Dalibor Chatrný, Achtstundeaustellung und derer Rekonstruktion
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- Dalibor Chatrný, Achtstundeaustellung und derer Rekonstruktion
- 1970
- 6 b&w prints, print on paper
- 22 × 15 cm
On Sunday, 15 November 1970, a special event was held at the Brno House of Arts: the so-called “Eight-Hour Exhibition,” which was prepared by Dalibor Chatrný. It included a small collection of props: a 60-meter length of white rope, nine metallic cylinders, and one Perspex cylinder that was 4 cm taller than the others. The event’s attendees connected these elements using a string that started and ended outside the gallery building, suggesting the possibility of extending the exhibition into the outdoors. One week later, the artist returned to the event’s location and created an idealized version of the exhibition that he subsequently documented; his documentation was then published as an artist’s book (graphically executed by Ivan Chatrný). Such signed and self-published books served Dalibor Chatrný and Jiří Valoch as a way of presenting their projects above all during the normalization era of the 1970s, when they were no longer permitted to use galleries for their artworks. J.P.