Jaromir Funke : a pioneer photographer
10/19/2017 - 11/30/2017
Centre culturel tchèque
18 rue Bonaparte
75005 Paris
A pioneer of avant-garde photography, Czech Jaromír Funke (1896-1945), influenced by his compatriot Frantiek Drtikol, produced a fusion of functionalism, new objectivity, abstraction and surrealism in his work. In the 1920s, he ditched views of picturesque landscapes and genre paintings and adopted a more radical approach: abandoning the object, which had no importance for him, he preferred to focus on the interplay of shadows and light or the effects of transparency in quasi-abstract compositions fluctuating between portraiture, landscape and documentary. This exhibition, organised by the curator Vladimír Birgus in collaboration with Miloslava Rupeová, Funke's daughter, reunites the originals of his best known prints and a selection of photographs never shown before.
Centre culturel tchèque
18 rue Bonaparte
75005 Paris
A pioneer of avant-garde photography, Czech Jaromír Funke (1896-1945), influenced by his compatriot Frantiek Drtikol, produced a fusion of functionalism, new objectivity, abstraction and surrealism in his work. In the 1920s, he ditched views of picturesque landscapes and genre paintings and adopted a more radical approach: abandoning the object, which had no importance for him, he preferred to focus on the interplay of shadows and light or the effects of transparency in quasi-abstract compositions fluctuating between portraiture, landscape and documentary. This exhibition, organised by the curator Vladimír Birgus in collaboration with Miloslava Rupeová, Funke's daughter, reunites the originals of his best known prints and a selection of photographs never shown before.