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The exhibition will present a selection of works donated by the Sammlung Hoffman to the Dresden State Art Collections as well as chosen artworks from the National Gallery Prague and private collections related to contemporary Czech artistic production. At the entrance to the exhibition, the titular work by filmmaker Jan Švankmajer marks a broad spectrum of questions: his surrealist animated film from 1982 interrogates fundamental themes such as love and pain, loss and death, aggression and fear, but also tragedy and comedy, chaos and formation and ultimately art itself.