We are delighted to invite you to join us at the following events:
The Incredible Lightness of Being: Jiri Pelcl – Czech Design
Exhibition 7 January–20 February 2012
University of Brighton Gallery, Grand Parade
University of Brighton honorary graduate, Professor Jirí Pelcl is a leading Czech designer whose innovative and exciting work has been recognised internationally for more than two decades. He has received many highly prestigious design awards, invitations to lecture around the world and has had more than 20 solo and 110 group exhibitions globally. His place as an influential figure in design futures is conveyed through the work of a selection of present and former students included as the conclusion to the exhibition.
University of Brighton Gallery, Grand Parade
University of Brighton honorary graduate, Professor Jirí Pelcl is a leading Czech designer whose innovative and exciting work has been recognised internationally for more than two decades. He has received many highly prestigious design awards, invitations to lecture around the world and has had more than 20 solo and 110 group exhibitions globally. His place as an influential figure in design futures is conveyed through the work of a selection of present and former students included as the conclusion to the exhibition.
Czech Design – Independent, Free and Democratic? The Pelcl Symposium
One-day symposium: 20 January 2012
The Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade
The British premiere of much of Jirí Pelcl’s recent work in the University of Brighton Gallery provides an opportunity to study his work at first hand as well as the platform for a one-day symposium. Drawing on original contributions from design professionals, design critics, theorists and historians from the Czech Republic and the UK, the symposium will consider the ways in which Czech design horizons have changed since the mid 1980s when the ideologies of the Eastern Bloc began to undergo change and challenge. The emergence of a new democratic state has not been without its problems for design.
The Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade
The British premiere of much of Jirí Pelcl’s recent work in the University of Brighton Gallery provides an opportunity to study his work at first hand as well as the platform for a one-day symposium. Drawing on original contributions from design professionals, design critics, theorists and historians from the Czech Republic and the UK, the symposium will consider the ways in which Czech design horizons have changed since the mid 1980s when the ideologies of the Eastern Bloc began to undergo change and challenge. The emergence of a new democratic state has not been without its problems for design.
Speakers will include: Jirí Pelcl (AAAD, Prague), Sylva Petrova (Director of the Institute for International Research in Glass, University of Sunderland), David Crowley (Royal College of Art, London), Jyri Kermik (University of Brighton), Dagmar Koudelkova (AAAD, Prague), Martina Pachmanova (AAAD, Prague), Iva Knobloch (UPM, Prague) and Professor Jonathan Woodham.
The symposium fee is £50 (including lunch and refreshments), although we are delighted to offer the concessionary rate of £25 to University of Brighton alumni and £18 to retired or unemployed University of Brighton alumni.
An exhibition of student work from Design and Craft at the University of Brighton entitled DOING will accompany the show. DOING will illustrate the shift of emphasis from traditional disciplines to symbiosis and interdisciplinary partnerships within and around design and crafts.
Please visit http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/jiri-pelcl for further details.
Please visit http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/jiri-pelcl for further details.
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