For any more-than-casual visitor, it’s always interesting to see what others have made of Romania. The country is like nowhere else in Europe – to a visitor it’s more hospitable, more generous, and, for all its bafflingly unspoken codes, apparently less hemmed in by rules and regulations. A note of the surreal hangs over everything:…
| 14/07/2014
The Trafačka artistic collective have been running a countercultural art gallery in the Libeň district of Prague (once home to subversive Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal) since 2007. According to its website: “Trafačka is a creative space, a place for meeting and free expression. At Trafačka it is possible to follow the emerging trends in contemporary…
| 26/05/2014
“I started drawing and writing at the same time: when I was big enough to hold a pencil,” Lucie Lomová recalls. “The oldest drawing of mine I’ve been able to find starts as a written fairytale, then there is an illustration, and it gradually changes into comics.” Lomová was speaking at an event celebrating Europe’s…
| 20/05/2014
“Tuesday 6 May, 7pm (Private view) Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane, London WC2E 7NA Exhibition open: 7 May – 13 June Opening hours: Mon-Thur 10am – 5pm, Fri 10am – 2pm EXHIBITION One of The Eight – Róbert Berény Works from a private collection Curator: Gergely Barki” (HUNGARIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE)
| 02/05/2014