Adam Stech

Adam Stech

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    Light Infusion at Dvorak Sec Gallery, Prague

    Conceptual artist Jiří Černický manipulates studio Olgoj Chorchoj's lighting designs for a spectacular show

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    Artist Jiří Černický and designers Michal Froňk and Jan Němečk—of studio Olgoj Chorchoj—joined forces for “Light Infusion” (an exhibition now on view at Prague’s Dvorak Sec Gallery). This collaborative show features the designers’ existing lighting pieces manipulated by one of the Czech Republic’s most prolific conceptual artists. The different forms of light—from neon to traditional lightbulbs, candlelight, video of lightning and symbols of extraterrestrial or …

    Hélène Binet Captures a Hidden Architectural Gem in Cyprus

    The Swiss photographer explores the untouched family home of modernist designer Neoptolemos Michaelides

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    The modernist work of the late Cypriot architect Neoptolemos Michaelides fuses Brutalism, ancient architecture and the leisure of Mediterranean living. Michaelides studied under great architects like Gio Ponti and Bruno Zevi in the 1940s, but his distinctive style remained relatively unknown to the international public. An exhibition at Nicosia’s Point Centre for Contemporary Art is changing that. “We wanted to focus upon the outstanding work …

    Naše Maso: Our Meat, Prague

    A Czech butcher-meets-bistro that pushes tradition, with tasty results

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    Naše Maso (meaning: Our Meat) is František Kšána Jr’s latest project, opening earlier this year in the old center of Prague. It’s a butcher shop, meets deli, meets bistro—and the popularity of the venue proves the combination is working. “I started to do butchery when I was 13 years old. I helped my father who was also a butcher. All my knowledge about meat I …