Exhibition title VERA AND VLADIMIR MACHONIN 60´/70´
Original venue Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 22.12.2010-5.2.2011
Name(s) of participating artist(s) Věra Machoninová, Vladimír Machonin
Name(s) of curator(s) Klára Pučerová, Pavel Směták
Short description: The exhibition of the work of Věra Machoninová (*1928) and Vladimír Machonin (1920–1990), architects and spouses, is centred mainly on their best-known works and projects from the 1960s and 1970s: Kotva Department Store in Prague, the House of Apartment Culture and the master plan for Budějovické Square, Thermal Spa Hotel in Karlovy Vary, and the building of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Berlin. --- The Machonins were part of the strong generation that began creating at the time of the waning historicism of Socialist Realism, and which from the mid 1950s was establishing intermittent contact with world events. It was the generation of architects which first acquired a solid professional background in its perfect command of the traditions of domestic building craft and, building on this, began to implement in its own work the artistic and engineering aspects of architecture. The search for a new architectural expression and for new construction and material approaches was symptomatic of this generation. A generation of strong engineer-architects. --- The exhibition presents originals and reproductions of period and contemporary photographs, plans, and drawings, there is a screening prepared for visitors, and the model from the competition for the spa grounds in Karlovy Vary and the model for Kotva are both on show. Visitors to the exhibition will also have an opportunity to learn about the architects design work. The armchairs and chairs from the Embassy of the Czech Republic and Thermal are on exhibit at the gallery, along with the last surviving chairs from the House of Apartment Culture. There are also four wooden relief panels on show from the House of Apartment Culture that were originally part of the external cladding of the cinema hall. --- The exhibition is organized by Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague, the exhibition space founded by Czech Architecture Foundation.
Category solo show
Media design and architecture 
Period 2nd half of 20th century 
Number of exhibited works Around 45 
Required space less than 400 m2 
Availability (from – to) 02/2011 - 12/2015 
The works will be available in Czech Republic, Europe 
Additional scheduled venue(s) Embassy of Czech Republic, Berlin, Germany, 26.3.-7.5.2009; Jihlava, Czech Republic, December 2011; Zlin - Krajska galerie vytvarneho umeni, Czech Republic, 2012 
Accompanying material(s) 128 pages, full color catalogue has been published 
Rental fee Upon request 
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Reference link(s)
Institutions/organizations that have recently collaborated with the exhibition’s organizer Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Architecture Forum Aedes, Berlin, Germany; Bauhaus Center, Tel Aviv, Israel  
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