BORDERLINE SYNDROME / Martin Káňa, David Saudek, Jaroslav Valečka

Chateau Klenová
30 March – 1 June 2014, opening reception 29 March at 5pm

Jaroslav Valečka, Stopy, 2012

Chateau Klenová, 30.3. - 1. 6. 2014

The “Borderline Syndrome” project, which focuses on the question of the Czech border lands, the transfer, and the Sudetenland in general, presents three leading figures from the contemporary art scene: painters David Saudek (1966) and Jaroslav Valečka (1972) and sculptor Martin Káňa (1975). These artists take a distinctive, creative approach to expressing themselves on the subject of the death of a “world” while exploring the impacts of the “transfer” on all spheres of society.

We decided on the subject after “randomly” discovering that each of the people involved is in some way personally affected by the question of the Sudetenland. Martin Káňa spent his childhood in Vejprty in the OreMountains, and Jaroslav Valečka lived in the small village of Líska in the LusatianMountains. In addition, the father of exhibition curator Rea Michalová was “transferred” from Teplice as a child in 1938 after the German occupation, and David Saudek's family was affected by the Holocaust.

The artists see their exhibition as a wholly non-political expression of views on the nearly thousand-year question of the Bohemian and Moravian borderlands and the co-existence with neighboring nations.

Rea Michalová, exhibition curator

Video Václav Vojta