Exhibition - ONE LIGHT

26. 3. 2013

4th April – 29th April 2013 daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The slype of the Church of Saint Michael
(Žerotínovo náměstí, Olomouc)

Jan Budař is a patron of the whole project.

EXHIBITION OPENING: 3rd April 2013 at 5 p.m. in the presence of Jindřich Štreit, authors of the tiles and Jan Budař, patron of the project.

Within the exhibition opening there will be a miniconcert of Jan Budař and Roman Jedlička.

Jindřich Štreit

A well-known and talented photographer, university teacher, curator and organizer of cultural life. Since 1967, Jindřich Štreit has prepared more than 900 authorial exhibitions, he has participated in more than 300 exhibitions in four continents of the world and participated in many international workshops and symposiums. He published 29 books, he is included in the most important collections and several films about him were shot. From 4th to 29th April, his large format photographs will be shown at the exhibition titled One Light. It will take place in the slype of the Church of Saint Michael in Olomouc, within the project Paschalia Olomucensia.

"When Ilona Kulíkova addressed me to participate with my pictures in this exhibition which is, at the same time, an exhibition of ceramics created by clients of the Gaudium Day Care Center, I did not hesitate for a single moment. It is a great joy and honor for me to share an exhibition with artists who perceive the world around them in an amazing way and are able to depict it in such a unique way. When I saw their products for the first time, I was enchanted and impressed. What can be more beautiful than to see the world with guileless eyes and a pure heart? If only we were capable of that.“

Jan Budař

Olomouc will welcome a favorite and important personality of the Czech cultural scene - JAN BUDAŘ - an original creator who works in different genres, fields and spheres of entertainment. On Wednesday 3rd April at 5 p.m., he will open the exhibition titled "One Light" in the Church of Saint Michael. It will present large format photographs by Jindřich Štreit and ceramic tiles created by handicapped people. A miniconcert of Jan Budař and Roman Jedlička will be part of the exhibition opening.

Jan Budař is well-known, above all, as an actor. But, to the same extent, he is capable as a director, screenwriter and, last but not least, a musician. He plays several musical instruments, he composes music and sings his original songs. With his group called "Eliščin band" he has issued four albums altogether and his name is connected also with film music (e.g. Lidice, Protektor, Nuda v Brně, Hrubeš a Mareš and others).

He showed his art as an actor in movies like Nuda v Brně, Vratné lahve, Václav or Horem pádem. He posseses four statuettes of Česky lev (2003 - twice, as an actor and a screenwriter, 2004, 2007). He has acted in a number of Czech and Moravian theaters – National Theater Brno, Husa na provázku, Karlovy Vary City Theater, National Theater, Na zábradlí or Klicperovo divadlo in Hradec Králové.
Apart from that, his name is under many articles in the Instinkt magazine.

"Madman"

"If somebody thinks he is a madman, people around him often kindly try to talk him out of that.
Then those "madmen" do not know where the truth is.
Should they trust themselves or other people?
Are they "madmen" or not?
Then, there are people, about whom everybody says they are madmen. And nobody tries to talk them out of that.
Mostly, not even madmen themselves, because they have altogether different definitions of the reality and truth than we do – common "madmen".
And somewhere in between, there is everything else.
Our lives are full of surprises. Surprises filled with hope. Hope hidden in pain. Pain yearning for love.
Love in the smiles of madmen.
We all are one light.“