The exhibition presents to the public for the first time the private collection of Rony Plesl – a selection of works that accompany him through life as inspiration and a mirror.
The exhibition "What Matters Happens Incidentally" for the first time presents to the public the private collection of Rony Plesl – a selection of works that accompany him throughout his life as inspiration and a mirror. In the Magnus Art Gallery, the pieces from his collection naturally intertwine with his own creations, engaging in a silent dialogue of materials, images, and stories.
The exhibition will showcase, for example, Plesl's triptych inspired by Venetian mirrors, where the designer gathered experiences in one of the oldest family glassworks in the world. It is not a collection built on investment logic, but rather a concentrated map of themes that return to Plesl: transience, spirituality, fragility, strength, silence, and irony.
Rony Plesl is intrinsically connected to glass – as an artist, a teacher at UMPRUM, and a designer with an iconic handwriting. However, his collecting stance is less known: intimate, unpretentious, driven more by inner restlessness than by a "system." The collection, which includes works by Josef Bolf, Ivan Pinkava, Milan Knížák, Patrik Adamec, or Danh Võ, has developed incidentally alongside Plesl's creative line. Yet, it repeatedly raises the theme of transience, memento mori, life, and death.