Braník Pantomime Theatre
“I jumped into that headfirst. First I was a sportsman, then a visual artist. I was in no way an exhibitionist, but my physiognomy made people laugh and that kept me going,” Najbrt recalls. Connection with the cast of the Prague Five, especially the Sklep theatre, had far-reaching consequences. Some people played a significant role in Najbrt’s further life with the example of their positive humanism (David Vávra), others as long-time friends, colleagues and clients (Jan Slovák, Tomáš Vorel, Tomáš Hanák, Václav Marhoul, Robert Nebřenský etc.). “The irony and the exaggeration. Mocking absolutely everything – only a handful of visual artists could do that. Suddenly I wanted my works to have the content and atmosphere of the theatres, where I started to move around.” In the mid-1980s, centre of physical theatre of semi-amateur groups, as well as performances by stars like Boris Hybner or Bolek Polívka, was at a theatre in Prague 4. It was also the home of the Prague Five. Najbrt cheerfully populated the characteristic portal, which Braník citizens built in the 1920s, with a stratum of pre-Sklep, abstract pantomime animals.
1989 Aleš Najbrt
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK