Paradise Discovered I:

The small village of Želina, which is part of the municipality of Rokle located on the banks of the Ohře River and home to the original Romanesque St. Lawrence Church from the mid-14th century, can be perceived as an environmental oasis with a rich historical memory. Thanks to the collaboration of the Lörincz artistic family and architect Josef Čančík, it has also become a place for dialogue between the local landscape material and contemporary ephemeral architecture.

Painter’s Studio, Josef Čančík

A low-cost wooden construction of a painter’s studio, originally part of  a South Bohemian farmstead, is now part of the Želina barn complex. The experimental wooden structure features “lifted frames” insulated with straw bales. The studio pavilion is compositionally connected to the gable of the barn and “hovers” over the meadow on its foundations.

Children’s Room - Pavlína Jana Lörinczová

The Children’s Room installation works with paintings from the Coloring Book series. The iconographic framework is based on themes from the fairytale The Poppy Maiden (O makové panence), which is generally understood by the generation of the 80s and 90s, to which I belong. I draw inspiration from the liveliness with which a small child throws itself into an experiment with lines and colors, without respecting predefined boundaries. At the same time, it reflects the desire and attempt to meet the child through painting.

Wichterkreuz - Miroslav Lörincz, Josef Čančík - from 14.9.

For centuries, people placed crosses in the landscape. Regardless of the motivation, the cross was always a point of spiritual energy. In the recent past, the landscape around Kadaň suffered many wounds, from which it is still recovering. Its energy was literally extracted, transformed, and sent away. The landscape became dominated by figures of gigantic monsters towering above it. Small crosses, symbolizing the human scale and the dual significance of suffering and blessing, were destroyed and stolen. Mirek Lörincz strives to restore some of them in various ways. He has recently taken on the task of restoring the sandstone base from the area between Rokle and Úhošťany, which lost its cross, with the goal of returning it to its place in the landscape. It will bear a new cross, which will be a memento of the state of the surrounding landscape. The cross will take the form of a lattice structure, similar to a high-voltage power line mast. The change in scale and the golden color offer an ironic commentary. Yet, it remains an ordinary metal cross, much like the oncecommon cast-iron catalog crosses.

Viewpoint Overlooking the City, Miroslav Lörincz

The viewpoint over Kadaň is located on the enclosing wall of the  St. Lawrence Church cemetery in Želina. This lightweight structure made of wooden slats is temporarily placed on the western edge of the freely accessible site. It touches the boundary where worlds meet. It serves as a bridge between eternal rest and the place from where the most beautiful view of the city unfolds.