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The Pigeon House exhibition with the lightness of a feather points out the inhabitants of the city who are not welcomed by society
The artistic installation Holubí dům by the academic painter Milady Gabrielová in the Mini Gallery at the Faculty of Architecture of the BUT points to the existence of feathered city dwellers who often provoke negative reactions. Pigeons and other birds become unwanted. Arming cities against them. Foliage is a poetic shorthand for the flight, the cry, the shadow of urban birds. The installation is a continuation of the Golden Cage project from 1986, which sparked political discussions in its time.
The Pigeon House wants to be a poetic shorthand for the flight, scream, shadow of urban birds. The Pigeon House reflects reality, but he would like to dematerialize, clean and clarify it. He is not looking for external form, but quiet moments like the fall of a bird's feather. The pigeon house is made of foils made from wrapping foil and found bird feathers.
"The idea of ??the pigeon house arose in autumn 2020 when I created the Foliovník installation for the MINI Gallery in the front garden of the Faculty. Then, in addition to the paper and plastic "waste", I stuck some feathers in the foils. Since then, I have persistently collected feathers dropped by birds.
I also follow up on the work from 1986, which was called The Golden Cage, it was also hung, first in the interior, later in the exterior. It was made of strips of cut-out paper, because something as amazing as stretch film didn't exist back then," says the author of the exhibition akad. he had Milada Gabrielová.
In 1986, the artist created a similar object in the MINIHERNA Gallery in Dejvice, Prague. This gallery was created unofficially, directly partisan, and its life was not long. On the other hand, several interesting exhibitions took place in it, in silence, without much notice. The object named GOLDEN CAGE was inspired by a dream. It was a cutout made to measure for the room. Something between a cage and a labyrinth, cut-out paper painted yellow and gold.
The Golden Cage Installation
The object was exhibited once more, at Confrontation VII in the fall of 1987, outdoors, in the set behind Milan Perič's estate in Svárov in Kladno. "This confrontation is not reported in some sources, who knows why. Milan Perič was almost kicked out of the Academy because of her", points out Milada Gabrielová. "During this event, the building was destroyed by heavy rain. After all, it was a cage, get rid of it", he adds.
You can see the Pigeon House photo exhibition in the Mini Gallery in the building of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Technology in Brno, Poříčí 5, 639 00 Brno until 7.10. 2022.