mixed media, canvas, 90 × 90 cm, signed JIŘÍ on the reverse
DAVID, ON THE BORDER, 2010Jiří David, contemporary Czech multimedia artist, belongs to the artistic
generation that contributed to the formation of the Czech
postmodern painting. He took part in the legendary unofficial exhibitions of the
Confrontations (since 1984) and with his peers founded in 1987
group of the Hardheads in 1987. His work has undergone a transformation from expressive painting
towards postmodern work with the image, its expressive and content
components that were close to the Italian transavantgarde and German
Wild. In the years that followed, David devoted himself to painting and
photography, objects and installation. The unifying element of his
of his works is a performative approach and engagement in which the artist reveals
his own and social identity in a critical way. In
well-known photographic series Hidden Forms (1991-1995), he manipulated
photographic portraits of famous personalities or showed crying politicians
In the last ten years, David has again
more towards painting, working with a variety of processes and expressive
means, such as combining different layers of paint, spray
and stencils to form a multi-layered, often abstracted pictorial
space. The different stylistic focus of the paintings is related to the artist's intention
to explore the possibilities of the contemporary painting medium and its communication
in today's technical and digital world.
Jiří David graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1982-1987).
From 1995-2002 he worked as the head of the Visual Communication Studio
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and in 2004-2020 as head of the Intermedia Studio
Intermedia Communication at the UMPRUM in Prague. He is undoubtedly best known in the media
was his 17-metre neon heart for Václav Havel, placed
at Prague Castle in 2002. In 2015, he represented the installation
Apotheosis in the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Provenience: majitel získal z ateliéru autora.
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auction 65
65th auction of Fine Art, Antiques, Design and Glass
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