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VOL.2. EDITION 2012 N.02. BI-MONTHLY GALLERY GUIDE IN THE CEE REGION • RADAR – PUBLIC BENEFIT ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN ART
Jan Lukas: New York Diary 1966–1990
For the following decades, streets and
America, nor to New York, but to the Island
nists; many Peroutka’s colleagues, such as Ra-
4 May–17 June 2012
people of New York became an inexhaust-
of Manhattan.
dio Free Europe’s staffer Jiří Planner; politician and journalist Ivo Ducháček, well known from
ible source and object of his photographic travel. Pictures taken in this period were
There he met many friends, some of whom had
Martin Čermák’s programme Notebook (Zápis-
later collected in several books and exhibi-
gone into exile before the Second World War,
ník) of the Voice of America; Alexander Ham-
When in 1966 Czech photographer Jan Lukas
tion assemblages (The Islanders, New York
others had emigrated after the 1948 communist
mid and Ladislav Kolda from Zlín; the legendary
(born 1915 in České Budějovice, died 2006 in
1987; Amerika nach Kafka, Praha 1993; exhi-
takeover. Among them were the family of Radio
actor Jiří Voskovec; doctor Karel Steinbach,
New York) moved from Europe to USA with
bition Pompeii/Manhattan, Praha 2002). He
Free Europe’s political commentator Ferdinand
beloved by all, and others. In their home coun-
his whole family, he was already over fifty.
always stressed that he had not emigrated to
Peroutka, passionately hated by the commu-
try all these people were officially considered
LEICA GALLERY, Prague Czech Republic
to be traitors and as such intended to be erased from national memory. In addition to them Jan Lukas portrayed also visitors from his home country, such as Jiří Šlitr, whom he met in the early times of Semafor theatre. In 1968 he accompanied and photographed young Václav Havel during his journey to Czech exile celebrities, and years after in 1999 again. His black and white portraits of friends as well as casual snapshots offer glimpses of Czech America of 60’, 70’ and 80’, a look at a diverse community, Czech people were aware of only through foreign radio broadcasts and smuggled exile literature. The motley mixture of races and cultures, the unrepeatable and ever changing atmosphere of the American city, was captured by him in colours as well. In these compositions he advanced his lifetime endeavour to express the beauty, as well as the dark side of the world. New York diary 1966–1999 exhibition probes into this large, but little known part of Jan Lukas’ artistic legacy.
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Photo © Jan Lukas, Manhattan, 70th.
Text: © Jan Mlčoch, curator
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