At the end of 2019, the Gallery of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications published a publication reflecting the first year of the new gallery in Zlin. The book, Irretrievable Traces, is a reflection on the theme of Tradition and Sustainability and was based on the exhibitions that took place in the G18 Gallery. The launch of the publication will take place on Wednesday 22 January at 6 PM in the G18 Gallery.
The publication Irretrievable Traces explores tradition and sustainability in the themes of food, craft, home, landscape and education – and develops them from the perspective of current art, design and their institutionalisation. Helena Maňasová Hradská, Miroslav Zelinský, Petra Valentová, Vít Jakubíček, Romana Veselá and Eva Gartnerová contributed their texts to the book.
Nowadays, it is only natural that we all take notice of climate change, natural disasters and their social consequences. We are trying to take personal responsibility and find ways in which we can each help to improve the situation for ourselves. The role of designers and artists in this process is more than significant, and its reflection and issues are the focus of this now published book.
Irreversible Traces is very loosely related to the publication Design in the Service of Sustainable Development, published by the Faculty of Multimedia Communications in 2017
– it deals with the possibilities of design in the inevitable reversal of the direction of civilization and follows the tendencies towards sustainability also within the history of design.
Together with the book Irretrievable Traces, we will also christen the catalogue Reason versus Feeling, which was created for an exhibition on Zlin industrial design in the period 1918-1958 in cooperation with the
Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlin.
