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Jiří Valenta (6 August 1936 – 11 July 1991) was a Czech painter, printmaker and photographer. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia he emigrated to Germany. From 1972 until his death he lived in Cologne.
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Jiří Valenta (6 August 1936 – 11 July 1991) was a Czech painter, printmaker and photographer. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia he emigrated to Germany. From 1972 until his death he lived in Cologne.
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Life From 1951 to 1953, he attended the Higher School of Arts and Crafts in Prague. In his second year he received an exemption as an exceptional talent and at the age of seventeen was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague without graduation. From 1953 to 1959, he studied with Miloslav Holý and Karel Souček. His classmates included František Mertl, Milan Ressel and Bedřich Dlouhý. During his studies, he became close to his progressively oriented classmates, who, through two unofficial studio exhibitions called Confrontation, brought the European Informel to the Czech environment in 1960 in a specific form. The group put together by Jan Koblasa included Aleš Veselý, Zbyšek Sion, Zdeněk Beran, Antonín Málek and Antonín Tomalík. The first Confrontation, to which Koblasa invited the printmaker Vladimír Boudník, took place on 16 March 1960 in Valenta's studio Na Palmovce; the second Confrontation, also with Boudník's participation, took place on 30 October in Aleš Veselý's studio in Prague, Žižkov. In 1963, he had his first solo exhibition of drawings at the Mánes Club, and in 1965 he exhibited his paintings and drawings in Brno. In the same year, he was selected along with five other young European artists…
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Work Valenta's school paintings are dominated by silvery still lifes and grey-green landscapes. The painter's private work expresses the defiance and existential scepticism common to a whole generation of artists studying at the Academy in the 1950s (Ghost of the Slain, 1959). Already during his studies he found a source of inspiration in the art brut of Jean Dubuffet, the material compositions of A. Tàpies or the Burri´s collages made of burlap (Sacchi), but the essence of his work is spiritual and grounded in theoretical considerations. Early in his career, he touched fleetingly on figuration in paintings that deliberately evoked raw primitive art or children's drawings (Girl with a Ball, 1959, Venus, 1959). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he turned to structural painting. The relief structure and colour of his paintings, reduced to natural light ochres, sands, creams and greenish tones, were directly inspired by the rocks in the Kokořín valley, where they had taken trips together as students (Collage VIII, 1961). To create a surface of relief, he mixed sand first into the paint and later into the Acronex synthetic resin. Pieces of textile pasted onto the canvas as rectangular and circular fields in the abstract Collage…
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Representation in collections Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora (GASK) Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem
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Museum of Art Olomouc Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou
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Art Gallery Karlovy Vary Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové
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Solo 1963 Jiří Valenta: Drawings 1959–1962, Club of Fine Artists, Mánes Prague 1965 Jiří Valenta: Paintings from 1959 to 1965, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno 1966 Jiří Valenta: Panel Paintings, Gallery of Youth, Mánes, Prague 1968 Jiří Valenta: Malerei-Graphik-Objekte, Neue Universitätsbibliothek, Kiel 1969 Jiří Valenta, Jan Koblasa, bbk Galerie, Hannover
