Rehabilitation Ward of Dr. Dr.

Zdeněk Beran

Zdeněk Beran - Rehabilitation Ward of Dr. Dr.
Zdeněk Beran composed his installation to evoke a hospital room of repulsive, grotesque objects, remnants of hospital equipment, raw materials and mutilated torsos. He expressed a feeling of existentialist threat, hopelessness and personal scepticism reflecting the oppressive atmosphere of the beginnings of the “normalisation” period (the return of oppressive Communism after the invasion of the Soviet-led troops to Czechoslovakia in 1968). He installed his monumental work in Prague’s Karlín quarter, where it remained and gradually decayed until 1992. In 1994, its remnants were buried in a pit in the garden of Bredovský Chateau near Lemberk; in 2011, the artist donated its exhumed remnants to the National Gallery in Prague. The initials in the title refer to psychiatrist Stanislav Drvota, who studied the personal traits of Czech artists of the 1960s in relation to their work.
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material: various materials
technique: remnants of the installation
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inventory number: P 8874
gallery collection: Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art
licence: copyrighted work

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