Jan Saudek & Sara Saudek: Retrospettiva 1992-2003

Jan Saudek... The deep devotion of Lenka (Once in the South) (1988). From the exhibition Jan Saudek & Sara Saudek: Retrospettiva 1992-2003 at Mondo Bizzarro Gallery in Rome. "...Jan Saudek was Jewish and having been born in Prague, he lived through the horrors of deportation during World War II. On returning to Prague he was forced to work in secret, hidden in a cellar, where he developed dreams and fantasies whilst living under a rather grey and pragmatic dictatorship. In the seventies he began to "correct" his black and white prints tinting them with watercolours. In his exclusion this "underground man" created an art of dreams, beautifully sad and light: erotic in the most spirited and interesting way. The works of Saudek, are as fascinating and mysterious as Prague itself and have made him one of the greatest living authors. A pillar of twentieth century photographic history.
The surreal world of Jan Saudek is a room with plaster peeling from the walls, which filters the infinite."