{"id":121729,"date":"2024-07-10T23:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:devel.artlist.cz\/artist\/kafka-3\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:14:01","slug":"cestmir-kafka","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/cestmir-kafka\/","title":{"rendered":"Kafka"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-121729","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","keyword-asamblaz","keyword-assemblage","keyword-grafika","keyword-malba","keyword-objekt"],"acf":{"nicknames":"","date_born":1922,"date_death":1988,"place_born":"Jihlava","lives":"Praha","web":"","idatum":"","address":"","email":"","phone":"","biography":"Studies:\r\n1945-1949 Academy of Applied Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague,\r\npainting studio of Emil Filla\r\n1940-1945 School of Arts, Zl\u00edn, Vladim\u00edr Hroch\r\n1942-1943 forced labor in Styria","groups":[121166],"membership":"","exhibitions_solo":"2008\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Krajiny mo\u017en\u00e9ho kon\u00e1n\u00ed, Topi\u010d\u016fv salon (2007-), Praha\r\n\r\n2005\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Obrazy, monotypy, pr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e, Ro\u017embersk\u00fd d\u016fm, Sob\u011bslav\r\n\r\n2002\r\n\u010cestmir Kafka, Galerie Benedikta Rejta, Louny\r\n\r\n1994\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Obrazy, kresby, kol\u00e1\u017ee, asambl\u00e1\u017ee 1943 - 1988, Vald\u0161tejnsk\u00e1 j\u00edzd\u00e1rna, Praha\r\n\r\n1989\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Troj\u00ed posledn\u00ed sm\u011b\u0159ov\u00e1n\u00ed, Galerie Nov\u00e1 s\u00ed\u0148, Praha\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Kresby, obrazy, Galerie Benedikta Rejta, Louny\r\n\r\n1988\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Kresby a obrazy z let 1942 - 1947, Artot\u00e9ka, Obvodn\u00ed knihovna v Praze 4, Praha\r\n\r\n1987\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed a archetypy, Sovinec, Sovinec\r\n\r\n1986\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: B\u00edl\u00e9 obrazy, Mal\u00e1 galerie Stavoprojektu, Brno\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed, asambl\u00e1\u017ee, hmoty 1982 - 1985, Galerie Opatov, Praha\r\n\r\n1984\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed a asambl\u00e1\u017ee, V\u00fdstavn\u00ed s\u00ed\u0148 Na p\u016fd\u011b, \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed a asambl\u00e1\u017ee, T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00e9 divadlo, foyer, \u010cesk\u00fd T\u011b\u0161\u00edn\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed, Galerie 55, Kladno\r\n\r\n1982\r\n\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Obrazy z posledn\u00edch let, \u00dastav makromolekul\u00e1rn\u00ed chemie (\u00daMCH), v\u00fdstavn\u00ed s\u00ed\u0148, Praha\r\n\r\n1976\r\n\u010cestmir Kafka, Galerie Hildebrand, Klagenfurt\r\n\r\n1963\r\n\u010cestmir Kafka, Galerie na Karlov\u011b n\u00e1m\u011bst\u00ed, Praha","exhibitions_group":"2013&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prague Biennale 6: Flow,&nbsp;N\u00e1kladov\u00e9 n\u00e1dra\u017e\u00ed \u017di\u017ekov, Praha 3\r\n2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Roky ve dnech. \u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed 1945-1957,&nbsp;M\u011bstsk\u00e1 knihovna, 2. patro, Praha\r\n2010&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Realita je v\u00edc ne\u017e fikce: Asambl\u00e1\u017e jako tv\u016fr\u010d\u00ed princip v \u010desk\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 60. a 70. let,D\u016fm p\u00e1n\u016f z Kun\u0161t\u00e1tu, 1. patro, Brno\r\n2008&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Na zkou\u0161ku v r\u00e1ji? Um\u011bn\u00ed \u0161edes\u00e1t\u00fdch let ze sb\u00edrek Z\u00e1pado\u010desk\u00e9 galerie v Plzni,V\u00fdstavn\u00ed s\u00ed\u0148 \u201e13\u201c, Plze\u0148\r\n2005&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prostor a \u010das,&nbsp;Galerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed v Roudnici nad Labem, Roudnice nad Labem\r\n2004&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u0160edes\u00e1t\u00e1 \/ The sixties ze sb\u00edrky Galerie Zlat\u00e1 husa v Praze,&nbsp;D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed