Kupka and Caricature – Mirrors of Truth
[vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="14/6 – 12/10 2025" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Kupka and Caricature – Mirrors of Truth" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="František Kupka and Satirical Drawing in Paris 1900" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row content_text_aligment="" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This exhibition is part of a series of exhibitions dedicated by Museum Kampa to the themes, aspects, and contexts of the work of František Kupka. The last in the series was the 2017 exhibition Neighbours in Art: Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Villon and František Kupka, and in 2018, on the centenary of the founding of the Republic, the exhibition František Kupka: Legionnaire and Patriot. This year's exhibition will present the artist's work during the "golden age" of satirical magazines. Although Kupka is primarily known as one of the first to step towards non-figurative art, his satirical work, at first glance diametrically opposed to his later concepts, is in many aspects a substantial part of the artist's oeuvre. Although Kupka later distanced himself from this work from the perspective of his new orientation, there is no doubt that the subversive environment of Montmartre, where he not only lived at the beginning of the last century, but into which he integrated, strengthened his sense of non-conformist solutions, even if in this case it was tied to a satirical critique of social conditions. Other artists of the later "classical avant-garde" also went through this process, such as his aforementioned friend and neighbour, Jacques Villon. There is no doubt that it was through this work, both combative and scandalous, that he entered the public space in Paris, in his native Bohemia, and in Vienna, the city associated with his first successes. Magazine satirical drawings have become a powerful means of visual communication with their ability to provide information quickly and concisely, to „humour“ the problems of modern life while retaining a "touch of