Victor Sanovec

Victor Sanovec (born September 9, 1943 in Olomouc in today's Czech Republic ) is a German visual artist .

Life

Victor Sanovec was born in Olomouc in the Czech Republic in 1943. In 1968 he fled to Germany during the Prague Spring . There he began his studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 1969 , which he finished in 1974.

Sanovec is married and lives in Frankfurt am Main.

plant

Sanovec became known for large-format fabric works in the 1980s . They consist of strips of fabric reinforced with multiple layers of colors, which are folded and hung according to the geometric principle of the same surfaces. The works are painted on both sides, but not all sides are visible. He gives his work a three-dimensional quality through strong application of paint and folds . In both his fabric and paper works, Sanovec is primarily concerned with opposites and their connection. Working with color and space developed the artist's interest in the landscape and its design by people. From 1996 to 2001 Victor Sanovec staged the EU landscape project Rheingarten in Oberwesel together with Barbara Fuchs .

Exhibitions and individual works (selection)

• 1987: Reorganization of the free religious community Offenbach am Main
• 1989: Exhibition "Pictures for Neunkirchen", community center, Neunkirchen
• 1996–2001: "Rheingarten" project (together with Barbara Fuchs)
• 1999: Installation "Lorbeerwall", Old Synagogue, Boppard
• 2000: Exhibition and installation "Blue for Salucci", Stuttgart
• 2001: Exhibition "El Jardin del Rhin", NTPLC Salamanca
• 2002: Exhibition "Landscapes", Foundation 1822-Forum, Frankfurt am Main
• 2006: Sculpture "TIERRAGUAIRE", Salamanca / Huerta
• 2007: Exhibition "Detail", Landau
• 2008: Exhibition "Painting", Synagogue Oberwesel
• 2009: Exhibition "SKLENIK", Museum Umeni, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• 2010: GLUECK, screen printing (design for a sculpture in Oberwesel)
• 2011: Exhibition "Relief", Kunstraum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main (participation)
• 2012: Exhibition "1984/2012", Kunstraum Bernusstraße, Frankfurt am Main
• 2014: Exhibition "Traces", Heussenstamm Gallery, Frankfurt am Main
• 2016: Exhibition "Lifelines", Galerie d'Hamè, Mülheim an der Ruhr
• 2017: Sculpture "Glück", Oberwesel / Rhine

Prices

• 1979: 2nd prize in the competition for the design of the square in front of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main
• 1982: Annual Art Prize of the Frankfurt Association for Artists Aid
• 1986: Reinhold Kurth Prize (today: 1822 Art Prize ) from the Stadtsparkasse Frankfurt am Main

Publications by Victor Sanovec

• Color theme . Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, 1985.
• Works on paper . Published by the Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, 1990.
• Jewish cooking school . Verlag Gebrüder Kornmayer, Dreieich, 2011, ISBN 3-942051-24-9 .

literature

• Victor Sanovec (with an essay by Ferdinand J. Zehentreiter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ), Trademark Publishing, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9815860-6-0 .
• Christina Weiss: Victor Sanovec. Works on paper , 1990.
• Margarete Rose Heck: Autonomy and Form of Expression - Four case reconstructions by contemporary painters on a theory of artistic action . Inaugural dissertation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , 1995.
• Jörg Dettmar: Ecological and aesthetic aspects of succession on derelict industrial sites . In: Heike Strelow: Aesthetics of Ecology. Environmental Design by Art - Theory and Applications , Berlin, 2004.

Web links

• Victor Sanovec in the artist lexicon of the Kunstforum
• Art behind the scaffolding on frankfurt.de
• Victorat. Forum for art and culture.
• Rheingarten project
• Victor Sanovec on the art portal Pfalz
• [1]
• [2]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Project Rheingarten. Official website of Rheingarten , accessed on September 7, 2013.
2. ↑ picture and pictures. Article about V. Sanovec on the art portal Pfalz (February 2007) after an interview with the artist for SWR4 in August 2006.