AP gallery
AP Gallery
AP Gallery is a private “laboratory” investigating relationship between architecture and the current modern art. The results are public.
The solution is based on the following prerequisites:
1) Isolation and sterile clean environment is harmful for the modern art, contrary to habitual practice.
Thus, it is hardly possible to disconnect the current modern art from its oxygen, i.e. presence of specific light.
Our gallery acknowledges that it is a part of a Prague borough of Holešovice with the view of the Vítkov hill, that it is located in an old factory with many bizarre connotations, that it is a part of AP Atelier working environment and, also, that it is a part of a specific intellectual movement. It does not prioritize any of these aspects.
2) Lack of natural light coming to the venue in a visible way sucks energy out of modern art.
Daylight coming to our gallery through regular windows or rooflights is clearly identifiable. Its quality is influenced by the materials used on walls, ceilings and floors. These are materials transforming the light into soft non-contrast velvet form.
3) Modern art as a specific phenomenon requires a specific real venue with all identification signs of modern architecture.
All architectural elements of our gallery forming the venue provide for its non self-centred nature and certain archetypal legibility. Thus, they help to create a very familiar, calm and specific environment.
In this sense, AP Gallery represents a specific venue for specific works of art.
AP Gallery has resulted from a long-term project “Venue for All Media” organised in cooperation with MXM Gallery. The core idea of this project is to work towards settlement of the debt existing between architecture and fine arts.
Note: The venue is designed solely and purely for the purposes stated above. Should it not be possible to evaluate it within the “Work of Art in Architecture” category, we do not want it to be transferred to any other category. We see its importance only as a contribution to the discussion under category V.
Josef Pleskot
The solution is based on the following prerequisites:
1) Isolation and sterile clean environment is harmful for the modern art, contrary to habitual practice.
Thus, it is hardly possible to disconnect the current modern art from its oxygen, i.e. presence of specific light.
Our gallery acknowledges that it is a part of a Prague borough of Holešovice with the view of the Vítkov hill, that it is located in an old factory with many bizarre connotations, that it is a part of AP Atelier working environment and, also, that it is a part of a specific intellectual movement. It does not prioritize any of these aspects.
2) Lack of natural light coming to the venue in a visible way sucks energy out of modern art.
Daylight coming to our gallery through regular windows or rooflights is clearly identifiable. Its quality is influenced by the materials used on walls, ceilings and floors. These are materials transforming the light into soft non-contrast velvet form.
3) Modern art as a specific phenomenon requires a specific real venue with all identification signs of modern architecture.
All architectural elements of our gallery forming the venue provide for its non self-centred nature and certain archetypal legibility. Thus, they help to create a very familiar, calm and specific environment.
In this sense, AP Gallery represents a specific venue for specific works of art.
AP Gallery has resulted from a long-term project “Venue for All Media” organised in cooperation with MXM Gallery. The core idea of this project is to work towards settlement of the debt existing between architecture and fine arts.
Note: The venue is designed solely and purely for the purposes stated above. Should it not be possible to evaluate it within the “Work of Art in Architecture” category, we do not want it to be transferred to any other category. We see its importance only as a contribution to the discussion under category V.
Josef Pleskot