Stanislav Kolíbal: Surface – Line – Space
The new exhibition at the Birthplace of Josef Hoffmann will present the works of two previously unconnected artists in one space: Josef Hoffmann and Stanislav Kolíbal. Following previous foreign artists (Adolf Loos, Carlo Scarpa, Donald Judd, Dorit Margreiter, Oswald Oberhuber), the birthplace of the Vienna architect and designer will for the first time become a place for the confrontation of the work of Josef Hoffmann with that of the Czech artist.
The Prague sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal (born 1925) is among the most significant representatives of Czech art after World War II. Since the 1960s, he has been intensively addressing problems related to geometry as one of the foundations of European cultural and civilizational identity. The tension between abstract form and the existential meaning of artistic creation, questions of durability, stability, and lability of sculptural forms, led to the inclusion of his works in the significant exhibition Between Man and Matter at the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo in 1970 (alongside Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and others). To emphasize the contrast with his earlier sculptures and objects, he refers to his works created in 1988/89 in Berlin, which are based on drawings and floor plans, as "buildings". These were pencil drawings, some of which later resulted in three-dimensional constructions. In 1997, the National Gallery in Prague organized a major retrospective for him. In the last twenty years, Kolíbal has held solo exhibitions in Great Britain (College of Art in Edinburgh, 1998), Italy (Chiese Rupestri in Matera, 1999), and Germany (Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, 2000). The current exhibition focuses on the area of "line - surface - space" and highlights the individual differences in the concept of spatiality and the function of geometric principles in the works of Josef Hoffmann and Stanislav Kolíbal.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with MAK Vienna.
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The Prague sculptor Stanislav Kolíbal (born 1925) is among the most significant representatives of Czech art after World War II. Since the 1960s, he has been intensively addressing problems related to geometry as one of the foundations of European cultural and civilizational identity. The tension between abstract form and the existential meaning of artistic creation, questions of durability, stability, and lability of sculptural forms, led to the inclusion of his works in the significant exhibition Between Man and Matter at the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo in 1970 (alongside Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and others). To emphasize the contrast with his earlier sculptures and objects, he refers to his works created in 1988/89 in Berlin, which are based on drawings and floor plans, as "buildings". These were pencil drawings, some of which later resulted in three-dimensional constructions. In 1997, the National Gallery in Prague organized a major retrospective for him. In the last twenty years, Kolíbal has held solo exhibitions in Great Britain (College of Art in Edinburgh, 1998), Italy (Chiese Rupestri in Matera, 1999), and Germany (Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, 2000). The current exhibition focuses on the area of "line - surface - space" and highlights the individual differences in the concept of spatiality and the function of geometric principles in the works of Josef Hoffmann and Stanislav Kolíbal.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with MAK Vienna.
More information >
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