m\u011bsta Brna, Brno\r\n2003&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e ze sb\u00edrky Jana a Medy Ml\u00e1dkov\u00fdch,&nbsp;D\u016fm U Kamenn\u00e9ho zvonu, Praha\r\n2001&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Objekt - objekt: Metamorf\u00f3zy v \u010dase \/ Object - object: Metamorphoses in time,&nbsp;D\u016fm U \u010cern\u00e9 Matky Bo\u017e\u00ed, Praha\r\n2001&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ji\u0159\u00ed Kol\u00e1\u0159 sb\u011bratel \/ Ji\u0159\u00ed Kol\u00e1\u0159 the Collector,&nbsp;Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c, Praha\r\n1997&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u010cesk\u00e9 imaginativn\u00ed um\u011bn\u00ed,&nbsp;Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha 1\r\n1997&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prom\u011bny krajiny v \u010desk\u00e9m mal\u00ed\u0159stv\u00ed 20. stolet\u00ed,&nbsp;Veletr\u017en\u00ed pal\u00e1c, Praha\r\n1996&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; V prostoru 20. stolet\u00ed. \u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed ze sb\u00edrky Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy,&nbsp;M\u011bstsk\u00e1 knihovna, v\u00fdstavn\u00ed s\u00e1ly, Praha\r\n1994&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ohniska znovuzrozen\u00ed,&nbsp;M\u011bstsk\u00e1 knihovna, Praha\r\n1993&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Z\u00e1znam nejrozmanit\u011bj\u0161\u00edch faktor\u016f\u2026 \u010cesk\u00e9 mal\u00ed\u0159stv\u00ed 2. poloviny 20. stolet\u00ed ze sb\u00edrek st\u00e1tn\u00edch galeri\u00ed,&nbsp;J\u00edzd\u00e1rna Pra\u017esk\u00e9ho hradu, Praha\r\n1992&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Minisalon,&nbsp;Galerie Nov\u00e1 s\u00ed\u0148, Praha\r\n1991&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u0160ed\u00e1 cihla 78\/1991,&nbsp;D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed v Opav\u011b, Opava\r\n1991&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u0160ed\u00e1 cihla 78\/1991,&nbsp;Galerie U B\u00edl\u00e9ho jednoro\u017ece, Klatovy\r\n1990&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pocta um\u011blc\u016f Jind\u0159ichovi Chalupeck\u00e9mu,&nbsp;M\u011bstsk\u00e1 knihovna, Praha\r\n1990&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; V\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 tendence,&nbsp;St\u0159edo\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, Praha\r\n1988&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Forum 1988,&nbsp;Hole\u0161ovick\u00e1 tr\u017enice, Praha\r\n1988&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jeden star\u0161\u00ed - jeden mlad\u0161\u00ed. Obrazy, sochy, realizace,&nbsp;Lidov\u00fd d\u016fm, Praha\r\n1988&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Art 1968-1988. A Tribute to Jacques Baruch,&nbsp;Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, Illinois\r\n1987&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Grotesknost v \u010desk\u00e9m v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 20. stolet\u00ed,&nbsp;Starom\u011bstsk\u00e1 radnice, Praha\r\n1984&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u010cesk\u00e1 kresba 20. stolet\u00ed ze sb\u00edrek Al\u0161ovy jiho\u010desk\u00e9 galerie,&nbsp;Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Hlubok\u00e9 nad Vltavou, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou\r\n1983&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wspo\u0142czesna sztuka czeska. Kolekcja Janiny Ojrzy\u0144skiej,&nbsp;Galeria Anny Weso\u0142owskiej, Lod\u017e\r\n1983&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chmelnice,&nbsp;Mut\u011bjovice, Mut\u011bjovice (Rakovn\u00edk)\r\n1983&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prostor, architektura, v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed,&nbsp;V\u00fdstavi\u0161t\u011b \u010cern\u00e1 Louka, Ostrava (neuskute\u010dn\u011bno)\r\n1983&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dessins tch\u00e8ques du 20e si\u00e8cle,&nbsp;Centre Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e\r\n1982&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Setk\u00e1n\u00ed,&nbsp;Tenisov\u00e9 dvorce TJ Sparta Praha, Praha\r\n1981&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Netvo\u0159ice \u00b481,&nbsp;D\u016fm Bed\u0159icha Dlouh\u00e9ho, Netvo\u0159ice (Bene\u0161ov)\r\n1980&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Die Kunst Osteuropas im 20. Jahrhundert,&nbsp;Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen\r\n1969&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u010cesk\u00e1 krajina,&nbsp;Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Hlubok\u00e9 nad Vltavou, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou\r\n1969&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trasa 1969,&nbsp;V\u00fdstavn\u00e1 sie\u0148 Zv\u00e4zu slovensk\u00fdch v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch umelcov, Bratislava\r\n1969&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trasa 1969,&nbsp;M\u00e1nes, Praha\r\n1968&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Po\u010d\u00e1tky generace,&nbsp;Galerie V\u00e1clava \u0160p\u00e1ly, Praha 1\r\n1968&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 50 let \u010deskoslovensk\u00e9ho mal\u00ed\u0159stv\u00ed 1918 - 1968,&nbsp;Pra\u017e\u00e1k\u016fv pal\u00e1c, Brno\r\n1966&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jarn\u00ed v\u00fdstava 1966,&nbsp;M\u00e1nes, Praha\r\n1966&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tschechoslowakische Kunst der Gegenwart,&nbsp;Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berl\u00edn\r\n1966&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Arte actual Checoslovaco,&nbsp;Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City\r\n1966&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aktu\u00e1ln\u00ed tendence \u010desk\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed. Obrazy, sochy, grafika,&nbsp;Galerie V\u00e1clava \u0160p\u00e1ly, Praha 1\r\n1965&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tschechoslowakische Kunst heute: Profile V,&nbsp;St\u00e4dtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum\r\n1965&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; La transfiguration de l\u00b4art tcfh\u00e9que: Peinture - sculpture - verre - collages,&nbsp;Palais de Congres, Liege\r\n1965&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nov\u00e9 cesty. P\u0159ehl\u00eddka sou\u010dasn\u00e9 avantgardy,&nbsp;D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed, Gottwaldov (Zl\u00edn)\r\n1964&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trasa,&nbsp;Galerie V\u00e1clava \u0160p\u00e1ly, Praha 1\r\n1963&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rychnov 1963,&nbsp;Z\u00e1mek Rychnov nad Kn\u011b\u017enou, Rychnov nad Kn\u011b\u017enou\r\n1961&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hlubok\u00e1 1961,&nbsp;Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Hlubok\u00e9 nad Vltavou, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou\r\n1961&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tv\u016fr\u010d\u00ed skupina Trasa,&nbsp;Galerie \u010ceskoslovensk\u00fd spisovatel, Praha\r\n1959&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trasa 54,&nbsp;Galerie Fronta, Praha\r\n1957&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trasa 54,&nbsp;Galerie mlad\u00fdch, Al\u0161ova s\u00ed\u0148 Um\u011bleck\u00e9 besedy, Praha 1","realizations_other":"","collections":"Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Hlubok\u00e9 nad Vltavou, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou (\u010cesk\u00e9 Bud\u011bjovice)\r\nCentre Georges Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e (Paris)\r\n\u010cesk\u00e9 muzeum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha\r\nGalerie Benedikta Rejta, Louny\r\nGalerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy, Praha (Prague)\r\nGalerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed v Roudnici nad Labem, Roudnice nad Labem (Litom\u011b\u0159ice)\r\nGalerie um\u011bn\u00ed Karlovy Vary, Karlovy Vary\r\nGalleria Weber, Tur\u00edn (Torino)\r\nJacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, Illinois\r\nKrajsk\u00e1 galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed ve Zl\u00edn\u011b, p. o., Zl\u00edn\r\nMoravsk\u00e1 galerie v Brn\u011b, Brno\r\nMuseum Bochum, Bochum\r\nMuzeum modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Skoplje\r\nMuzeum Sztuki w \u0141\u00f3dzi, Lod\u017e (\u0141\u00f3d\u017a)\r\nMuzeum Williama