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Autonomy of an artwork outside of the institutions of art
Hauser, Filip ; Piaček,, Martin (referee) ; Dub,, Petr (referee) ; Klímová, Barbora (advisor)
This dissertation thesis aims to reflect on the current evolvement of public spaces and increasingly common discussions of the lay and professional public about its impact and importance for a democratic society. The main topic, "Autonomy of an artwork outside of the institutions of art", focuses on searching for the autonomy of artwork in public spaces in the context of how the artwork was placed there. The thesis describes specific artworks which were placed into the public space using different methods, such as art competition, no competition, as a gift, or in a way of temporary art. These methods are examined to find the degree of autonomy. The degree of autonomy of artworks in public spaces is determined based on the applied analysis which, among other things, focuses on how efficient the result is in comparison to the method of placement. The field research resulted in complex, subjective, sculptural and artistic opinion on the current practice of placement of artworks into public spaces. Such professional and relevant opinion was then presented to the responsible authorities which have a significant impact on the creation of public spaces. The author aims to apply the acquired knowledge in practice by offering his professional opinions for the new elaboration of the government strategic document called "Politika architektury a stavební kultury České republiky" (loosely translated as "Politics of Architecture and Building Culture of the Czech Republic"), which is created by Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic. The main results of the thesis describe the efficient approaches which lead to cultivation of public spaces and the significant role of art in them. Such approaches were in the thesis demonstrated by civic influence on the government strategies or civic activism in a form of citizens' initiative called "Je to i tvoje město" (loosely translated as "The city is your too") which actively participates in the public debate in Jindřichův Hradec, town on the South of the Czech Republic.
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Post psychedelic relief
Zdvořáček, Tomáš ; Vaněk, Vojtěch (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
The aim of the bachelor thesis was to create a sculptural form of the Greek Morpheus. In Greek mythology, Morpheus is the son of the sleep god Hypnosis - he is the god of dreams, responsible for what we dream about. Morphea portrays the work as a "graphics card of the sleep construct", an intelligent entity living on the edge of human consciousness. The Greeks imagined him as a little boy with wings on his temples. He understands Morpheus' work as a column of energy processing billions of dreams simultaneously. As part of the bachelor's thesis, a two-and-a-half-meter-high column was modeled and cast into a laminate, covered on the surface with a finely modeled relief in the post-psychedelic style. In searching for the formal language of the relief, the author used the system of mutual connections from the computer game Factorio.
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Typology of the Great War monuments in Prague and its surroundings
Klimt, Šimon ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor) ; Pech, Milan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with a general typology of World war I memorial sites located in the urban area of Hlavní město Praha. It aims to produce a comprehensive framework of the memorials erected. Field research in the form of visiting majority of the sites and procuring their photographical documentation was a key part of the thesis. An effort to define memorial sites in terms of places of memory as well as an examination of the influence the great war had on contemporary sculpture within the new Czechoslovak state had been made before the typology itself. The area for data collection does not reflect the contemporary "Great Prague" of 1922, whose inception marks the erection of many of the memorial sites in favour of the present day Prague cadastral territory. The reason for such decision being the possibility of differences in motifs between the integral parts of then Prague and surrounding villages which were to be integrated later. The typology consists of several categories which classify the memorial based on their formal architectonic and sculptural properties or their ideological background, respectively. A single chapter also examines the memorials of Prague that had been irreversably destroyed by subsequent regimes. Each memorial is described in terms of its year of origin, author...
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Sepulchral monuments in the practice of monument care
Roháček, Jiří ; Müller, K. ; Chlíbec, Jan ; Slavík, J.
The methodology book pioneers in presenting the forms and evolution of Christian sepulchral monuments dated from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, their decoration and epigraphic suit. The main part of the methodology book consists of chapters on recording, documentation, preservation and presentation of sepulchral monuments. The chapters on epigraphic and heraldic accessories are aimed to be directly used as sources for sepulchral monuments' recording. A lot of attention is paid to managing records of the monuments in the environment of the heritage conservation integrated information system.
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Harmonies
Mucha, Petr ; Suchánek, Jiří (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
The Monade sculpture from a series called Harmonies is a 350 cm tall steel object made of welded metal plates, representing harmonic intervals applied to idealised proportions of the human figure. The impetus is a need of transcendency and meaning in perception of reality. Creative strategies are reduction, abstraction and remediation.
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Landscape of fragile dreams
Bártová, Nela ; Orlová, Jana (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis is a summary of several months of study of glass tubes in combination with other materials, media or spaces. The installation aims to take the viewer into itself by using the poetry. Fragility, concentration, absorption. The installation method will be related to the specifics of the selected environment.
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(Now what?)
Šťastná, Kateřina ; Chamonikolasová, Kaliopi (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
The topic of the bachelor thesis is touch. The work builds on the fascination with touch, analyzes how different contents can be associated with a gesture that symbolizes something very subtle, fleeting and even fleeting, but at the same time can elicit a very intense and calmly long-lasting response. The output of the bachelor's thesis is a figural sculpture, the prototype of which is the author herself at the age of ten. By depicting a girl's body at an age when it is physically beginning to transform into a woman's body, I ephasizis the touch in its inconsistency, perhaps subtly uncertain the audience and raise questions focused on what the touch means to us.
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Glitch Sculpture (Time)
Blažek, Tomáš ; Vítek, Jiří (referee) ; Gabriel, Michal (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis encounters the phenomenon of error in digital technologies through a three-dimensional defective object. The geometric abstraction of the error is formed from the remains of a realistically modeled figure. The defect is entered into the production code for 3D printing via algorithms. Emphasis is placed on the applicability of such an algorithm for three-dimensional glitch art. The resulting sculpture thus looks exactly and yet relaxed in the spirit of contemporary tendencies working with error.
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