Štěpán Zavřel Museum
A small path to explore the world of Master Štěpán Zavřel, made up of colours, matter, sediments, ideas and dreams. It is the Štěpán Zavřel Museum located in the heart of the town of Sarmede, the Town Hall, frescoed by the illustrator friend Józef Wilkoń.
The Štěpán Zavřel Museum is symbolically located in the centre of the village of Sarmede, as a reference and homage to the man who gave impetus to the transformation of this corner of the world. In 2016, the museum space was redesigned and renewed in terms of content under the care of Mexican artist Gabriel Pacheco. ‘Štěpán Zavřel, an artist of air and stone, who always looked to the sky like an ancient pilgrim guided by the stars, sought out and transformed rock, leaving traces of this exodus of existence in each of his works, making his faith pass through them’: this is Gabriel Pacheco’s reading. The museum is therefore the place to explore Zavřel’s world, ‘a small journey through his sediments, his colours, his materials, his ideas and his dreams’.
Frescoes by Józef Wilkoń, Municipio di Sarmede| Ph Otium
Štěpán Zavřel, an artist of air and stone, who always looked to the heavens like an ancient pilgrim guided by the stars, sought out and transformed rock, leaving traces of this exodus of existence in each of his works, making his faith pass through them.Gabriel Pacheco
The collection
The sixty original works have been organised in six sections to bring to light the aspects of innovation and contemporaneity: Stone and Wood, Canon and Poetics, Colours and Reflections, Memory and Material, The Artist, Air and Minerals, The Other Modernity. The Museum’s headquarters is the Sarmede Town Hall, a building that over the years has been transformed by the creative spirit that permeates these places. There is no corner on which the imagination has not left its traces: from the external sundial, the work of Zavřel himself, marking the passing of time, to the arches of the façade that pay homage to local saints, from the fairy-tale world of the wall paintings and wood and metal sculptures at the entrance to the fresco in the Council Chamber, the work of the Polish illustrator Józef Wilkoń. To enter the Council Chamber is to discover a world suspended between reality and fantasy, between smiling and sly imaginary creatures. A multi-handed work that bears the powerful imprint of Štěpán Zavřel and his friend and contemporary Józef Wilkoń.
Animated illustration: Štěpán Zavřel, The Angry Neighbor from “Il ponte dei bambini”, Bohem Press Italia, Trieste, 2022
Virtual Museum
A virtual tour to discover the museum dedicated to Štěpán Zavřel directly from home. The section provides access to an immersive, virtual museum setting and allows visitors to view some of the Czech artist’s works currently on display at the museum. Navigation within the virtual rooms is a useful tool for those unfamiliar with the museum and foundation collection and visiting them for the first time.
Using the mouse and keyboard, clicking on the hotspots inserted in the rooms and navigating the interactive maps, the visit is deepened with contextual elements: images, audio and informative texts that enrich the virtual path freely chosen by the visitor. A didactic and cognitive place, where the real and the imaginary meet to give life to new ways of learning and entertainment, interactively experiencing the new opportunities that multimedia technology offers to the enjoyment of the artistic heritage.
The visit, accessible remotely, can be enjoyed on any type of device, including mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Interiors of the Štěpán Zavřel Museum | Ph Otium
Štěpán Zavřel
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