Bentona, Connecticut\r\nN\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze, Praha\r\nOblastn\u00ed galerie Vyso\u010diny v Jihlav\u011b, Jihlava\r\nP. O. S. servis s.r.o., _\r\nRice Museum, Houstoun\r\nSevero\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed v Litom\u011b\u0159ic\u00edch, Litom\u011b\u0159ice\r\nSeveromoravsk\u00e1 galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Ostrava\r\nSt\u00e4dtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum\r\nSt\u00e1tn\u00ed galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed v Chebu, Cheb\r\nV\u00fdchodo\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Pardubic\u00edch, Pardubice","monographies":"<b>Monografie \u2013 katalogy v\u00fdstav:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=115541\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka, text: \u010c. Kafka, V.Bruch\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1-Z\u00e1vodn\u00e1, Galerie Z\u00e1avodn\u00fd, Mikulov 2013<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=54507\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Krajiny mo\u017en\u00e9ho kon\u00e1n\u00ed, text: J.Rous, Spole\u010dnost Topi\u010dova salonu v Praze, 2008<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3083\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Obrazy, kresby, kol\u00e1\u017ee, asambl\u00e1\u017ee 1943-1988, text. K. Miller, K.Srp, \u010c.Kafka, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze 1994<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3080\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Troj\u00ed posledn\u00ed sm\u011b\u0159ov\u00e1n\u00ed, text: \u010c.Kafka, J.Hlav\u00e1\u010dek, J.\u0160etl\u00edk, S\u010cVU Praha 1989<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3064\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Kresby a obrazy z let 1942-1947, text: \u010c.Kafaka, F.\u0160mejkal, Artot\u00e9ka,&nbsp; Obvodn\u00ed knihovna v Praze 4, 1988<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3055\">\u010c. Kafka, text: J. Zemina, Kulturn\u00ed st\u0159edisko Opatov, Praha 1986<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3061\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka, text: J.Hlav\u00e1\u010dek, Mal\u00e1 galerie Stavoprojektu Brno 1986<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3030\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed, text: J.Zemina, Galerie 55, Kladno 1984<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3035\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Spojov\u00e1n\u00ed a asambl\u00e1\u017ee, text: J.Zemina, Foyer T\u011b\u0161\u00ednsk\u00e9ho divadla 1984<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3021\">\u010cestmir Kafka, text: L.Vachtov\u00e1, galeire l\u00b4Esacrbot, \u0160v\u00fdcarsko 1974<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3012\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka: Obrazy\/ grafika, text: L.Vachtov\u00e1, Oblastn\u00ed galerie Vyso\u010diny 1972 (v\u00fdstava se neuskute\u010dnila)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3011\">\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka, Obrazy, monotypy, kresby, Text: M. Lama\u010d, Galerie na Karlov\u011b n\u00e1m. Praha 1963<\/a> <b>Ostatn\u00ed literatura (v\u00fdb\u011br):<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=59713\">\u010cesk\u00e1 kol\u00e1\u017e, text: J.Machalick\u00fd, Gallery, spol. s r.o. (Jaroslav Ko\u0159\u00e1n), Praha 2010<\/a> Klime\u0161ov\u00e1 Marie&nbsp;,&nbsp;Roky ve dnech&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed 1945-1957),&nbsp;Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy, Praha, 2010 Hlav\u00e1\u010dek Josef&nbsp;,&nbsp;Cvi\u010den\u00ed z estetiky,&nbsp;Gallery, spol. s r.o. (Jaroslav Ko\u0159\u00e1n), Praha, 2007 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=26440\">\u0160edes\u00e1t\u00e1 \/ The sixties, text: M.Ju\u0159\u00edkov\u00e1, V.