Josef Honys

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Josef Honys

Josef Honys (born November 10, 1919 in Jičín , Czechoslovakia , † June 24, 1969 in Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak poet , artist and representative of Czech experimental art of the 1960s.

He linked visual arts with texts, dealt with experimental poetry and is the author of visual poems and picture poems . In the field of fine arts he created collages , assemblages and seriages (collages in which the individual elements are arranged according to a predetermined mathematical key). His painting work primarily develops the principle of psychological perception of the line (often on the background of his older works) - evening line, line of the Sphinx, portrait definition by line.

Life

Josef Honys attended the secondary school in Jičín, later he studied mathematics and fine arts at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University. As early as 1937, under the influence of surrealism, he tried to experiment in poetry by using words with multiple meanings, neologisms, signs and drawings. The surrealistic orientation of his artistic attempts is subsequently permeated with experimental poetry - psychologically influenced by subconscious states and dream experiences. In his work he developed experimentally unconventional forms, e.g. B. Text test.

The author's further development was interrupted by the Second World War. After that, especially in the 1950s, he was persecuted by the communist regime and had to work as a henchman for some time. His pictorial works of the late 1960s depict variations of the psychological perception of the line on different backgrounds and their penetrations (mostly oil paintings on cardboard, less on linen or glass), then also series of different collages, assemblages, seriages and hypnomes (abstracted illustration of the Developmental moments of a hypnagogic vision). In 1966 he made his debut at the Obraz a písmo (image and writing) exhibition in Kolín. Due to an administrative error, he was not mentioned in the list of exhibitors, but one of his exhibited works, Karnevalová pozvánka (Carnival Invitation ), was included in the catalog.

In the same year he realized his first major exhibition under the name Hra na čáru (Line Game ). This took place at the end of 1966 in the Prague wine tavern Viola and pictures by Ladislav Novák were exhibited along with his works. Josef Honys exhibited 45 works with the line motif here, including ten double-sided paintings on glass that were hung freely in the room, whereby a different picture emerged when looking through from each side. In March 1968 he and Emil Juliš had an exhibition in the music theater in Ústí nad Labem. He also took part in the exhibition Nová citlivost (New Sensitivity) in the House of Arts in Brno and in the exhibition Premiere inventaire international de la poésie élementaire in the Galerie D. Davy in Paris. In the same year he was involved in the Sign in Space exhibition in Trieste and Venice. During the 1960s he published a number of his works in magazines, especially in Host do domu , Dialog or Sešity . The last exhibition in his life was Expo internacionál de novissima poesia , held in Buenos Aires in March and April 1969.

In 1969 he prepared his first collection of artistic poems, Nesmelián, aneb do experimentálních textů vstup nesmělý, for publication, which was to be published by Dialog-Verlag. The following day after the work was handed over to the editorial office, he had an accident under the tires of a bus, the circumstances of the accident never being clarified. A few months later the publisher was closed and the book could not appear. It only appeared in 2011 after 42 years. The heirs supplemented and expanded the original text to include his other works, which cover the period from the 1930s until his death.

In the political situation in the Czech Republic after 1969, no further exhibitions and publications were possible. However, some works were published post mortem abroad, and there were also some exhibitions. One of the most important is the exhibition Liberarse, Liberarte in Montevideo in Uruguay (the former Czechoslovakia was represented in the exhibition with works by Josef Honys, Ladislav Nebeský and Jindřich Procházka).

In the Czech Republic, Josef Honys was almost forgotten for a long time. The only exception was the Česká vizuální poezie (Czech Visual Poezie) exhibition in Prague in 1975, where he was represented with eight works. Interest in this type of art only increased again in the second half of the 1990s.

In 1997 the exhibition Báseň, obraz, gesto, zvuk: experimentální pooezie 60. let (poem, image, gesture, sound: experimental poetry of the 1960s) took place in Prague in the Strahov Monastery , where Josef Honys was also represented. Some of his works can also be found in the catalog. In 2007, the Smečky Gallery in Prague organized the exhibition of Josef Hampl and Josef Honys under the name Setkání šicího stroje s lokomotivou (Meeting of the Sewing Machine and the Locomotive). A separate catalog of the work of Josef Honys was also printed. In 2008 the same gallery organized the exhibition Básnivá koláž (Poetic Collage). Josef Honys was represented in the exhibition and also in the catalog. In 2014 as part of the exhibition Vy troubo! Seven works by Honys were exhibited per Jiřího Koláře (You boobies for Jiří Kolář) in the castle in Hradec nad Moravicí.

More recently unpublished poems and drawings by Josef Honys were found. Further exhibitions and publications are planned.

