Linocut II

chateau Klenová

31. 3. - 26. 5. 2019

Almost every fall since 2001, the Klatovy / Klenová Gallery has organized (it is, in fact, the only gallery in the Czech Republic to do so) an international linocut symposium at Villa Paula in Klenová. In 2018, the symposium was held for the 17th time. To date, it has been attended by 117 artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania, England, the USA, Australia, and Japan. Although the symposium has no single topic and artists can chose to create whatever they like, many find inspiration from the local surroundings – Klenová Castle and Chateau, or the nearby natural scenery.

In 2016, the gallery at Klenová Castle held the exhibition Linocut I, and this year we have decided to hold a sequel exhibition to show works that were not included in the first exhibition because of space constraints or because they did not fit with the other works in terms of motif. The exhibition also includes printed works made at the symposia in the intervening years in 2016, 2017, and 2018.