots, ancestors. Each author has a recognizable and original handwriting that determines his work, but the exhibited clothes and clothing accessories are united by an innovative link to traditional craftsmanship, traditional technologies and motifs. The common tendency of the exhibitors is also a return to the honesty of craftsmanship and respect for centuries-old values. From their work, there is a noticeable return to nature, to natural materials and sustainability, which is a prominent trend in the world today.

The exhibition was prepared by: Slovak Center for Folk Art Production in cooperation with the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlin

As the only state institution, Center for Folk Art Production is dedicated to the preservation and development of traditional crafts and folk art production in Slovakia. Since its establishment in 1945, the face of Center for Folk Art Production has been shaped by artists – designers inspired by traditional crafts and folk art production, who, in cooperation with skilled craftsmen, shift traditional shapes and patterns into a form that appeals to contemporaries.

Website: https://traditionindesign.sk/ 

The authors of the fashion photos are Mariana Tomanová and Peter Simoník.

The 5th year of the exhibition of diploma theses of students of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the Tomáš Bata University in Zlín will take place this year in our gallery and on the outdoor panels in front of the building from 6/29 – 7/21/2022.

The Diplomas 22 exhibition will present a selection of final theses of students from 11 studios of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications. Graduate theses from films to industrial design to web applications and graphics. This is the annual exhibition of diploma thesis, this time (not only) about unique snowflakes… Solid as ice and fragile and unique, the graduates present at this exhibition their will to ensure that the temperature of their world does not rise too much, that the bridges between the grains do not disappear, that the snow cover remained a cohesive white. This year’s snowflakes will not be lost, they will sublimate – and there is always and everywhere a thirst for good ideas and creative solutions.

 

The opening of the exhibition will take place on June 29, 2022 from 6 p.m.

The exhibition will be located in gallery G18 and in the exterior in front of the faculty at the address Univerzitní 2431. You can view it until July 21, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. including weekends, the outdoor panels can be seen nonstop.

You can browse the online version of the Diplomky 22 exhibition catalog at diplomky.fmk.utb.cz.

Data visualization as a challenge of art and aesthetics

High-volume data combined with exact scientific research or industrial production has become a respected “material” of art. Their visualization through programming languages, algorithms and creative coding reveals the shapes, processes and contexts that result in a distinctive work of art. It is realized in 2D and 3D designs, dynamic and static visual parts with the possibility of interaction.

Aliaksandra Laurova

* 1991 in Brest

She graduated in mathematics and computer science at the State University in Minsk and the Digital Design Studio at FMK TBU in Zlín, and lectures at the University of Business and Law in Ostrava. She participated in the Panta Rhei symposium (Zlín / Uherské Hradiště), Art Colony Cered (Hungary). She exhibited at the Hauerova 4 Gallery at the Silesian University in Opava, and collaborated with the Independent Embassy of Belarusian Culture.

This exhibition is her graduate dissertation project.

Curator: doc. PhDr. Miroslav Zelinsky, CSc.

Graphic concept: Vasil Hatala

We invite you to the closing of the exhibition, which will take place on June 8 at 5 p.m. A lecture on the topic of high-volume data and their use in art will take place at 5 p.m. with the curator of the exhibition doc. PhDr. Miroslav Zelinsky, CSc. 

 

 

Exhibition of the works from international competition for designers up to 30 years

7. 5. – 20. 5. 2022

We have been asking more and more intensely – what will our future look like? How can we positively influence it? Zlin Design Week points to design as one of the possibilities of this search. Design as a human ability to combine functional solutions with aesthetics. We believe that it is worth supporting its future.

Best in Design, as one of the festival’s parts, takes the path of supporting the young creators who symbolize this future. It creates opportunities for making contacts, establishing friendships, collaborations, gaining inspiration and, last but not least, opportunities for presenting the work of designers and gaining financial support.

Individuals and teams compete in three categories: Product & Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Communication Design. The judges evaluate the idea, aesthetics, feasibility, use and processing of materials, overall sustainability – as well as the degree of innovation and impact of the projects.

The exhibition showcases the works that most impressed the jury in the 13th edition of the competition – whether they are finalists or designers awarded an honorable mention. They deliberately put the final projects on the same level as what came before them. In order to highlight design as a process, a way of thinking.

