The theater of sensual dreams; romance and fantasy in the portrait art of Jan Saudek. The Czech Republic has long been a land of mystery and magic, home to alchemists, artists, and the original bohemians, all of them weavers of spells, creators of fantastic worlds of the imagination. For over four decades Saudek has created a parallel photographic universe, a two-dimensional home full of longing, peopled with the characters and colored by desire. The timeless strength of his hand-tinted photographs lies in their poetic compositions and their forceful - at times ribald - pictorial language, with its overtones of medieval genre pictures and Baroque mythology. Rejecting the traditional beauty in his famous nude photographs, Saudek shows the distinctively different; old women, fat women, children; real people in tableaux vivants that remind us of everything from surreal early movies to fin-de-siecle carnival nights. They exist outside time, a uniquely colored and almost mythical theater of dreams. Covering his debut in the 1950s through his lesser-known work to recent images.