The First Exhibition of Astrology

The story of people meeting with nature and the universe/The story of our relationship with nature and the universe

ITINERANT EXHIBITION, organized with the help and support of the Sladovna art gallery in Písek, Czech Republic, introduces the world of astrology and also enables visitors to look inside astrological history of Czech and Moravia.

THE OPENING PARTY 06/03/2010 at 4pm.
Sladovna art gallery, Písek, Vysoké trámy
The exhibition takes place from 06/03/2010 to 11/04/2010.

The exhibition organizer and collages – Martina Lukášková, pen-and-ink drawings – Klára Sekyrová, graphic art work – Miroslav Švejda, photographs – Ondřej Koubek

Presenting astrologers: glass art – Soňa Erbanová, textile works – Alexandra Lechovská, paintings – Natálie Hejlová, Ondřej Klouček, Pavel Turnovský, collages and pen-and-ink drawings – Ondřej Ivanek, graphics – Ladislav Puršl, Jan Vratislav Žižka, wooden objects – Martin Lukeš, photographs – Jan Kazda, Vladimír Pospíšil, Martin Stejskal

The exhibition concept includes three stories.

Astrological story –  leading through basic principles of astrology as star signs, astrological houses, planets, aspects and other terms of it's symbolic language in a form of comics, collages and short texts.

Historical story – telling about evolution of astrology in Czech and Moravia from times of  Bojas and Slavonians to the present. Introducing showcases of historical illustrations and astrological books, showing rulers listening to astrologers, scholars charmed by astrology, artists and statesmen using astrology deliberately.

Aesthetical story – enables us to enter into landscape of art work of contemporary Czech astrologers showing their paintings, graphics, pen-and-ink drawings, textile objects, models, glass and wooden objects and photographs inspired by astrology. Children can enjoy astrological games and folders. 

Astrology is a symbolic language. One of the languages through which we can re-discover and describe our world.

Astrological instruments link cyclic comprehension to information currently available to create metaphoric image which can provide us better orientation and our space-finding.

Astrologers help create, through their symbolic kind of understanding, meaningful stories of particular events.

You are most welcome.