Jiří Černický's 'Wild Dreams' exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum explores absurdity and utopian melancholy

From January 27 to April 10, 2016, Jiří Černický's exhibition 'Wild Dreams' was held at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, showcasing 50 works that transformed drawings into sculptures and installations. Among the highlighted pieces were 'Endless Ski Slope' (2016), illustrating a skier atop a spinning snowball, and 'Plough' (2016), which altered a 1980 Lenin statue. The exhibition merged absurdity with B-movie visuals, featuring works like 'Vast Miniatures' (2013) and 'Balcony' (2016), which included a yacht on a model of social housing. Interactive displays such as 'Memorial to the Victims of Religious Repression' (2016) and 'Kinetic Waterfall' (2016) added depth, while Černický's video 'Nobody Readable' (2008–16) depicted him in Times Square, reflecting a struggle between hope and despair.