The universe of Václav Sokol is composed of simple images. Rain falling on the landscape, a ship on the sea, light piercing the darkness, a cluster of grapes, or a glass on a table—these modest motifs are familiar from biblical stories as well as from our own lives. In Sokol’s drawings the old language of symbols comes alive again, a language in which the whole world was once told. Archaic metaphors connected with spiritual and religious experience repeatedly became, in the twentieth century, a language of revolt, an island of resistance. Recall the Madonna of mute pain by Karel Kryl, the sung sermons of Svatopluk Karásek, folk songs interpreted by Jaroslav Hutka, or the poems of Ivan Martin Jirous. Abundance is an old word. We associate it with a land flowing with milk and honey, where our ancestors settled, and with the biblical abundance given by God. Abundance is a blessed measure, a sense of fullness. It means being content with what we already have: spiritual plenitude, inner peace, trust in the future, and a life lived in love and generosity. The exhibition is divided into chapters devoted to rain, water in the sea and in glasses, clusters of grapes, ships, light, houses, churches, and animals. All of these are miracles of life. Sokol’s concentrated body of work reminds us that—despite everything—the world can still be read as a meaningful whole. date and time Mon—Sun 10:00—18:00