A new book by the artist Jiří Sozanský, Post Scriptum, is being published. It will be presented during the Open Day at the House of Pážat on 19 June 2021 at 4 pm. On this occasion, Jiří Sozanský will also exhibit a series of ten paintings inspired by the life stories of Franz Kafka and his sisters who were victims of the Holocaust. The exhibition will also be open on 19 June 2021 from 10am to 5pm.
The extensive book Post Scriptum documents the artistic output of Jiří Sozanský, including drawings, prints, oils, sculptures and collages from the 1970s to the most recent works. The extensive text section includes the artist's memories of his childhood and adolescence during the totalitarian period, his civic attitudes and artistic development, and his encounters with personalities who influenced him up to the present day. Significant is the textual and visual image of his mother, which does not fulfil the usual expectations; it is more a record of his professional life in unfavourable or less unfavourable times, which began before his longed-for and won entry to the Academy of Fine Arts. The mother in the book is not a rescue, an idyllic force, a sentimental memory. It is an existing fact of life, it cannot be denied, nor transcended, nor idealized. Yet the book is a tribute to the mother.
