Name: Curators' Open House
Start: 2019-03-21T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2019-03-21T19:30:00-07:00
Location: USC Fisher Museum of Art

Curators' Open House

Discover art spanning five centuries at USC Fisher Museum of Art, the first museum established in the city of Los Angeles that was opened as an art museum and remains solely dedicated to the exhibition and collection of fine art in its original location.

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<H2>Join the curators of Suppression, Subversion, and the Surreal for an exhibition walkthrough, followed by an intimate reception with a live performance of Louis Armstrong's timeless compositions to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the late musician's historic tour of Prague. </H2>
 
About the exhibition:
Suppression, Subversion and the Surreal: The Art of Czechoslovakian Resistance.
This student-curated exhibition features a selection of prints and photographs from the Dr. Eugene Rogolsky Collection, which was gifted to Fisher in 2015. Suppression, Subversion and the Surreal explores the impact of oppressive governance on artistic expression through the works of five Czechoslovakian artists, creating art before, during, and after the Soviet occupation of what is presently known as the Czech Republic.
The prints and photographs included in this exhibition were produced during a period fraught with social and political tension. Despite state censorship and isolationist policies, these artists were determined to make art no matter what. Stripped of all privacy and creative freedom, they turned to the idiosyncratic and imaginary realm of the psyche, the only remaining inviolable space. Employing surreal observations, distinguished by disorienting or hallucinatory qualities, artists resisted government censorship to explore subjects relating to the human body, sexuality and eroticism, temporality, and art historical references.
The artists featured in Suppression, Subversion, and the Surreal: The Art of Czechoslovakian Resistance include printmakers Jiří Anderle and Oldřich Kulhánek, and photographers Pavel Baňka, Václav Chochola, and Jan Saudek. Their unique approaches to representing the human form offer a window into the psyche of these artists at a time when their avenues of personal expression were censored.

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