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Petr Kvíčala |
Petr Kvíčala’s oeuvre can be best described as consistent and constantly innovated work with ornament whose hand-shaped geometry is based on the initially post-modern concepts. For Kvíčala, ornament thus represents “a point of departure resulting in autonomous visual composition”. He, however, processes ornament in a conceptual way, creating extensive series according to pre-defined principles and developing on simple geometric lines that are either monochrome or hold onto several basic colors. Kvíčala’s ornament has its given rules, but it is not computer-calculated. Its only limitation is the dimensions of the canvas. A clear aesthetic plan subsequently extracts the ornament from its infinite pattern, and the result can be thus simply accepted as easel painting – non-symbolical, just a beautiful one. It is quite evident why art historians agree in almost all points when theorizing about Kvíčala’s work: his concept is straightforward but at the same time ceaselessly self-revitalizing. Kvíčala’s approach (let’s note that his ornament originally departed from natural motifs observed in reality) can be aptly described by only a couple of words – for example, reduction, randomness and immortality; subjective and lyrical articulation of geometry; expression of the process and time; repetition as one of the elementary principles of modern art. Kvíčala’s painting has also been successfully applied in architecture many times. And it is in architecture where his ornament as if took on more meanings, being strongly erotic in red, and intellectually irritating in white and silver…
Artworks of this author offered by Prague Art & Design
Petr Kvíčala
* 1960, Svitavy
Solo Exhibitions
1988 | Petr Kvíčala
1989 | Two Possibilities of Geometrical Art
1991 | Petr Kvicala
1991 | Petr Kvicala
1991 | Petr Kvicala
1992 | Petr Kvicala
1992 | Petr Kvicala
1992 | Petr Kvicala
1993 | Tablecloths
1993 | Petr Kvicala
1993 | Petr Kvicala
1994 | Edges
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1995 | Image cuts
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1995 | Tableau, wall painting, carpet
1995 | Petr Kvicala
1996 | Petr Kvicala
1996 | Petr Kvicala
1997 | Petr Kvicala
1997 | 60 days of red, blue and yellow
1997 | Petr Kvicala
1997 | Petr Kvicala
1997 | Small sizes
1998 | 60 days of red, blue and yellow
1998 | Petr Kvicala
1998 |
1999 | YUPPÍ
1999 | Petr Kvicala
1999 | Petr Kvicala
1999 | Petr Kvicala
1999 | Petr Kvicala
2000 | Petr Kvicala
2000 | Redecorated
2000 | No. 19
2001 | Line, colour, rhytm
2001 | Ornament
2001 | Drum trek
2001 | Monumental, farbintensiv, abstrakt - Petr Kvíčala
2002 | Space for one piece
2002 | Memory
2003 | Get inside
2004 | www.petr-kvicala.com
2005 | For your eyes only
2005 | Petr Kvicala
2011 | PETR KVÍČALA: Sight-Specific
Group Exhibitions
1986
Trienale 14/35
Contact
Young Artists of Brno
Creative Banquets
1987
Painting of Brno
Contacts
Young Artists of Brno
1988
Rockfest
Moravian Graphic
5. Biennale of Young Artists of South-Moravian Region
1989
Exhibition of Young Artists of Brno
Opened DialoGUE
Czech Painting and Sculpture of 80\'ies
Circle of Brno
Huit Tcheques
Inoffiziell Kunst der ČSFR
From Young Artists Creation
New Ways of Drawing and Graphic
Contemporary Czech Drawing
Books - Objects
1990
Nahroubeno
Young artist of Brno
From Contemporary Drawing
HammerschlaG 91
Tscheslovakai Kunst
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-untitled-
1991
Jindrich Chalupecky Prize
Type on Tableau
First Grainery, Room no. 1
Possibilities of Petite Sculpture
Minisalon
1992
Grey Brick III
Trienale of Chalupecky Prize
Solstices - Hermit 93
Landscape in Contemporary Czech Art
Endless stories
Record of Large-scale Factors...(Czech painting of 2nd half of 20th Century in collection of state galleries)
1993
End of Season
S.O.F.A. Art event
Gains
1994
Order and Rhytm of Landscape in Czech Art of 60. - 90ies
Real Paintings
Nineties
Type in Art
1995
Silence for Twelve Voices
FINE ART
I. New Salon of Zlin
I. New Salon of Zlin
Painting with Pastelina
Tapisery - Tableau - Space
Silence for Twelve Voices
1996
Additions
Inherencing
traVERSing
1997
60 days of red, blue and yellow
White
New Tapisery
1998
Brno - Wien - Prague
Shariah International Art Biennial
CAKE
II. New Salon of Zlin
For Animals
Tetraeder
FaVU
1999
Grainery 2000
Tapestries and Rugs
Two Ends of Century
Contemporary Past (Czech Postmodern Modernity 1960 - 2000)
Hundred
Shine of Naissance
Arte contemporanea ceca dalla collezione della Galleria Klatovy - Klenová
Nice Exposition
2000
...about people...
Club of Concretists 2
Biennale Internazzionale Dell´ Arte Contemporanea
2001
Monochromy
Individualities of Czech Contemporary Art
New End of Painting
Johanes von Nepomuk
Typical Tableau
COLOR MAKERS
Contemporary aquarelle
...occursus..., Modern Art from Ceska pojistovna collections
2002
Place for tapisery
Contemporary aquarelle
Circle of Brno (Armutidis, Kokolia, Kvíčala, Krůček, Rudolf, Valoch)
Ornament in Contemporary art
Laureáti Chalupeckého ceny
Johannes von Nepomuk - der heiliGe mitteleuropas
Giovanni Nepomuceno il santo della mitteleuropa
Czech Painting Today
Artist of zhe Gallery circle
2003
COLOUR MAKERS
Josep Lluís Mateo - OrGanic versus inorGanic
Johannes von Nepomuk - der heiliGe mitteleuropas
Jan Nepomucky - The Saint of Midlle Europe
Ecce Light
2004
Folklores in Czech Art of XX. Century
2005
Johannes Nepomucenae
Honour to Kupka
Art and Nature (Adalbert Štifters Šumava)
Private sight (J. Chloupek collection)
2006
Jan Nepomucen - swiety Europy srodkowej
