The imagination is multifaceted – it can create utopian dreams, change realities and be anti-authoritarian, subversive or poetic. That is something the French surrealists recognised even before the Second World War. Their last proponent, the Czech filmmaker, poet and artist Jan Švankmajer (b. 1934 in Prague) also understood that the imagination is what defines people. His motto, “All power to the imagination!”, captures the fantasy and lyricism found in the poetics of contemporary Czech artists, rooted in the avant-garde art tradition of the interwar period.

City festival of tradition and renewal

The imagination is multifaceted – it can create utopian dreams, change realities and be anti-authoritarian, subversive or poetic. That is something the French surrealists recognised even before the Second World War. Their last proponent, the Czech filmmaker, poet and artist Jan Švankmajer (b. 1934 in Prague) also understood that the imagination is what defines people. His motto, “All power to the imagination!”, captures the fantasy and lyricism found in the poetics of contemporary Czech artists, rooted in the avant-garde art tradition of the interwar period.

City festival of tradition and renewal

Each facet of the novelistic epic of this artist in contact with different cosmos paints an essential portrait of nascent modernity, sheds light on an era on the edge of two worlds, taking the viewer from the 19th to the 20th century.

City festival of tradition and renewal

Each facet of the novelistic epic of this artist in contact with different cosmos paints an essential portrait of nascent modernity, sheds light on an era on the edge of two worlds, taking the viewer from the 19th to the 20th century.

The next exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO will be dedicated to Bohemian glass after the Second World War, featuring the works by six major artists of contemporary glass sculpture: Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, René Roubíček and Miluše Roubíčková

City festival of tradition and renewal

Each facet of the novelistic epic of this artist in contact with different cosmos paints an essential portrait of nascent modernity, sheds light on an era on the edge of two worlds, taking the viewer from the 19th to the 20th century.

The next exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO will be dedicated to Bohemian glass after the Second World War, featuring the works by six major artists of contemporary glass sculpture: Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, René Roubíček and Miluše Roubíčková

City festival of tradition and renewal

Each facet of the novelistic epic of this artist in contact with different cosmos paints an essential portrait of nascent modernity, sheds light on an era on the edge of two worlds, taking the viewer from the 19th to the 20th century.

The next exhibition at LE STANZE DEL VETRO will be dedicated to Bohemian glass after the Second World War, featuring the works by six major artists of contemporary glass sculpture: Václav Cigler, Vladimír Kopecký, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, René Roubíček and Miluše Roubíčková