 

The exhibition also includes sosone handicraft furniture, which combines a traditional Zlín workshop with designs by Veronika Zelezníková and Robert Urban. A new collection of sustainable stools from residual material and cuttings. The products are for sale in the pro.story design shop, which you can find at T. G. Masaryka 2433, Zlín.

The special opening hours of the gallery for this exhibition are Monday to Friday, 10 am – 6 pm.

 

 

After a short break, we have prepared another exhibition – Blue and Strong: The Story of ALPA and Leo Heilbrunn. The exhibition is being prepared by the curator Helena Maňasová Hradská from the Department of Theoretical Studies of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of TBU in Zlín.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday 16 March from 6 pm at Štefánikova 5670.

The Blue and Strong exhibition is a brief summary of research into the advertising media of the Alpa brand from the point of view of visual studies and marketing history. The main purpose of the exhibition is to point out the wide and varied range of sources (ideologies and prototypes) that the brand’s sales strategy was able to use to build identity.

The participation of advertising artist Leo Heilbrunn in building this identity was crucial and largely determined the high level of marketing communication of the company, for which the Alpa brand became literally a legendary example of good “higher style” advertising.

The exhibition Blue and Strong: The Story of ALPA and Leo Heilbrunn will last until April 28, you can visit it for free from Monday to Thursday from 1 pm to 6 pm. Follow the current information on our website, Facebook and Instagram.

Accept our invitation to a new exhibition in the G18 gallery called Dépôt, a selection from the solo works of the intermediate artist Milan Mikuláštík.

The exhibition will present a selection of Mikuláštík’s post-conceptual images, objects, ready-made whose leitmotif is critical thinking about human society, its history and potentials, inspired by scientific disciplines such as archeology, paleontology, anthropology or evolutionary biology and formal anchoring in post-minimalist aesthetics, multiplication and serial sorting.

Milan Mikuláštík was born in 1975 in Slavičín and grew up in Zlín. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he graduated in 2002. He is a founding member of the MINA and Guma Guar art groups. He currently works as a curator of the exhibition program at the National Technical Library and an assistant in the Malba 2 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He lives in Prague and Zlín.

 

The opening of the exhibition will take place on November 3, 2021 at 18:00, to which you are cordially invited!

 

What does the future of design look like? The Best in Design exhibition presents the finalists of international competition. This year, Zlin Design Week also offers an autumn program that will present the finalists and winners of the international Best in Design competition. Discussions with designers, workshops, lectures, dernisage. You can experience all this from October 6 to 28, 2021 in the G18 University Gallery.

The 12th year of the international Best in Design competition offered the opportunity to breakthrough in the world of design for young talents. The jury selected from more than three hundred entries from various parts of the world. Visitors to the exhibition can look forward to samples of this year’s finalists, from three categories. You can look forward to works from the categories Product & Industrial Design, Fashion Design and Communication Design.

“The Best in Design exhibition is not only a showcase of fashion, product design and innovative approaches but also a response to the issue of competition in these fields. Design and the visual arts in general are disciplines in which unambiguous quality is difficult and mainly subjective. We, therefore, agreed with the G18 gallery team that when installing the exhibits, we will not differentiate the placement of individual authors in the competition when placing them, but we will place the same emphasis on all exhibited works. However, we do not want to say that competition in this area has no justification, but we perceive it as a means of promotion rather than a match of the authors, ”said the designer of the exhibition Miroslav Macík.

For example, the exhibition will present the duo Julie Dítětová and Jáchym Moravec with the work Česká vlajka.online, Karolína Čechová, who captivated the jury with their clothing collection called Inner Sanctum. There will also be work from this year’s absolute winner of the year 2021, Ondřej Pechal. He entered his design of a cast iron radiator, which should last for generations and adapt to different uses. “My goal was to strip the radiator of unnecessary deposits of historicism and to instil in it a simple and timeless form. At the same time, however, continue the tradition in this industry, support the natural tectonics of the radiator and thus facilitate the readability of the product. All this in accordance with the casting technology and using its advantages,” says Ondřej.