\u017delezn\u00fd, Galerie Zlat\u00e1 husa, Praha 2004<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=8\">Pr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e &nbsp;(V\u00fdb\u011br kreseb, grafik a kol\u00e1\u017e\u00ed \u010desk\u00fdch um\u011blc\u016f ze sb\u00edrky Jana a Medy Ml\u00e1dkov\u00fdch), text: J.Machalick\u00fd, M.Ml\u00e1dkov\u00e1, Museum Kampa, Praha 2003<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=100522\">Trasa,&nbsp; text: E.Petrov\u00e1, V\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 centrum Chagall, Ostrava 2002<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=15924\">Objekt - objekt \/ Object - object&nbsp;(Metamorf\u00f3zy v \u010dase \/ Metamorphoses in time), text: kol. autor\u016f, \u010cMVU, Praha 2001<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=23816\">Sou\u010dasn\u00e1 minulost&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e1 postmodern\u00ed moderna 1960\u20132000), text: V.Tetiva, AJG, Hlubok\u00e1 n.V. 2000<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=16150\">Um\u011bn\u00ed zrychlen\u00e9ho \u010dasu&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e1 v\u00fdtvarn\u00e1 sc\u00e9na 1958-1968), text: kol. autor\u016f, \u010cMVU Praha 1999<\/a> Hlav\u00e1\u010dek Josef&nbsp;,&nbsp;Um\u011bn\u00ed je to, co d\u011bl\u00e1 \u017eivot zaj\u00edmav\u011bj\u0161\u00ed ne\u017e um\u011bn\u00ed (jak prav\u00ed r.f.),&nbsp;Artefact, Praha, 1999 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=13551\">Mezi tradic\u00ed a experimentem&nbsp;(Pr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e a s pap\u00edrem v \u010desk\u00e9m v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 1939 - 1989), text: kol. autor\u016f, Muzeum um\u011bn\u00ed Olomouc 1997<\/a> Kafka \u010cestm\u00edr&nbsp;,&nbsp;O tom&nbsp;(texty),&nbsp;Vysok\u00e1 \u0161kola um\u011bleckopr\u016fmyslov\u00e1 (od 1945), Praha, 1997 Ne\u0161lehov\u00e1 Mahulena&nbsp;,&nbsp;Poselstv\u00ed jin\u00e9ho v\u00fdrazu&nbsp;(Pojet\u00ed informelu v \u010desk\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 50. a prvn\u00ed poloviny 60. let),&nbsp;Artefact, Praha, 1997 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=15832\">Um\u011bn\u00ed zastaven\u00e9ho \u010dasu \/ Art when time stood still&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e1 v\u00fdtvarn\u00e1 sc\u00e9na 1969 - 1985), text: kol autor\u016f, \u010cMVU Praha 1996<\/a> \u0160etl\u00edk Ji\u0159\u00ed&nbsp;,&nbsp;Cesty po ateli\u00e9rech&nbsp;(1976-1986),&nbsp;Torst, Praha, 1996 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=15841\">Um\u011bn\u00ed frot\u00e1\u017ee, text: R.drury, E.Petrov\u00e1, GVU Litom\u011b\u0159ice 1995<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=3842\">Z\u00e1znam nejrozmanit\u011bj\u0161\u00edch faktor\u016f\u2026&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e9 mal\u00ed\u0159stv\u00ed 2. ploviny 20. stolet\u00ed ze sb\u00edrek st\u00e1tn\u00edch galeri\u00ed), text: kol. autor\u016f, Rada st\u00e1tn\u00edch galeri\u00ed, Praha 1994<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=9578\">Ohniska znovuzrozen\u00ed&nbsp;(\u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed 1956 - 1963), text: M.Judlov\u00e1 a kol., GHMP 1994<\/a> Chalupeck\u00fd Jind\u0159ich&nbsp;,&nbsp;Nov\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed v \u010cech\u00e1ch,&nbsp;Nakladatelstv\u00ed a vydavatelstv\u00ed H&amp;H, s.r.o., Jino\u010dany, 1994 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=39\">\u0160ed\u00e1 cihla 78\/1991,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=98915\">Trasa, text: E.Petrov\u00e1, GVU Litom\u011b\u0159ice 1991<\/a> Hlav\u00e1\u010dek Josef&nbsp;,&nbsp;V\u00fdpov\u011bdi um\u011bn\u00ed,&nbsp;Severo\u010desk\u00e9 nakladatelstv\u00ed, \u00dast\u00ed nad Labem, 1991 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=7738\">Z nov\u00fdch zisk\u016f N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze (1987 - 1988), text: J.Kotal\u00edk, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze, 1989<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=6424\">Forum '88, text: kol. autor\u016f, Praha 1988<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=52145\">Twenty Years of Czechoslovak Art: 1968-1988&nbsp;(A Tribute to Jacques Baruch), Jacques Baruch Gallery, Chicago 1988<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=79218\">Grotesknost v \u010desk\u00e9m v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 20. stolet\u00ed, text: A.Pomajzlov\u00e1, GHMP 1987<\/a> Kroutvor Josef&nbsp;,&nbsp;Intern\u00e1ty&nbsp;(Kresby \u010cestm\u00edra Kafky z let 1943-45),&nbsp;Um\u011bleckopr\u016fmyslov\u00e9 museum, Praha1985 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=25668\">\u010cesk\u00e1 kresba 20. stolet\u00ed ze sb\u00edrek Al\u0161ovy jiho\u010desk\u00e9 galerie, text: B.Lauda, V.Tetiva, AJG, Ghlubok\u00e1 n.V. 1984<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=6976\">Prostor, architektura, v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed, text: kol. autor\u016f, KVSSM Ostrava 1983 (v\u00fdstava a katalog zak\u00e1z\u00e1ny)<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=80919\">Dessins tch\u00e8ques du 20e si\u00e8cle, text: J.claverie, F.