Martin Stejskal

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Martin Stejskal (born February 19, 1944 in Prague ) is a Czech painter, graphic artist and publicist.

Life

Surrvirtual

Stejskal graduated from the art school in Prague. In 1963 he made friends with the poet Karel Šebek , who introduced him to surrealism . As a painter and graphic artist, Stejskal has been working mainly surrealist since the 1960s and has been involved in the collective activities of the Skupina surrealistů v ČSR (German group of surrealists in Czechoslovakia ) since the 1960s . At that time he was taking part in regulated psychiatric experiments with hallucinogenic drugs . After the Soviet occupation in 1968, he was unable to exhibit in Czechoslovakia for a long time.

Stejskal is the author of an interpretive method known as “contouring” and illusions broken down into phases. In recent years he has also been using the computer for his creative work, both for static images, which he calls digitages, and for computer animation. In addition to his artistic work, he is the author of several books on mysterious places in Czechoslovakia and on local demonological legends.

Exhibitions

Stejskal exhibited at various collective exhibitions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, Great Britain and the USA. There it is also represented in several public and private collections.

  • Game against "Game" (Hra proti "hře"), Kunsthaus Brno , 1972
  • Peintures et dessins , Gal. L'envers du miroir, Paris , 1972
  • Detected sites ( Vymezená místa ), Agricultural Museum, Lednice , 1985
  • Imagination of Space , Chmelnice Junior Club, Prague, 1985
  • Backward to Infinite I ( Zadem k nekonečnu I ), Palace of Culture, Prague, 1990
  • Two Czech Surrealists (with J. Švankmajer), Cabinet H. Beekman, Alkmaar , 1992
  • Short cuts and quarrels ( Zkraty & sváry ), Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, 1994
  • To hit or not to hit? , ( Bít či nebít? ), Gal. Shamballa, Copenhagen , 1998
  • Chronicle (Prags) of the end of the millennium ( Kronika Prahy z konce tisíciletí ), Gal. Ungula, Prague 2000
  • Backward to Infinity II ( Zadem k nekonečnu II ), Gal. Cheb, Hradec Králové , Cheb , Písek , Nová Paka , 2003-4
  • Through the back door to infinity ( Zadem k nekonečnu ), Remscheid City Gallery , 2004
  • Think the dragon ( Myslet draka ), Galerie města Trutnova, 2006
  • Digitages ( Digitáže ), Gal. Dračí ulička Trutnov , 2007
  • First and Last ( První a poslední ), Gal. E. Juliše Černčice-Louny, 2010

bibliography

  • Maisons (Domy), 14 lithographs with poems Vincent Bounoure, Editions surréalistes, Paříž 1976
  • Labyrintem tajemna , Paseka (1991)
  • Hvězda (Pokus o vymezení letohrádku jako filosofického obydlí) , Volvox Globator (1994)
  • Secrets of Magical Prague , Dauphin (1996), CS, DE, ENG, FR
  • Cesty za hvězdou , Paseka (2001)
  • Rovnomoc , Torst (2002)
  • Praga hermetica , Eminent (2004)
  • Labyrintem míst klatých , Eminent (2011)
  • Zadem k nekonečnu - monograph (2003)
  • Secret Prague , Jonglez Paris (2013), 2.ed. 2018
  • Stella alchimica (Skrytý význam výzdoby letohrádku Hvězda podle podání starých hermetických autorů) , Malvern (2015)
  • Skoronoc , Malvern (2017)
  • Tarot Alchymicus T. Abbae , card game, Latin and English, Vodnář (2018)
  • Labyrintem alchymie v českých zemích: Osobnosti, symboly, lokality, pověsti a jejich interpretace , Eminent (2020).

literature

  • V. Effenberger: The Shape of Illusionary Transformations. Arts International, 1971.
  • Adam Biro, René Passeron: Dictionnaire général du Surréalisme et de ses environs . Office du livre Friborg 1982, ISBN 2130372805 , ISBN 9782130372806 . OCLC 9230905, p. 385.
  • Pavla Pečinková: Contemporary Czech painting . [s. l.]: Craftman House, (Australia), 1993. 235 p. ISBN 9768097256 , ISBN 9789768097255 . OCLC 29876123 pp. 158-161.
  • Umění zastaveného času : České muzeum výtvarných umění v Praze, říjen-listopad 1996; Česká výtvarná scene 1969-1985. České muzeum výtvarných umění v Praze, Prague 1996, ISBN 80-7056-050-9 . Pp. 131, 258.
  • Anděla Horová: Nová encyklopedie českého výtvarného umění . Academia, Prague 1995, ISBN 80-200-0536-6 . OCLC 612250699.
  • Heribert Becker: From the Casemates of Sleep , Czechoslovakian Surrealists, Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1982, ISBN 3453850246 , ISBN 9783453850248

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petr Král : Le surréalisme en Tchécoslovaquie . Editions Gallimard , 1983, Paris, 1987.
  2. ↑ Geneviève BENAMOU: L'art aujourd'hui en Tchécoslovaquie . Impr. Libres, Paris 1979
  3. ^ René Passeron : Encyclopédie du surréalisme . Somogy, Paris, 1975, Paris, 1987, p. 238
  4. ^ Adam Biro , René Passeron : Dictionnaire général du surréalisme et ses environs . PUF , Paris 1987, p. 385
  5. ↑ Marie Gruger: Martin Stejskal . BLS, réédition Savelli, Paris 1978, p. 385
  6. ↑ Michael Richardson , The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism , Bloomsbury, 2019, Oxford p. 1664.
personal data
SURNAME Stejskal, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech painter, graphic artist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague