Rudolf Valenta (sculptor)
Rudolf Valenta (born September 27, 1929 in Prague ; † April 26, 2015 in Berlin ) was a Czech sculptor , painter and graphic artist who lived in Berlin. In 1967 he was a founding member of the group “ Club of Concretists ” and co-organizer of the 1st symposium “Spatial Forms” in Ostrava , ČSSR . He was also a co-founder of the Systema group .
Life
In 1970 Valenta emigrated from Czechoslovakia to London and came to West Berlin in 1974 with a DAAD scholarship .
Exhibitions (selection)
Since 1962 exhibitions and international participations in the ČSSR, Hungary, Sweden, Poland, England, Ireland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Austria, Denmark and Slovakia.
- 1971 “Space exhibition” in Belfast, Dublin
- 1972 "Art in steel" in London
- 1975–76 project and realization of the labyrinth, audiovisual environment with Peter Sedgley in Berlin and Bonn
- 1977 “Gruppe Systema” in the Arnos Anderson Museum in Helsinki
- 1978 “ Deutscher Künstlerbund ” in the National Gallery in Berlin
- 1982 Gallery Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
- 2000 “Art in Hessischer Rundfunk”, Frankfurt am Main and “City and Sculpture”, Schwerin, Lehnin
- 2001 “Berlin Steel Sculptures”, Wiligrad Castle near Schwerin, “Object / Object, Metamorphoses in Time”, Czech Museum Prague
- 2002 “Forum Concrete Art”, Peterskirch, Erfurt
- 2003 “dialogue in surface and space - concrete art from Europe”, Kunstverein Wiligrad near Schwerin, “Paths to Abstraction II, Form and Structure”, Kunstverein Plön
- 2005 “vertical in surface and space - concrete art from europe”, Kunstverein Wiligrad near Schwerin
- 2008 “line, color, surface” house at Kleistpark, Berlin
- 2009 Four Czech artists in the Foreign Office, Berlin
- 2011 Das Oval, group exhibition at Galerie Jesse, Bielefeld
- 2012 Rudolf Valenta retrospective, Galerie Zavodny, Mikulov, CZ
- 2013 Dialogue on Borders - Works from the Riese Collection - Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg; 30 years of concrete art, group exhibition Vasarely Museum, Budapest
- 2014 Reconstruction - Czech Center, Berlin
“In Valenta's exhibition the threshold of utopia is crossed. We take a look at some models and plan examples from a workshop for the absolute. The technological imperative is at home here, but there is enough space in Valenta's design for a special form of imagination which is able to poetically play out opposites and paradoxes. "
literature
- Rudolf Valenta: Works 1964–1980 , DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program , Berlin, 1981. (exhibition catalog)
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Valenta in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Valenta's homepage
- Hessian radio
- HPD: Rudolf Valenta - artist and humanist
Individual evidence
- ^ Ve věku 85 let zemřel sochař a graphic Rudolf Valenta
- ^ Entry on Valenta, Rudolf in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/programm/event-details/hommage-rudolf-valenta/
- ↑ https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A9n_Pohribn%C3%BD
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Valenta, Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech sculptor, painter and printmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2015 |
Place of death | Berlin |