“The End of the Black-and-White Era” is not a comprehensive title for the years 1939⁠–⁠2021 but rather a slogan summarizing an approach that seeks to avoid premature ideological appraisal of the surveyed material from this often painful time. The aim is to show that art has always included multiple and parallel conceptions of artistic quality. The basic polarities of the art of those times ⁠–⁠ official and unofficial, abstract and figurative, formal and socially engaged ⁠–⁠ mutually conditioned each other’s existence but almost never existed as black-and-white maximums.

The permanent exhibition at the Trade Fair Palace in Prague presents art as testimony of the times: the result of not only purely authorial but also social, political, and economic forces. It consists of more than 300 works solely from the collection of the NGP without any loans.

Read more: https://www.ngprague.cz/en/event/3672/konec-cernobile-doby-ceske-umeni-1939-2021