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1969 Jiří Valenta, Galerie Matou, Hamburg 1969 Jiří Valenta, Jan Koblasa, Schloss Celle 1970 Jiří Valenta, Jan Koblasa, Städtische Kunstgalerie Bochum 1972 Jiří Valenta: Bilder, Zeichnungen, Graphik, Galerie Die Goldschmiede, Bochum 1995/1996 Jiří Valenta (1936 - 1991): Collective Works / Gesamtwerk, Wallenstein Riding School, Prague, House of Arts, Ostrava, Museum Bochum 1998 Jiří Valenta: Photographs / Fotografien, Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem 2002 Jiří Valenta: Works from 1967 - 1977, Ztichlá klika Gallery, Prague 2004 Jiří Valenta: Collages, Galerie Litera, Prague 2009 Jiří Valenta: Anthropometric Meditations, Galerie Brno 2015 Jiří Valenta: Malíř fotografem, Interactive Gallery Becherova vila, Karlovy Vary[16] 2016/2017 Jiří Valenta a mysterium uměleckého znovzrození: Informelní tendence v 50. a 60. letech 20. století / Jiří Valenta and the Mystery of Artistic Rebirth: Informel Tendencies in the 50's and 60's of the 20th Century, Museum Kampa - Jana a Medy Mládkových Foundation, Praha
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Collective exhibitions abroad (selection) 1962 IV. Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d´Art moderne, Paris 1965 IV. Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC), Paris 1965 Cinque jeunes peintres d'Europe de l'est, Galerie Lambert, Paris 1965 Małarstwo a rzeźba z Pragi, Kraków, Kraków 1967 Moderne Kunst aus Prag, Caroline-Mathilde-Räume im Celler Schloß, Celle, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel 1968 Künstlergruppe arche mit 10 Malern aus Prag, Kunstkreis Hameln, Fritz-Henßler-Haus, Dortmund 1969 Jan Koblasa, Jiří Valenta, Schloß Celle, Celle 1970 Konstgruppen Grupp, Galleri 54, Göteborg, Alingsås konsthall, Alingsås 1970 Guderna, Hovadík, Koblasa, Valenta, The Merton Gallery, Toronto 1974 Tschechische Künstler, Galerie Ursula Wendtorf + Franz Swetec, Düsseldorf 1980 Die Kunst Osteuropas im 20. Jahrhundert, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1985 Schmerzende Wunde, Galerie Rafay, Kronberg im Taunus (Hochtaunuskreis) 1987/1988 Berlin - Tendenz - abstrakt: Brenneisen, Fuchs-Heidelberg, Lehmann, Matsuo, Valenta, Kunsthaus, Nürnberg 1991 Czeska sztuka 2. połowy XX wieku ze zbiorów Galerii Sztuk Plastycznych w Ostrawie, Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiu, Bytom 1996 Eine Promenade der Romantiker, Stadtmuseum Göhre, Jena 1998 Jan Koblasa, Jiří Valenta, Botschaft der Tschechischen Republik, Bonn 2005 Argumenta z kolekcji Gerharda Jürgena Bluma-Kwiatkovskiego, Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
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Catalogues Jiří Valenta: Paintings from 1959 to 1965, 1965, Šmejkal František, cat. 16 p., House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno Jiří Valenta: Panel Paintings, 1966, Linhartová Věra, cat. 8 p., SČVU Praha Jiří Valenta (1936-1991). Jiří Valenta: Fotografie / Fotografien, 1998, Hlaváčková Miroslava, cat. 30 p., Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem Jiří Valenta: Works from 1967 - 1977, 2002, Primus Zdenek, cat. 4 p., Galerie Ztichlá klika, Prague Jiří Valenta : Freiräume; Malerei, Grafik, Fotografie, 2002, Alexander von Knorre, Birgit Poppe, Emschertal-Museum, Herne Jiří Valenta: Anthropometric Meditations, 2009, Koblasa Jan, Víchová Czakó Ilona, cat. 75 p., Galerie Brno
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Publications Jaroslav Šerých, Quatrième biennale de Paris, 207 p., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC), Paris 1965 Mahulena Nešlehová et al., Czech Informel (Pioneers of Abstraction 1957–1964), 1991, Prague City Gallery Mahulena Nešlehová, The Message of Another Expression : the Concept of "Informel" in Czech Art of the 1950s and the First Half of the 1960s, published by the Prague Art Gallery. BASE, ARTetFACT, Prague 1997, ISBN 80-902160-0-5 (ARTetFACT; bound), ISBN 80-902481-0-1 (BASE; bound) Věra Linhartová, The White World of Jiří Valenta, in. Articles and studies from 1962 to 2002, Torst Prague 2010, ISBN 978-80-7215-392-3 Mahulena Nešlehová, Geometric Meditations. Drawings and paintings by Jiří Valenta from 1971 to 1977, in. Zdeněk Primus, Hommage à Jiří Valenta, KANT - Karel Kerlický, Prague 2010, ISBN 978-80-7437-015-1