Mysterious Worlds of František Skála in the Wallenstein Riding Hall (until 3 September)
If you love art that makes you use your most internal imagination, you should not miss the unique exhibition of the works of František Skála at the Wallenstein Riding Hall. The space is literally suffused with his unending creativeness.
A luxury exhibition that has no likes
František Skála is a highly respected name in the world of the arts and culture. He excels with his undisputable talent and an immense amount of creativeness and imagination. You should definitely not miss his Prague show that will run through to 3 September. His last exhibition took place in the Rudolphinum in 2004, and who knows when the next one will be.
František Skála grew up in Karlín, studied wood-carving at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague, and film and television graphics at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design. He is a sculptor and painter, musician and dancer. Anything that he takes up takes many people’s breath away.
On a luxurious wave of imagination with František Skála
You can expect anything from the exhibition that traces his work from 2004 to the present, but definitely not boredom. Everyone will find something for himself at the exhibition: in a small manikin made out of earphones, in an immense unicorn looking down at visitors, in a plastic map of a desert, or in a mysterious revolving work named The House of Shadows in which you can see anything you wish.
Going to František Skála’s luxury exhibition is like travelling through a fairy-tale or navigating through mystical worlds. Getting away from every-day reality and admitting that the world around us may not be how we are accustomed to perceiving it, but that it may have an infinite number of forms, is a liberating and luxurious feeling that will prevail in you long after you leave the riding hall.
František Skála: Things you may not have known about him
František Skála is a member of Sklep Theatre and of the former “famous dance group” Tros Sketos that performed in the luxury jingle for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. He created the interior of the Palác Akropolis restaurant, is the author of one of the first Czech comic books The Great Voyages of Hair and Chin (Velké putování Vlase a Brady), and a laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.
