Traditionally offering free European Heritage Days tours, the Czech Republic’s Olomouc Museum of Art once again invites for an art discovery experience. On Friday, 8th September, 2017 the museum will organise a special night tour that will close with an exhibition showcasing masterpieces of Czech hyperrealism in painting.

Between 7 and 10 p.m., guests will have an opportunity to enjoy the museum’s rich collections and also tour the inventive Fascination with Reality exhibition. Focusing on hyperrealism in Czech art, the exhibition explores perceptions of reality in a post-modern world and celebrates the radical visual play hyperrealists have introduced into art.

Building upon the Angloamerican visual traditions of 1960s, the pioneers of hyperrealism in Czech art such as Zdeněk Beran, Pavel Nešleha and Theodor Pištěk, as well as some later authors including Pavel Holas, Adam Kašpar and Hynek Martinec, sought to offer new interpretations of reality in the rapidly changing late 20th century world. The exhibition itself is an intriguing narrative that poses various questions about modern culture and acts as a testimony to the work of some of the most inspiring Czech painters.

Photo: Minul čas, Nešleha

Fascination with Reality is on display at Olomouc Museum until 10th August and will be reopened specifically for European Heritage Days. On this occasion, the visitors will be allowed into the museum for free, while touring the exhibition will be a form of a closing party of the two-day festival.

European Heritage Days in the Czech Republic will be held on 8th and 9th September, when the variety of public heritage sites and private historic buildings will offer free admissions. The opening event will be held on 9th September in Chrudim, a historic town in eastern Bohemia, while the traditional European Heritage Days exhibition Bearers of the Tradition of Folk Crafts will begin a day before.

Photo credits: http://www.muo.cz