Zlín, design and meetings with other creators or cultural enthusiasts. If you missed this in the spring, you now have a great opportunity to relive it. The G18 Gallery will always be open from Monday to Thursday, 1 pm to 6 pm. More information about the program can be found at www.zlindesignweek.com or on the social networks Best in Design and Zlin Design Week.

The opening of the exhibition is on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

prof. Mgr. Pavel Dias, photographer and pedagogue

December 9, 1938 – April 19, 2021

Pavel Dias was one of the important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century. He worked on the border between journalistic and documentary photography, he was one of the photographers of the first domestic picture magazine Mladý svět. From 1964 to 1983 he was a photographer working with various magazines. He focused mainly on advertising photography. From 1983 to 1988 he worked at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Brno as the head of the photography department. From 1989 to 2009 he was a professor at FAMU in Prague, and from 2005 to 2008 he also taught photography at Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

In his photographic work, he emphasized deeply humanistic photography. Thanks to his experience with reportage photography, he was able to clearly convey to the viewer a certain situation in the given context, he sought objectivity and his photographs do not have a stylized author’s handwriting, where form prevails over the content. Pavel Dias has long been involved in photographing thematically focused cycles. His family experience led him to a cycle dedicated to concentration camps called Torso of the Holocaust, photographing horses meant an escape into the original world of the inner relationship between man and animal and also in the unhappy period of normalization to use the opportunity to document human society through a specific atmosphere of racing.

 

We present a very brief cross-section of the work of a great Czech photographer. We are not talking about a retrospective, but about honour and memory – a gesture towards a great artist, a teacher, a good person who left us this year.

Exhibition of Diploma and Bachelor Theses of Shoe Design, Fashion Design and Audiovisual Arts will present a selection of students’ final theses from the studios of the TBU Faculty of Multimedia Communications in Zlín. The accompanying program includes the Zlín Gallery Tour, which will take place on September 4, 2021.

Students who have successfully completed their bachelor’s and master’s studies in the academic year 2020/2021 will present themselves in the G18 gallery.

You can see a wide range of works and samples of graduate films in the gallery from 30 August to 12 September 2021. The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 1 pm to 6 pm in the G18 Gallery at Štefánikova 5670, Zlín (U18 building, Faculty of Humanities) UTB).

We would like to invite you to the GALLERY TOUR event on Saturday, September 4, 2021.

“Join the adventure bus ride – Gallery Tour – learning about contemporary art and architecture of Zlín. Choose individual events or complete the whole ride by bus, bicycle, scooter, some places are accessible to each other on foot. Gallery Tour 2021 will include guided tours of exhibitions and architecture, site-specific installations, a sound installation and a live concert. You will see a cross-section of the work of professional artists, architects, designers and students. ”

 

 

Dispositions | 17. 7. – 18. 8. 2021 | Ondřej Filípek and Stella Geppert /D/

Curator: Iva Mladičová

Opening: 17. 7. 2021 at 17:00

The exhibition collaboration between ONDŘEJ FILÍPEK and STELLA GEPPERT / D / is an opportunity to dialogue, intergenerationally between two significant artistic ensembles, whose common denominator lies in the inventive transformation of the psychology and corporeality of the human figure and the definition and reflection of human space. Both authors work with figural corporeality, Filípek in a direct sculptural way and Geppert transforms corporeality through the recording of movement action.

 

The dynamics of psychic expressiveness within the artworks of Ondřej Filípek is present in the apparent closedness of the shape, explicitly in the deformations and delimitation of the environment by means of objects. Geppert also works with the environment, with the real dynamics of living corporeality, from which drawing records of an expressive character are created and remain. There are two ways to transform psychic dynamics. The reciprocity of both approaches will allow distance from the common perception of the sculptural installation precisely by confrontation with the absence of corporeality in conceptual drawings and performances.

Ondřej Filípek creates a suggestive community of objects of an industrial nature and deformed figural torsos, treating the imaginative space of anxiety about the pathological nature of the environment. In the figures, the liveliness of the organic shape allows it to blend with the technically cold shape. Torsion figures are both static and unstable. The expression is humanly disturbing and at the same time detached. The whole is alive and inanimate. The figure transforms into an object, the object acquires an anthropomorphic character. The author points out the need to revive the human dimension of the current way of existence, to the borderline moment of the situation.