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The Transformation of Geometry / Collections Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin and Miroslav Velfl, Prague
November 28 2018 – March 31 2019, Start and end datesJiří Kolář
Karel Malich
Zdeněk Sýkora
Dóra Maurer
Victor Vasarely
Henryk Stażewski
Ryszard Winiarski
Hugo Demartini
The exhibition project of Prague City Gallery, entitled The Transformation of Geometry, employs the profile of two significant private collections – Sammlung Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin, and Miroslav Velfl, Prague – to present gems by outstanding Czech and foreign artists, based on reductive geometric or, respectively, structural concepts. For the first time ever in the given extent, it mediates the dialogue between two collection strategies in the framework of an identical subject, which at the same time opens interesting space for ponderings on what they have in common and in what they differ.
The Berlin collector Siegfried Grauwinkel has been building his collection for more than thirty years. Over time, he switched from its initially wider concept to Concrete Art and geometric forms in general, and currently also extends them with examples of Fundamental and Radical Painting. The collection of Miroslav Velfl, too, initially had wider focus. However, the collector in the recent years exclusively turned to Constructivist tendencies found in both Czech and foreign art from the period between 1960s and the beginning of the new millennium.
exhibited authors
Miroslav Velfl Collection Siegfried Grauwinkel Collection
Anni Albers Frank Badur
Leon Polk Smith Imre Bak
Francois Morellet Horst Bartnig
Jiří Kolář Hartmuth Böhm
Max Bill Max Bill
Camille Graeser Andreas Brandt
Manfred Mohr Max Cole
Zdeněk Sýkora Suzanne Daetwyler
Kenneth Martin Piero Dorazio
Karel Malich Paul Uwe Dreyer
Günther Uecker Rita Ernst
Vladimir Kokolia Günther Förg
František Kyncl Dan Freudenthal
Josef Hiršal Günter Fruhtrunk
Hugo Demartini Heinz Gappmayr
Radek Kratina Johanes Geccelli
Lev Valdemarovič Nusberg Kuno Gonschior
Auguste Herbin Camille Graeser
Dalibor Chatrný István Haász
Vladislav Mirvald Marcia Hafif
Kamil Linhart Herbert Hinteregger
Milan Grygar Olaf Holzapfel
Petr Kvíčala Alfred Hückler
Rita Ernst Callum Innes
Horst Bartnig Imi Knoebel
Paul Richard Lohse Imre Kocsis
Henryk Stazewski Matti Kujasalo
Getulio Alviani Adolf Luther
Richard Anuszkiewicz Gianni Colombo
Carlos Cruz-Diez Susanne Lyner
Cesar Domela Ray Malone
Anthony Hill Dóra Maurer
Richard Paul Lohse Manfred Mohr
Pavel Mansouroff Lienhard von Monkiewitsch
Mauro Reggiani Francois Morellet
Jesus Rafael Soto Jan van Munster
Fausta Squatriti Aurelie Nemours
Jeffrey Steale Kenneth Noland
Victor Vasarely Georg Karl Pfahler
Steven Aalders Gudrun Piper
Henri Prosi
Rolf Rose
Reinhard Roy
Klaus J. Schoen
Christiane Schlosser
Elisabeth Sonneck
Renaud Jacquier Stajnowicz
Esther Stocker
Günther Uecker
Rudolf Valenta
Victor Vasarely
Heimo Zobernig
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Anton Stankowski
Betty Rieckmann
Bernar Venet
Mar Vicente
Ryszard Winiarski
Turi Simeti
Andreas Brandt
Stefanos Gazis
Kristin Gerber
Thomas Kaminsky
Jan Kotík
Christian Roeckenschuss
Peter Sedgley
photo: Max Bill, heller kern, 1972/1973, Collection Grauwinkel