Experimental unconventional forms in the factory

  • Text - missed word test
  • Psychological tests that awaken a semantic charge through word deformations
  • Hypnagogic visions, inspired by dream experiences
  • Non-commutative poetry in the form of signs
  • Word strings that link simple drawings and unclear word forms in addition to characters
  • Seriages that add mathematical formulas to work with pictures and drawings
  • Variations in the psychological perception of the line on different backgrounds and their penetrations (mostly oil paintings on cardboard, less on linen or glass)
  • Collages
  • Assemblages
  • Hypnomas - abstract images of the developmental moments of a hypnagogic vision
  • Pictorial poems
  • Visual poems

Exhibitions

  • Czechoslovakia, Kolín, 1966, Muzeum v Kolíně, Obraz a písmo
  • Czechoslovakia, Prague, 1966, viola, Hra na čáru, together with Ladislav Novák.
  • Czechoslovakia, Ústí nad Labem, 1968, Divadlo hudby
  • Czechoslovakia, Brno - Dům umění, Prague - Mánes, Karlovy Vary - Gallery umění, 1968, Nová citlivost. Křižovatka a hosté
  • France, Paris, 1968, Denise Davy Gallery, Premier Inventaire International de la Poesie Elementaire
  • Belgium, Antwerp, 1969, two drawn texts were exhibited here based on the catalog and preserved photos.
  • Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1969, Expo internacionál de novissima poesia
  • Netherlands, Amsterdam, 1970, Stedelijk museum, there are two works in the catalog and also a short résumé of the author.
  • Argentina, La Plata, 1970, in the catalog “De la poesia proceso a la poesia para y / o realizar” a translation from the booklets for literature and discussion from 1969 No. 33 about black happenings appeared. This translation also appeared in other magazines abroad (e.g. in Madrid in 1970)
  • Uruguay, Montevideo, 1970, in the almanac “OVUM 10” the works “Vision g” and “Vision hipnagogica” were published.
  • Helmhaus, Zurich 1970 - text, letter, image
  • Scotland, Edinburg, 1973, NEW 57 Gallery, Typewriter art half a century of experiment
  • Czechoslovakia, Prague, 1975, Institut průmyslového designu, Česká vizuální poezie
  • Netherlands, Utrecht, 1976 in the small almanac “Visuele poezie een historical anthologie (ed. GJde Rook)” is the “Rytířský text” by Honys
  • Poland, Wrocław, 1976, Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu , Czeska i slowacka poezja Betonetna
  • Poland, Lodz, 1978, Visual Texts
  • Czech Republic, Kolín, 1995, Regionální muzeum Kolín, Písmo ve výtvarném umění
  • Czech Republic, Praha, 1997, Strahovský klášter, Báseň, obraz, gesto, zvuk. Experimentální poezie 60th let
  • Czech Republic, Praha, 2007, Smečky Gallery, Setkání šicího stroje s lokomotivou
  • Czech Republic, Praha, 2008, Smečky Gallery, Básnivá koláž
  • Czech Republic, Hradec nad Moravicí, 2014, Castle Gallery “Vy troubo! per Jiřího Koláře "
  • Czech Republic, Teplice, 2014, Regionální muzeum Teplice - Castle Riding School, ČESKÉ MODERNÍ UMĚNÍ 1922–1980
  • Federal Republic of Germany, Karlsruhe, 2016, Concerning Concrete Poetry
  • Czech Republic, Jičín (Jitschin), 2016, Regional Museum and Gallery, independent exhibition
  • Czech Republic, Liberec, 2017, Oblastní galerie Liberec, Písmo v obraze (shift in picture)

Publications

During the 1960s Josef Honys published a number of his works, mainly in the magazines Host do domu , Dialog or Sešity .

In 1969 he prepared his first collection of artistic poems, Nesmelián, aneb do experimentálních textů vstup nesmělý, for publication .

He also contributed to the issue of Experimental Poetry from Czechoslovakia (1970, Linz) of Heimrad Bäcker's magazine Neue Texte .

In 1976, E magazine (USA) published two narrative poems under the name Narrative poem .

His poems Věštírna na nebi (Oracle in Heaven) from 1941 were published in the Internet magazine Wagon in 2007:

Representation in anthologies and literary publications:

  • Experimentální poesie (1967)
  • Vrh kostek (1993)
  • Antology české poezie Part I (2009)
  • In the literary v book Pohledy zblízka - zvuk, význam, obraz (2002)
  • "Pandora" magazine 14/2007
  • "Revolver revue" magazine 68/2007.

Josef Honys as a mountaineer

First ascents in the Prachovské Skály rock complex :

  • 1938 Palcát (eastern route), difficulty level VII (JPK)
  • 1941 Malý zbrojnoš (south-western route), difficulty level V (JPK)

literature

  • Slovník základních pojmů a vybraných technik a metod literárního experimentu. Pandora. 2007, čís. 14, p. 196-210. ISSN  1801-6782 .
  • Nesmelián, aneb, do experimentálních textů vstup nesmělý. 1st edition, Prague: Dybbuk, 2011. 346 s. ISBN 978-80-7438-061-7 .
  • HIRŠAL, Josef. Vínek vzpomínek 2. vyd .. Praha: Rozmluvy, 1991. ISBN 80-85336-00-6 . - on pages 11 and * 22 poems from 1937, published in a student magazine.
  • Pandora kulturně literární revue 14/2007 ISSN  1801-6782
  • Antologie české poezie I. díl (1966–2006), ISBN 978-80-7438-005-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pandora kulturně literární revue 14/2007 ISSN  1801-6782
  2. ↑ Josef Honys. Regionální muzeum a galerie v Jičíně, accessed December 29, 2016 (Czech).
  3. ↑ http://www.almanachwagon.cz/naklad/honys/vestirna.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.skalnioblasti.cz/4_history/5_history_index.asp?history_cmd=7admin&pismeno=H&id=1475
personal data
SURNAME Honys, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech poet, artist and representative of Czech experimental art of the 1960s
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Jičín , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1969
Place of death Ústí nad Labem , Czechoslovakia