S.d.Ch.: VARLÉN AND HOTEL SUICIDUM | party

The party is a pretext for S.d.Ch. – the author – and Ivan Mečl – Mr Divus – to present and introduce the latest (and so fresh) issue of the series Comics at the Edge of the Existence VARLÉN. The much-awaited Diaries of Prosaic Distress take up with Issues No. 7, 8 and 9, this time published together with the Moravian Gallery in Brno which had no choice but to say yes. Actually the Gallery, located at the Husova Avenue in Brno, welcomed its publication as it freed it from the painful obligation to publish a catalogue. And as a kind of catalogue it serves: for a major exhibiton of the Artist, titled Orbis Varlén and Nothing, to run in the Pražák Palace in the close vicinity of the futuristic hotel Suicidium until the end of September.

What was written about the first six issues may be applied to the latest three. Again, its one-hundred and forty pages put to the test of the scissors edges a duel between the collage comics the comics collage, con- and subconsciousness, post-modern starting points and impasses, phenomenon and phantom, spiritualism and sheer blasphemy, inhuman comedy and intimately chronic tragedy. But something is not the same.

While the Issues 8 & 9 bring the varleniana in the classical vein: antistories, herrszinkian meataphysical crimi stories, metropolitan baedekers, recurrent images, anecdotages and jumbo-coans, the whole Issue No. 7 consists of an independent thirty-page long opus The Czech Varlén, in which the themes of national tragedy and state catastrophe are treated as an adventure of incarnation.

More white spaces give more room to the reader’s own projections!

More apparent intransigence sublimes into more delicate humour!

After the comics the band Ruce naší Dory (Our Dora’s Arms) invites you to its new programme and big beats in the most advanced stage of decadence.

Looking forward to see you. Varlén at a friendly price!