{"id":193,"date":"2013-04-26T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T12:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galeriafoksal.pl\/sys\/?p=193"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T14:34:41","slug":"czarne-szare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriafoksal.pl\/en\/czarne-szare\/","title":{"rendered":"White, Black, Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening: 26.04.2013, 6.00 pm
\n29.04.2013 – 7.06.2013
\nCurated by Martin Dost\u00e1l, Lech Stangret
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\nExhibition in cooperation with the Czech Center in Warsaw
\nand with support of the Zden\u0115k \u0160klen\u00e1\u0159 Gallery, Prague<\/p>\n

The Stanislav Kol\u00edbal exhibition is the first presentation of this distinguished artist's works to be given at the Foksal, even though the gallery\u2019s directors and curators initially sought to hold just such a show back in the 1970s. Sadly, attempts to exhibit Czech or Slovak artists or, indeed, those hailing from the other \u2018socialist\u2019 countries, met with trenchant opposition on the part of the then Ministry of Culture. Nevertheless, with Ryszard Stanis\u0142awski, the director of the Museum of Art in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, working in close collaboration with the Foksal, Polish-Czech contacts were lively enough to afford those artists the opportunity of becoming familiar with the Warsaw gallery. It should be pointed out that, in the case of the museum in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, this initiative bore fruit in the founding of a collection of avant-garde Czech and Slovak works which were banned in Czechoslovakia after 1968. This current exhibition thus colours in that blank spot in the Foksal\u2019s history, though it is not, of course, an historical show. Entitled White, Black, Grey<\/em> , it is consists of more than twenty works specially selected by the artist and displayed in a spatial composition which is also of his making. The works are mainly drawn from his most recent period, but allusions to the 1970s can also found amongst them.<\/p>\n

Stanislav Kol\u00edbal numbers amongst the world\u2019s leading representatives of Cold Abstraction, using the language of geometry in his artistic creations. Critics have read references to Conceptualism, Minimal Art and Arte Povera in his works. Their processual nature precludes their being pigeonholed as a category of sculpture. After all, in the course of the last half-century, that genre of art has gone through a fundamental transformation, to which Kol\u00edbal has made his own, major contribution. As far back as the 1960s, he arrived at the concepts of object and installation through the individual evolution of his art. In the 1970s, when it was impossible for him to arrange public showings, he created extraordinary installations in the privacy of his own studio.\n\nThe visual aspect of the spatial composition within which the sculptural works were presented in the exhibitions he set up have become a quality much esteemed by critics. As Urszula Czartoryska wrote in 2000:<\/p>\n

For this remarkable artist, rational thinking about space revitalises the universal sense of the human being\u2019s movement in the surrounding universum, the sojourn of human thought in an astounding, perpetually renewed labyrinth. Here, the labyrinth means the spiritual journey through the world. These values remain relevant no matter when or where, along the Vltava as well.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stanislav Kol\u00edbal\u2019s art is well known to the Polish public. He has shown his works at several solo and collective exhibitions held at the Museum of Art in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw, amongst others. He also took part in the prominent international\u00a0Construction in Process 1981<\/em>exhibition which opened in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a not two months before the declaration of martial law and became a manifestation of international artists\u2019 solidarity with Polish society.<\/p>\n

Born in Orlov\u00e1 on 11th December 1925, Stanislav Kol\u00edbal is one of the most important figures on the modern Czech art scene. In the 1950s and, in particular, the 1960s, when more or less every avant-garde trend in world art made an appearance there on the wave of the relative political thaw of the times, he already numbered amongst its most potent personalities. Alongside V\u00e1clav Bo\u0161t\u00edk and Adriena \u0160imotova, amongst others, he was a high-profile artist in the legendary UB 12 Group. Founded in 1960, the group\u2019s activities were banned by the communist authorities in 1970 and Kol\u00edbal was not to return to official artistic life until the Velvet Revolution.\n\nFrom 1990 to 1993, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 2012, his works were presented at a grand retrospective exhibition entitled Another World<\/em> , held at Prague Castle in the city\u2019s Hrad\u010dany district.<\/p>\n

He has participated in such renowned events as the 5th Sculpture from Twenty Nations<\/em> exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Paris-Prague<\/em> exhibition at the Mus\u00e9e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Europa Europa<\/em> exhibition in Bonn and Painting and Sculpture Today<\/em> at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, to name but a few.<\/p>\n

His works are held in a number of collections, including the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Gallery in London and, in Poland, the Museum of Art in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw.<\/p>\n

Our special thanks are owed both to the artist himself and to Mr Petr Jany\u0161ka, the director of the Czech Centre in Warsaw<\/em><\/p>\n

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