フランツ・カフカ＋ブルーノ・シュルツの対比列伝展。
生涯や生地（プラハとドロホビチ）に関するパネル展示。
シュルツ唯一の現存する油絵の精巧な複製やドロホビチの写真展示、シュルツ作壁画の発見をめぐる映画ダイジェスト版など。
Prague, 10.07.2012 - 19.10.2012
Two leading figures of international Modernism, Central European Jews
and denizens of the lost worlds of Czech-German-Jewish Prague and
Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz who through
their work created alternate universes
Through paintings, films, texts, the exhibition Kafka & Schulz -
Masters of the Borderlands traces the surprising parallels between the
lives and work of the Prague-born writer Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and
the Polish-Jewish writer and artist Bruno Schulz (1892–1942).
"Kafka's method of creating a parallel, alternative reality is
unprecedented; this dual reality is achieved through a sort of
pseudo-realism," yet at the same time, "the knowledge, insights and
penetrative nature of Kafka's work are not his alone, but part of a
shared heritage of mysticism of all times and nations", Bruno Schulz
wrote in 1936 in an epilogue to the Polish edition of The Trial.
Presented at the Czech Centre Gallery, the exhibition features panels
with original texts by writer and playwright Agneta Pleijel dedicated
to the two places inseparably connected with the writing and
imagination of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, Prague and Drohobych.
Offering an insight into the world of Schulz's dream visions – his
visual and literary fantasies, it a-includes a copy of his sole
surviving oil painting, The Encounter and a short version of Benjamin
Geissler's documentary Finding Pictures which depicts Schulz'
discovery of murals in the Drohobych villa linked to the Gestapo
officer Felix Landau. Drohobych Without Schulz, a series of
photographs by Grand Press Photo winner Kuba Kamiński shows the
current appearance Schulz' native town.
The exhibition was created by the joint effort of three
Stockholm-based institutions: the Stockholm Jewish Museum, the Polish
Institute, and the Czech Centre, and Agneta Pleijel.
Events accompanying the exhibition:
* July 19th, 7.30 pm at Divadlo v Celetné, Celetná 595/17, Praha 1
13th month / Requiem for Bruno Schulz - a pantomime directed by Petr
Boháč inspired by Schulz' works
* September 6th, 5pm at the Polish Institute in Prague
Schulz's work brought to life in a performance of the TrAKTOR theatre
group, as well as a screening of Sanatorium Under The Sign of the
Hourglass, the Czech premiere of a newly-restored print of the famous
film by Wojciech Jerzy Has.
* October 16th, 6.30pm at the Polish Institute in Prague
Screening of Marcin Giżycki's Alfred Schreyer from Drohobycz
Exhibition:
July 10th – August 22nd, 2012 Czech Centre, Prague, Rytířská 31, Prague 1
September 6th – October 19th, 2012 Polish Institute in Prague, Malé
nám. 1, Prague 1
For more information on Bruno Schulz, see the new website brunoschulz.eu
http://brunoschulz.eu/en/
Sources: Polish Institute in Prague press materials
Editor: Marta Jazowska
