Art for Good New Life for Exhibitions Jiří Šalamoun "... and one more thing"

Jiří Šalamoun "... and one more thing"

Jiří Šalamoun is probably the most prominent Czech illustrator from the second half of the 20th century. Examples of his excellent visual interpretations include Dickens The Pickwick Papers, Saltykov-Shchedrin, Sternes Tristram Shandy and Saroyans Tracys Tiger. Children love the stories of Feek the Maxidog and let‘s not forget Tolkiens Hobit and Coopers The Last of the Mohicans. And there will always be Hofmans Mr. Tau. Our exhibition, which was prepared for the artists important anniversary, will present Šalamouns illustrations, graphics and freehand drawings.

Exhibition plan

Jiří Šalamoun

17. 4. 1935

graphic artist, illustrator, animated film designer, film, theatre and exhibition poster designer and poet. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1952–1956), Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig (1956–1959), and finished his studies at the Prague Academy (1961).

In the 1960s, besides illustration, he devoted himself to graphic layouts for the publishing houses Mladá Fronta and Československý Spisovatel and for almost two decades worked with his wife Eva Natus editing the journal Film a Doba (Film and Time). From the middle of the 1970s he collaborated on animated films. During this period Šalamoun’s graphic work began to evolve, but his illustrated work remains key and is represented by more than a hundred illustrated book titles. The fundamental relationship the artist has with the text – which he thinks through carefully and which becomes, in essence, a conversation – is projected onto his graphic works as well. His film work is dominated by the serial Maxidog Fík, of which there also exists a book version.

Jiří Šalamoun’s work is marked by a specific humour – primarily sarcastic, bitter, ironic and grotesque – something along the lines of his slightly older colleagues from the artistic group Šmidrs (K. Nepraš, J. Koblasa, B. Dlouhý, J. Vožniak, the music composer R. Komorous and the theoretician J. Kříž). Their grotesque humour, which represents a distancing from the unhappy Czech historical arc of the 20th century, also creates the context in Šalamoun’s work. Besides this specific grotesque perception, Šalamoun’s work is based on the need to create a story, develop, reveal and characterise its layers and then assemble it into his own interpretation or bitter commentary. This involves not only his illustration work, but also his work in graphics, film and poetry.

Exhibitions

Jiří Šalamoun "... and one more thing"

Publications

Jiří Šalamoun Or Imaginable views of the World

Audio

Básně a antibásně: Andělíčku můj vrchní střážníčku aneb labyrint po vybombardování

Listen, seriously — everything will definitely turn out badly again.

The Art Gallery of Kooperativa

Dec. 16, 2015 - March 15, 2016

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Mladá fronta 1972

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Mladá fronta 1972, 1972

James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, Mladá fronta 1972

Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Odeon, Prague 1971

The Madman’s Manuscript (part of the The Pickwick Papers, 1981)

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The Madman’s Manuscript (part of the The Pickwick Papers, 1981)

Fantastic stories, Svoboda, Prague 1968

Quartet, 1978

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Bibliophile Šalamoun

Warning Reply, 1989

Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis (Faust), 1974

Prophecy, 1985

Citationes, 1977

Pidluke – Padluke! (Faust), 1976

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Tentator, 1981

Don Juan (Faust, 1976)

Ivan Bunin, The Gentleman from San Francisco, Edition Máj /NV,MF,Smena/, Prague 1970

From Familly Album, 1980

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Lottery, 1982

Michael von Jung, ...Grablieder, Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin, 1981

Listen to the Beautiful Song … Broadside Ballads of the Past, Mladá fronta, Prague 1983

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Karel Havlíček Borovský, Selected Works, Československý spisovatel, Klub přátel poezie, Prague 1990

Michail Saltykov-Ščedrin, The History of a Town, Odeon, Prague 1990

Ilja Erenburg, The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and his Disciples, Lidové nakladatelství, Prague 1984

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Story, 1985

Fabulae, 1977

Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar, 1985

Ladislav Fuchs, The Tale of the Criminal Counsel, Československý spisovatel, Prague 1982

William Saroyan, Tracy's Tiger, Odeon, Prague 1980

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, Odeon, Prague 1979

Escapes from the Wretchedness of the Normalization

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Crocodile Cow

Lady with butterflies, 1973

Ota Hofman, Mr. Tau and a Thousand Miracles, Albatros, Prague 1983

Night watchman, 1973

Struggle with Dragon

Rudolf Čechura – Jiří Šalamoun, Maxipes Fik, Albatros, Prague 1981

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Wilhelm Heinze, Die Hitze des Einfalls / Aphorismen, Eulespiegel Verlag, Berlin 1988

T. R. Field, Lomikel and Other Snags, Československý spisovatel, Prague 1988

Emanuel Frynta, Vertiginous Thoughts, Český spisovatel, Prague 1993

Georges Simenon, Maigret Sets a Trap, Mladá fronta, Edition 13, Prague 1970

Let`s Listen to a Pretty Song

Theatre and cinema posters, 1971–1989

Theatre and cinema posters, 1971-1989

Theatre and cinema posters, 1971–1989

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