Radoslav Kratina

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Radoslav Kratina (2 December 1928 – 10 September 1999) was a Czech graphic and industrial designer, photographer, painter, curator and sculptor. His work, based on rational thinking and a materialistic conception of the world, is rarely unified and focused. Kratina's works, for which he found stimuli in the real world, are among the most authentic manifestations of Czech neoconstructivism of the 1960s and combine contemporary constructive and kinetic tendencies with an existential dimension. With his original and pioneering work he established himself on the international scene during the 1960s. After the Soviet occupation in 1968 and during the following normalization, he lost the opportunity to exhibit and his works, created in isolation, were only discovered after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. The variability of his artefacts is consistent with the concept of open work as formulated by Umberto Eco in the 1960s. This space of postmodern freedom no longer has binding directions of development, and Kratina's variabils, in their conception, which Arsén Pohribný classifies as a stream of "irrational geometry", go beyond the common understanding of the artwork.

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Life Radoslav Kratina was born on 2 December 1928 in Brno. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Brno from 1943 to 1948 and after graduation worked as a textile designer. From 1952 he continued his studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, first in the studio of graphic designer and painter Josef Novák (1952–1953), and later with Prof. Alois Fišárek (1953–1957). In 1955 he married fashion designer Helena Křížová. As his final work, he submitted a set of blueprint patterns for the dividing panels in the interior of a restaurant at the Expo 58 in Brussels From 1957 to 1962 he worked as an industrial designer of textiles and toys (exhibition at ÚLUV in Prague, 1961). After moving to a new apartment in 1962, he began to work as freelancer. His wife Helena, who worked as a designer at Oděvní tvorba (Clothing Design), was a reliable source of support for him, as she was allowed to travel abroad and partly supported him financially. In the 1960s he participated in several collective exhibitions together with artists who dealt with structural abstraction, lettrism and constructivism. In 1964 he assembled his first variable object from…Citește mai mult

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Artistic foundations The manifestations of constructivism and geometric abstraction in Czech art of the 1960s, which Jiří Padrta summarized under the comprehensive designation "New Sensibility", were a reaction to the existential work of artists engaged in structural abstraction (Informel) and New Figuration. The artists drew on the constructivism of the interwar Czechoslovak and European avant-garde (Union of Modern Culture Devětsil, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Abstraction-Création), but they were also familiar with contemporary tendencies, represented by Swiss Constructivism, Kineticism or the Zero group. The new aesthetic was represented by the French movement Les nouveaux réalistes, the GRAV (Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel) and Julio Le Parc, the Swiss Richard Paul Lohse, or Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker of the Zero group. Kratina did not have any direct foreign predecessors, but he appreciated the work of the Israeli artist Yaacov Agam and the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto. The group of concretists initially formed within the circle of the art groups Křižovatka (Crossroads) - since 1963 and Syntéza (Synthesis) since 1966 and in 1967 founded its own Club of Concretists. The initiator was Radek Kratina together with Tomáš Rajlich, Jiří Hilmar, Miroslav Vystrčil and art theorist Arsén Pohribný. Exhibitions under the title…Citește mai mult

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Applied art After graduating from the School of Arts and Crafts in Brno, Radek Kratina devoted himself to textile design in 1949–1952. Here he applied his innate sense of order and harmony in the design of decorative cloth and indigo prints based on the principle of regular geometric patterns. He also designed collections of wooden toys and building blocks. He also worked as a textile designer during his subsequent studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (1952–1957). His graduation work was a textile panneau for a restaurant at the Expo 58 in Brussels, on which he used rubber stamps to create figurative motifs composed of several geometric elements. Kratina's toy designs were inspired by the figures that children assemble from chestnuts and offered a variable combination of individual turned parts. Another series of toys made of flat stylized shapes offered similar transformations.

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1960s The impulse for his own free creation and abandonment of applied art became the exhibition of his generational friends Rychnov ´63, especially the creators of informel, which attracted him by its unconventional approaches and directness of expression. He was also interested in the graphic experiments of Vladimír Boudník. The exhibition in Rychnov represented a radical and irreversible step for Kratina's move towards the formulation of an uncompromising creative gesture and at the same time a choice of a clear artistic orientation, determined by his need to seize things and to fulfill a sense of concreteness. Between 1963 and 1965 Kratina devoted himself to oil painting, relief paintings, monotypes, frottage, assemblages, collage and sculptural compositions made of plaster. He used a variety of scrap materials found around his home to make his printmaking matrices and printed the artworks using two rubber cylinders from a hand wringer. He achieved interesting results with objects that could not be rolled with paint directly, but by frottage through the attached flimsy. He experimented with paraffin, loose materials or plaster cast on newsprint. For the creation of lettrist monotypes he reprinted fragments of texts from foreign newspapers and magazines with his own original method, taking…Citește mai mult