\u0160mejkal,&nbsp;&nbsp; Mus\u00e9e national d'art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e 1983<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=60386\">Netvo\u0159ice \u00b481, text: J.Hlav\u00e1\u010dek, J.k\u0159\u00ed\u017e, J.\u0160etl\u00edk, samizdat 1981<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=35246\">Die Kunst Osteuropas im 20. Jahrhundert in \u00f6ffentlichen Sammlungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Berlins (West), text: P.Spielmann, Museum Bochum 1980<\/a> B\u00e9namou Genevi\u00e8ve&nbsp;,&nbsp;L\u00b4art aujourd\u00b4hui en Tchecoslovaquie,&nbsp;Genevi\u00e8ve B\u00e9namou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, 1979 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=90325\">Museum Bochum zeigt eigenen besitz moderne Kunst aus Osteuropa, text: P.Spielmann, Museum Bochum 1974<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=35255\">Museum Bochum&nbsp;(Kunstsamlung 1960 - 1970), Museum Bochum 1970<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=10436\">L\u00b4art tch\u00e9que actuel, text: M.M\u00ed\u010dko, Renault Champs - \u00c9lys\u00e9es, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, 12969<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=18038\">\u010cesk\u00e1 krajina, text: kol. autor\u016f, AJG, Hlubok\u00e1 n.V. 1969<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=100521\">Trasa 1969, text: \u010dlenov\u00e9 skupiny, M\u00e1nes, Praha 1969<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=376\">Po\u010d\u00e1tky generace, text: L.Nov\u00e1k, E.Petrov\u00e1, \u010cSVU, Praha 1968<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=362\">Aktu\u00e1ln\u00ed tendence \u010desk\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed \/ Tendances actuelles de l'art tch\u00e8que&nbsp;(Obrazy, sochy, grafika \/ Peintures, scluptures, gravures), text: M.M\u00ed\u010dko, AICA, Praha 1966<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=12514\">Jarn\u00ed v\u00fdstava 1966, text: J.Chalupeck\u00fd, E.Petrov\u00e1, J.Zemina, S\u010cVU, Praha 1966<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=13804\">Arte actual Checoslovaco, Ambas\u00e1da \u010cs. Republiky, Mexico City, 1966<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=60357\">Tschechoslowakische Kunst der Gegenwart, text: J.Chalupeck\u00fd, H.B.Scharoun, Akademie der K\u00fcnste, Berl\u00edn 1966<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=104230\">\u010cesk\u00e9 modern\u00ed mal\u00ed\u0159stv\u00ed&nbsp;(Exposice St\u0159edo\u010desk\u00e9 galerie), text: J.Kohoutek, St\u0159edo\u010desk\u00e1 galrie, Praha 1965<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=342\">Trasa, text: L.Nov\u00e1k, E.Petrov\u00e1, Galerie V.\u0160p\u00e1ly, Praha 1964<\/a> Hlav\u00e1\u010dek Lubo\u0161&nbsp;,&nbsp;Sou\u010dasn\u00e1 \u010deskoslovensk\u00e1 grafika,&nbsp;Nakladatelstv\u00ed \u010deskoslovensk\u00fdch v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011blc\u016f, Praha, 1964 <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=61108\">Rychnov 1963, mtext: J.Padrta, Rychnov n.Kn\u011b\u017enou 1963<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=88001\">Trasa, galerie \u010ceskoslovensk\u00fd spisovatel, Praha 1961<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=100523\">Trasa 54, Galerie |Frontas, Praha 1959<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abart-full.artarchiv.cz\/dokumenty.php?IDdokumentu=40962\">Trasa 54, text: A. Pohribn\u00fd, Um\u011bleck\u00e1 beseda, Praha 1957<\/a>","articles":"","reviews":"","texts_unlisted":"","annotations":[{"text":"\u010cestm\u00edr Kafka began his studies in art in 1940 at the School of Art in Zl\u00edn. His studies were interrupted when he was sent into forced labour (1942-43). He completed his education in 1945. He studied applied and decorative painting in architecture and advertising under Vladim\u00edr Hroch. Vincenc Makovsk\u00fd, known for his surrealist leanings, also taught at the school in Zl\u00edn.