Poster made by the artist in collaboration with the Czech and Slovak pavilion in occasione of the 56th Biennale di Venezia. "The departure point of Jiří David's site-specific installation "Apotheosis" (2015) is the monumental painting Apotheosis of the Slave: Slavs for Humanity (1926) by the Czech Secessionist artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939). This, the last in the series The Slav Epic (1911-1926), consisting of twenty large canvases with a distinct romantic sentiment, is the culmination of Mucha's heroic saga on the history of the Czechs and the Slavic nations, which he created in honour of the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. [...] David's gesture of appropriation and reinterpretation of Mucha's work, represented by a black and white reworking of the original image, simultaneously constitutes an act of deconstruction enhanced by his subtle intervention in the individual parts of the composition in the form of apocrypha."

Sitography: ARTEXT, "Czech Pavilion. Jirí David "Apotheosis". Pavilion at Giardini", www.artext.it
www.artext.it/Artext/Jir%C3%AD-David.html

BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, "Jiří David, Apotheosis", www.artsandculture.google.com
artsandculture.google.com/story/ji%C5%99%C3%AD-david-apotheosis/nAVh0sfYs0xKIw

E-FLUX, "Jiří David. Apotheosis", www.e-flux.com, 6/05/2015.
www.e-flux.com/announcements/29576/ji-david/

NGP, "Jiří David: Apotheosis", www.ngprague.cz, 2016
www.ngprague.cz/en/event/121/jiri-david-apoteoza-1