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Highlights The precise shape of the machined metal parts allowed for more complex spatial and shape solutions. Initially, he bought prefabricated profiles from a metallurgical material shop, but over time he found craftsmen who were able to produce and assemble the sculptures according to his drawings. Kratina suppressed the subjectivity of his distinctive style and arrived at a rational artistic expression that conformed to the detached universal forms of geometry. For his first metal variabils he used hollow aluminium cylinders (Metal Object I, 1970), but was dissatisfied with the optical qualities of the material and opted for chrome or nickel-plated iron and brass or aluminium and lightweight dural for his subsequent works. At first, the basis of the variations consisted of simple geometric elements, such as parts of spheres, cylinders and cubes, with surfaces treated by polishing, matting or blackening. He assembled them in a way that allowed independent movement of each element or of the whole axes on which they were fixed. He did not design the objects as mathematical-geometric problems, but was inspired by real objects, such as a wooden folding ruler, a tank train, an archery target, the grid of a metal mat, etc. Kratina's works were…Citește mai mult

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Solo (selection) 1966 Objects and Variabils by Radek Kratina, Theatre of Music, Ústí nad Labem 1967 Radek Kratina: Objects and Variabils 1963 - 1966, Regional Gallery of Highlands in Jihlava 1967 Radek Kratina: Objects, Variabils, Monotypes, Jaroslav Kral Gallery, Brno 1967 Radoslav Kratina, Galerie bratří Čapků, Prague 1967 Radek Kratina: Variabils, Benedikt Rejt Gallery, Louny 1969 Radek Kratina, Jiří Valenta, Tvář Gallery, Havířov, Workers' Club, Milevsko 1970 Demartini, Kratina, Alšova síň UB, Prague 1978 Radek Kratina: Objects, Variabils, Monotypes, Sonnenring Galerie, Rotemburg 1988 Zdeněk Sýkora: Paintings, Radek Kratina: Objects, with text by R. Kratina: Real Movement as a Possibility, Atrium, Prague 1989 Radek Kratina: Variabils and Objects, Kabinet of Applied Art, Brno 1990 Králík, Kratina, District Museum of Bohemian Paradise 1990 Zippe, Kratina, Art Gallery, Žďár nad Sázavou 1990 Zdeněk Prokop, 10 objects by R. Kratina, Jičín 1991 Zippe, Kratina, Galerie U bílého jednorožce, Klatovy, Czech Cultural Centre Bratislava, Tatra Gallery, Poprad 1991 Chatrný, Kratina, Karlovy Vary Art Gallery 1991 Radek Kratina: Transformation, Benedikt Rejt Gallery, Louny 1991 Radek Kratina: Variabils, Z-Galerie Operngasse, Vienna 1992 Cultural Centre of the Czechoslovakia, Berlin (with V. Hulík)

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1993 Kratina, Pešek, Galerie Zámeček, Příbram 1994 Radek Kratina: Experimental Prints and Frottage from the 1960s, Letohrádek Ostrov 1995/96 Radoslav Kratina: Reliefs and Variable Objects, Exhibition Hall Sokolská 26, Ostrava 1996 Radoslav Kratina: Variable Objects, Langův dům Gallery, Frýdek-Místek 1998 Radoslav Kratina: Movement as Possibility, House of Art, Ostrava 2000 Radek Kratina: Idea con variazioni, Exhibition Hall Husova 19–21, Prague 2000 Radek Kratina (1928 - 1999): Selections from his life's work, Regional Gallery in Liberec 2004 Radek Kratina: Variabils and Monotypes, Galerie Montanelli, Prague 2005 Radek Kratina, Komart Gallery, Bratislava, Galerie am Festungsgraben, Berlin 2011 Radek Kratina, Dalibor Chatrný, Galerie Závodný, Mikulov 2012 Kratina in Dynamo, Dynamo design, Prague 2013 Radek Kratina (1928-1999), Dům U Kamenného zvonu, Prague 2017 Radek Kratina: Konstanty a proměnné / Constants and Variables, Museum Kampa, Praha

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1958 Expo 58, Brussels 1964, 1966 Jazz in Fine Arts, Theatre of Music, Prague 1967 Mostra d´arte contemporanea cecoslovacca, Castello del Valentino, Turin

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1967 Klub der Konkretisten, Alpbach 1967 Premi Inernacional Dibuix Joan Miró, Barcelona 1968 5 Künstler aus Prag, Paderborn, Medebach 1968/69 Club der Konkretisten Prag, Galerie im Hause Behr, Stuttgart, Galerie Mahlerstrasse, Vienna 1968 II. Międzynarodowe Biennale Plakatu, Warsaw 1968 1969 Klub konkrétistů, Galerie Pluymen, Nijmegen, Bratislava 1969 Club van Konkretisten Praag, Tiffany's Gallery, Den Haag 1969 5 Künstler aus Prag, Kassel, Paderborn 1969 22 grafici della Cecoslovacchia, Libreria Feltrinelli, Firenze 1969 Klub konkretistu Cekoslovacchia, Galleria Fiamma Vigo, Rome, Turin 1969 Klub der Konkretisten, Galerie Mahlerstrasse, Wien, Tiffany's Gallery, Scheweningen 1969 Salon d´Asnieres Peintres et Sculptures d´Aujourd´hui Quatre Artistes Tchécoclovaques, Asnieres sur Seina

