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The exhibition “Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd: Retrospective \u2013 Ale\u0161ville” is the first comprehensive retrospective dedicated to the sculptor Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd (1935\u20132015), one of the key figures of Czech post-war art. Vesel\u00fd stood out in particular for his monumental works in public spaces, both in the Czech Republic \u2013 such as the famous sculpture “Gate of No Return” (Prague-Bubny, 2015) \u2013 and abroad, for instance in the German cities of Bochum (1979) and Hamm (1980). In 1970, he acquired a former mill in St\u0159edokluky near Prague, where he built a unique sculptural studio conceived as a complex work of land art. Despite the repressions of the communist regime, it became a place of freedom where he developed his timeless visions of multi-ton sculptures. He placed sculpture models around the site, creating temporary installations and even making music with some of the sculptures. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he became a well-respected professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His most recent realisations include “The Law of Irreversibility”, created in 2015 and installed at the Jewish cemetery in Terez\u00edn. In the same year, he died prematurely, leaving behind an unfinished body of work.<\/p>\n

The word\u00a0Ale\u0161ville<\/i>\u00a0in the exhibition\u2019s title comes from one of Vesel\u00fd\u2019s early drawings and reflects his deep longing to inhabit a world of vast scale. The exhibition in the Great Hall of the Trade Fair Palace will present his gradual transition from human-scale sculptures to monumental conceptions. Previously unknown drawings, prints, and paintings from the 1950s are complemented by expressive structural paintings and welded objects from the 1960s, such as the famous\u00a0Usurper Chair<\/i>\u00a0(1964) and the seven-metre-high\u00a0Kaddish<\/i>, created in the hall of the V\u00edtkovice Ironworks in Ostrava (1967\u20131968).
\nAlso on display will be Vesel\u00fd\u2019s works created in St\u0159edokluky, including crooked carts and compasses from wood and iron, as well as international commissions from the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition also features drawings and models of unrealised projects intended for the desert, on which Vesel\u00fd focused intensively from the 1990s on,\u00a0alongside realised works abroad in the Netherlands, Lithuania, and other countries.
\nThe exhibition is available from 26 September 2025 to 22 February 2026.<\/p>\n

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