Are you interested in art? Do you want to learn something about contemporary art? The lecture series with the artists and curators themselves is the perfect opportunity to take a peek under the hood of the art world, talk directly with the artists about their own work and spend an evening in a pleasant environment. There is no limit to the creativity of asking questions, because it is thanks to the audience's attention that works of art live the life they deserve.
The lecture series on contemporary artists and curators will feature one of the exhibiting artists of the current exhibition Signal IV: Eighties, Stanislav Diviš.
Stanislav Diviš (born 1953) is a Czech painter and co-founder of the band Krásné nové stroje. He came to art through a fascination with the work of František Kupka and from 1982 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the field of restoration. Already during his studies he was involved in the organisation of art events, in 1983 and 1984 he organised Mikulášské besídky at the Academy of Fine Arts, which prefigured the illegal exhibitions Confrontation (1984-1987) organised together with Jiří David. These Confrontations were followed by the formation of the important artistic group Tvrdohlaví in 1987. Cooperation with Jiří David continued in 1996-1997, when he worked as his assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts, and from 2003 he headed the painting studio at the UMPRUM, where he worked for seven years. Since the mid-1980s, his work has straddled the boundary between abstraction and objecthood with the use of placeholders. He also often reinterprets his earlier works or other subjects. The paintings are part of extensive thematic cycles characterized by formal and expressive unity, and through their stimulation of imagination and interpretation they contribute significantly to the dialogue on Czech postmodernism.
Programme subject to change.
