Photo: Ian Willoughby, Radio Prague International
Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000 is the name of a major new exhibition at Prague’s Kunsthalle gallery. It focuses on Paris in the Left Bank days, swinging London and 1970s New York – but also lesser-known scenes, including the Prague of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková. I discussed the new show with US-based curator Russell Ferguson.
It’s a fantastic exhibition, with works from so many countries and periods. What qualities to these works share?
“They share a relationship to the fundamental idea of what it is to live a bohemian lifestyle.
“But at the same time I was actually looking for ways in which the different cities and the different time periods showed differences in how bohemia is manifested in different periods.
“So a key idea in the exhibition is to show both that bohemia can be represented in different forms in different places, but at the same time to show that there are continuities that run all the way through, and that people are aware of other bohemian scenes and take some context from that.”
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Author: Ian Willoughby