Rudolf Valenta (sculptor)

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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)

Valenta's steel construction "Raumlinie" is part of the human landscape in Berlin
Great Herula HR main entrance Frankfurt (2000)

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. "

- Arsén Pohribný

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ve věku 85 let zemřel sochař a graphic Rudolf Valenta
  2. ^ Entry on Valenta, Rudolf in the DAAD's Berlin artist program.
  3. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hr-online.de
  4. ↑ http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/programm/event-details/hommage-rudolf-valenta/
  5. ↑ https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ars%C3%A9n_Pohribn%C3%BD
personal data
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