Rare Books

This part is devoted to František Skála, the laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for 1991 and his work Lesojan (1998, beechwood, parchment, strings, wiring), which can be seen in the collections of modern art in the National Gallery in the 2nd floor of the Veletržní palác in Prague. Part of the book is a comic story of František Skála Velké putování Vlase a Brady/ The great adventure of Vlas and Brada. TAKITAK has three parts. A book with a picture story - that is to look through and you can see there the ghosts Lesojans. Newspaper - there you will learn about this wood skier much more from his creator, but also a lot of information about the spaces where you can meet him, about the exhibitions, well, as it usually is in the newspaper. Wood file - inside there is a big TAKITAK secret. Printed papers which you can find there have secret messages and you can read them with the help od a gadget (a template). They are from the BSC (Big Secret Collection). What is collected in there? Why is it secret? How big is it? With the help of the gadget you can add to TAK just as you wish. But you can create your own TAK - completely different.

Prague-based Canadian artist Jessica Serran has spent the last two and a half years walking the “field” and trying to answer the questions, “what does it mean to be from a particular place, and how does that place affect your sense of who you are in the world?” The project has a particular relevance to Serran given her Czechoslovak ancestry, her interest in how the past both shapes and informs the present, and her work as a psycho-cartographer.