Heda: Stone, speak up!

The exhibition of the Central Bohemian Museum in Roztoky u Prahy prepared for the 120th anniversary of the birth of the sculptor Hedvika Zaorálková presented a cross-section of her life's work and looked at it in the broader context of Czech sculptural production. The pages of the monograph accompanying the exhibition are filled with a variety of pictorial documentation and extensive texts, typeset in Atyp (Suitcase Type Foundry). Atyp, with its simple geometry, refers to the Bauhaus movement, which defines modernity, to which Zaorálková's artistic expression clearly belongs. Display, one of the styles of the Atyp typeface used in the headings, by its apparent imperfection, i.e. the absence of touches, refers to the sculptural treatment of the surface of sculptures and statues, roughened and enlivened by small incisions. The rough unprocessed material and the vision of its future shape is the leitmotif of the visual style of the exhibition, whose other outputs are the invitation, poster, exhibition panels, dibonds and captions. The image of the stone is repeated here, with excerpts from Zaorálková's poetry projected onto it, while the text is (de)shaped by the unevenness of the stone. The prints make use of different qualities of paper; transparent tracing paper suggests transparency into the material, while structured paper printed with digital technology, which does not suppress the structure but preserves it, evokes the rough surface of the sculpted material.

Initiator/client:
Středočeské muzeum v Roztokách u Prahy

Year:
2020

Design:
Tomáš Brychta
Sára Bergmannová

Print:
Reformát