Jan Svankmajer – Kunstkamera (2022)

An astonishing array of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, objects and materials fill room after room – but this is not a museum open to the general public. It is the home of the celebrated artist couple Jan Svankmajer and his late wife Eva, situated in the Czech Republic’s Horni Stankov Castle.

“Why did I make this film? Historical experience tells us that all the kunstkammer that have been created up to these days have been dismantled and sold off or destroyed after the death of their creators For example, the Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor collection and most recently André Breton’s kunstkammer. Yet these are unique documents of the state of the imagination at that time. Official museums cannot replace these collections because they lack personal commitment,” says Jan Švankmajer, explaining the motivation for making his latest film.

Kunstkamera is a walk through the castle and former granary in Horní Staňkov, where Švankmajer’s Kunstkamera is installed. However, it is not a Kunsthistorical film in the true sense of the word, but a film of the magical atmosphere of this collection and the environment in which it is located. The film is not simply a presentation of the exhibits; the artefacts are photographed with the added value of Švankmajer’s imaginative viewpoint in the “ordering of objects and interpretation, and not just verbal interpretation. “The Wunderkabinet that I am attempting to install at the Horní Staňkov castle should include the following range of choices: the art of natural peoples (Africa), l’art brut (especially the work of mediumists), the Archimboldesque principle, alchemy, natural history. Magic and surrealism should be the pins,” adds Jan Švankmajer.

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