Czechoslovakia Through the Lens of Dagmar Hochová

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://hague.czechcentres.cz/cs/program/detail-akce/dagmar-hochova/" target="_blank" >http://hague.czechcentres.cz/cs/program/detail-akce/dagmar-hochova/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czechoslovakia Through the Lens of Dagmar Hochová

Original language description

The Czech Centre in Rotterdam, in collaboration with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, is organising the first public presentation of photographs by Dagmar Hochová in the Netherlands. The selected black-and-white photos in combination with projection on a large-size screen aim to show the reality of life in communist Czechoslovakia before 1989, as captured by this prominent Czech documentary photographer. Dagmar Hochová (1926 – 2012) became famous in her homeland mainly through her photographs of children, although the thematic spectrum of her work was much wider. Hochová herself did not like the “photographer of children” label as it identified her complete oeuvre with an ideologically neutral theme which had a chance to reach the broad public, as opposed to politically or socially engaged photographs. In her portfolio we can find snapshots of absurd situations caused by the illogical operation of the communist economy, photographs of condemned intellectual and artistic elites, series from children’s homes and mental asylums. In her time these images were excluded from public presentation as they were not in line with the illusion of a happy, problem-free society. As a result this segment of Dagmar Hochová’s work reached public awareness later through books and exhibitions produced by the artist after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

E_nekrit - Exhibition

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Rotterdam

Event country

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

1

Foreign attendee count

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Type of event by attendee nationality

EUR - Evropská akce