Krabice od bot Vladimíra Renčína – Boněk Jan (2013)

The drawings of VLADIMÍR RENČÍN (1941) are among the fundamental and most enduring values of our nation, firmly anchored in Czech culture. Although they are not simple, they appeal to the broadest audience. Renčín is known by everyone, from the president to the garbage collector, from university professors to farmers. This is also what makes it surprising. When he had an exhibition shortly after his fortieth birthday at the Old Town Hall in Prague, over 140,000 people attended. It was probably the first and perhaps the last time this noble building shook with laughter. The Visitor's Book still holds thousands of signatures and hundreds of messages from enthusiastic visitors. The book you hold in your hands is the result of a selection of thoughts, observations, and memories that Vladimír Renčín wrote or said over many years. He was often literally compelled to speak at the openings of his exhibitions and those of his friends, occasionally giving interviews to sympathetic journalists, and he couldn't escape a radio reporter, or he was pushed in front of a television camera to film a program from the GEN series, for example. This often led to almost detective-like searches for sources, because interviews with Vladimír Renčín simply cannot be conducted on command. It is all the more valuable that they will be preserved at least in this form. Vladimír Renčín has the quality...