Zahradní ateliér / Garden Atelier

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The Forfest festival appeared at the international stage in the first half of 1990s with a specialized conception linking the progressive contemporary music efforts with fine arts, which in a new, actual way touch substantial spiritual themes of art history. It really is a unique undertaking in this aim, even in the present decade. The program setting reflects world authors’ works in a relatively broad philosophical present time panorama. Thus the area for an important dialogue is restored between art and today’s largely consumption society, a dialogue of the main world religions, which includes smart current problems, from culture and fundamentalism differences or in another way motivated intolerance contributing to world division, misunderstanding among nations, weakening of the function of culture. In lots of concerts, workshops, lectures, exhibition projects and performances it purposefully observes the growing art endangering as a culture phenomena - it becomes a controversy to make postmodernism more academic, the loss of a contact with public, impersonalization of the very essence of art as a human message of mankind, The purpose is to return the sense of positive values back to the place, which has belonged to it since times immemorial and belongs to it at present...

Zdenka and VácIav Vaculovič