What will grow out of the current discourse and how can we maintain a diversity of approaches to current topics? These questions are answered by Jan Dot\u0159el, guest of the second episode of the podcast series PLAN_T.<\/p>\n
Jan studied Aesthetics at Charles University and soon after his studies he started working at the Kvalit\u00e1\u0159 Gallery, where he is now the chief curator. Kvalit\u00e1\u0159 Gallery has been on the scene for 11 years and was founded with the original idea of contemporary artist Jana Bernartov\u00e1 as a platform to connect visual art and design. It is this synthesis that persists in the gallery, and under Jan’s leadership the focus is on the intersection of fine art and sculpture design. “We are currently focusing on the relationship between established artists and those just starting out. The unifying leitmotif I have brought into the concept is then the synthesis of art and science, which defines our exhibition plan,”<\/em> Jan Dot\u0159el describes the current intention of the gallery concept.<\/p>\n It is this discourse, which links fine art with other disciplines, that is increasingly relevant today. Philosopher Bruno Latour, among others, called for extra-artistic links, understanding art as a field for mutual cooperation and multidisciplinarity. At the same time, the Kvalit\u00e1\u0159 gallery mainly represents artists who reflect a metaphysical overlap in their work. “It is precisely to such an overlap that a large number of artists make use of extra-disciplinarity, focusing on science – geometry, astronomy, geology, more exact disciplines and enriching the exact approach with a deeper meaning.”<\/em><\/p>\n Currently, Kvalit\u00e1\u0159 presents the exhibition ANALOGON from the collection of Old\u0159ich Th. Uttendorfsk\u00fd. “Mr. Uttendorfsk\u00fd has a unique relationship to collecting art, but also to nature. The current exhibition is an expression of trust and mutual cooperation, a presentation of and confrontation with the extraordinary nature of this collection. Natural objects, artefacts such as cabinet of curiosities, contemporary art, ancient art dating back to Mesopotamia, Antiquity, Ancient Egypt create a strange conglomeration of things that have a unique visual value that Mr Uttendorfsk\u00fd has built up,”<\/em> says Jan, adding that the collection includes several dozen items that the owner curates himself. It is this character and genius loci that Dot\u0159el and his curator, Lenka Lindaurova, have tried to bring to Kvalit\u00e1\u0159.<\/p>\n