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1969 Tendence 4, Zagreb 1970 Club van Konkretisten Praag, Heineken Galerij, Amsterdam, Galerie de Bazuin, Harlingen

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1970 Expo 70, Osaka 1971 Klub der Konkretisten: Objekte und Graphik, Galerie Interior, Frankfurt 1971 Konstruktive Kunst aus der CSSR, Galerie Sabine Vitus, Nuremberg 1972 35 artisti cecoslovacchi contemporanei Grafica e oggetti, Unimedia Galeria d´arte contemporanea, Genoa 1974 Tschechische Künstler, Galerie Wendtorf-Swetec, Düsseldorf 1980 Die Kunst Osteuropas im 20. Jahrhundert, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1984 Zeitgenössische Kunst der ČSSR, Galerie Dialog e. V., Berlín 1985 Konstruktive Tendenzen II, Galerie Dialog e. V., Berlín 1987 Klub der Konkretisten 1967 - 1987, Objekte und Grafiken, Galerie Rafay, Kronberg 1990 Neue Blätter aus der ČSSR, Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden 1991 Hýbače, Východoslovenská galéria, Košice, Galéria Gerulata, Bratislava, NTM Prague 1992 Nová geometrie / New Geometry, National Technical Museum (Prague) 1992 Arte contemporanea ceca e slovacca 1950 - 1992, Palazzo del Broletto, Novara 1992/2003 Minisalon, Galerie Nová síň, Praha, Mons, New York, Hollywood, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Rapids, Albuquerque, Forth Myers, Columbia, North Dartmouth, Saint Petersburg, Prague, Brussels, Jakarta, Ubud, Surabaya, Paris 1992 Radoslav Kratina, Viktor Hulík: Variabils, Bewegnung in Objekten und Collagen, Galerie 2 G - Gegenwart, Berlin 1992 Situation Pragoise, Galerie Le Manoir, Ville de Martigny 1993 Geometria Bohemia: Tschechische Geometrie / Cseh Geometrikus Müvészet, Műcsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest 1993 Inter - Kontakt - Grafik - Praha ’93, Mánes,…Citește mai mult

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2000 Schenkungen, Museum Bochum 2001 Serigrafia dall´Europa centrale / Siebdruck aus Miiteleuropa, Palais Esplanade, Merano 2003/4 Ejhle světlo / Look Light, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Prague castle riding hall, Prague 2005 Emigration out/in 1: Běla Kolářová, Jiří Kolář, Radek Kratina, Hugo Demartini, Saarländische Galerie – Europäisches Kunstforum e.V., Berlin

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2006 Weltanschauung, Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo 2008 International triennale of contemporary art 2008, National Gallery Prague 2010 New Sensitivity, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

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Monographs Hana Larvová (ed.), Radek Kratina (1928 -1999), Gallery, Praha 2013, ISBN 978-80-86990-23-1

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Author´s catalogues (selection) Kratina v Dynamu, text Zbyněk Sedláček, Dynamo Design, Prague 2012 Radek Kratina: Variabily a monotypy, text Jiří Machalický, Museum Montanelli, Prague 2004 Radek Kratina 1928 - 1999: Idea con variazioni, Hlaváček J a kol., cat. 76 p., Prague, 2000 Radoslav Kratina: Transformovatelné objekty, cat. 20 p., Kaliba, Prague, 1998 Radoslav Kratina: Experimentální grafika 60. let a transformovatelné objekty, cat. 20 p., Kaliba, Prague, 1995 Radek Kratina: Experimentální otisky a frotáže z 60. let, text Zbyněk Sedláček, Galerie umění Karlovy Vary (letohrádek Ostrov), 1994 Radek Kratina, cat. 16 p., Galerie Benedikta Rejta, Louny, 1991 Radoslav Kratina, cat. 12 s., Správa kulturních zařízení MK SR, Bratislava, 1991 Radoslav Kratina: Objekty, cat. 12 p., Muzeum Českého ráje, Turnov 1990 Radek Kratina: Variabily, Holešovský K, cat. 48 p., angl. č. fr. rus., Moravská galerie Brno 1989 Radek Kratina: Objekty, Kratina R, Valoch J, cat. 52 p., č. něm., Atrium, Prague 1988 Kratina, text Kříž J, cat. 28 p., Sonnenring Galerie, Rotemburg, 1978 Radek Kratina: Objekty a variabily 1963–1966, Pohribný A, kat. 28 p., cs. de., OGV v Jihlavě, 1967 Kratina, text Kratina R, Pohribný A, Dům umění města Brna 1967 Kratina, Pohribný A, cat. 16 p., cs. de. fr., GJK, Brno,…Citește mai mult