&nbsp; Kafka shared these leanings and his inclination in that direction was reinforced: in Zl\u00edn Kafka created numerous surrealist drawings, many of which resemble diary entries. He was also interested in literature, especially surrealist, and art theory. And he was politically active \u2013 attracted to this activity in part by his friendship with painter V\u00e1clav Chad, who was shot by the Gestapo. \r\n\r\nIn 1946-1949 Kafka studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under Emil Filla. Instruction in cubism introduced a new experience into the artist\u2019s surrealist world. The earlier echoes of Picasso\u2019s work (not just from his cubist period) began to mix with a rationally organised cubist articulation of the visual surface. \u010cestm\u00edr Kafka also went through a period of struggling to find a generational style, which was typical among students of art in that era. It was a time when the war had severed the natural course of artistic development, and when, after 1948, the dictatorship of Stalinist cultural ideology seized control. Most young artists then looked to pre-war trends for something to draw on. An example is Kafka\u2019s painting <i>Black Tables <\/i>(<i>\u010cern\u00e9 stoly<\/i>, 1946), in which the artist put his surrealist-cubist lessons to use, and in which there is still a sense of a waning wartime gloom. \r\n\r\nIn the second half of the 1950s some artists began coming together in different art groups centred on a shared outlook. \u010cestm\u00edr Kafka was a member of the group Route 45 (Trasa 54), which had its first exhibition in 1957, and whose members included other graduates of Filla\u2019s studio (E. Kmentov\u00e1, J. V\u00e1lov\u00e1, K. V\u00e1lov\u00e1, O. \u010cechov\u00e1, Z. Fibichov\u00e1, V. Precl\u00edk, K. Vaca, O. Zoubek, Z. \u0160imek). This group espoused the aesthetics of the poetry of everyday life. Simple, informal modernism was interpreted as a reaction to the pathos of clich\u00e9 images and the gestures of socialist realism so remote from real life. Kafka\u2019s paintings from this period are expressively sober and gravitate towards a constructivist composition of the visual elements (St\u0159echy, 1958; Velk\u00e9 st\u0159echy, 1960). The lessons of Paul Klee are deployed here, the inspiration for Kafka\u2019s paintings with character-type stylisations or even abstract in tone (<i>An Italian Town<\/i> \/ <i>Italsk\u00e9 m\u011bsto<\/i>, 1962).\r\n\r\nIn the 1960s \u010cestm\u00edr Kafka gravitated towards material \u2018painting\u2019. He applied thick layers of colour into which he mixed other elements and objects. Oil, plaster, enamel, sand, clay, glass, paper and other elements not usually used in painting were layered in various ways and their surfaces dug at and scratched to heighten the emotional component of the image. And he also devoted attention to the work\u2019s geometric organisation. In the end the image is dominated by a graphic character (<i>The Yellow Bride <\/i>\/ <i>\u017dlut\u00e1 nev\u011bsta<\/i>, 1965). Here the artist showed his talent in two fields: he was someone who perceived the world sensitively and with poetic reflection, and he was also a person with a rationalist inclination. That aspect began to dominate in the late 1970s, though Kafka never became a constructivist artist in the pure sense. At the back of his work there are always what seem to be remote surrealist echoes from the early days of his journey. A painting was often sparked by a memory from his personal life, a landscape, or something he had experienced. And perhaps that is why we often have a sense of some mysterious code at play in Kafka\u2019s work (<i>Little Sheep Pen, White <\/i>\/<i>Ov\u010dinec, b\u00edl\u00fd<\/i>, 1970).\r\n\r\nThere is also a strong imaginative feeling to paintings such as <i>Measurement <\/i>(<i>M\u011b\u0159en\u00ed<\/i>, 1970), the cycle <i>Parting Cubes <\/i>(<i>Rozestupuj\u00edc\u00ed se krychle<\/i>, 1971) and <i>Drawing for the Installation of a Piece of Equipment<\/i> (<i>N\u00e1kres k&nbsp;instalaci za\u0159\u00edzen\u00ed<\/i>, 1972). In these works the expressive device is no longer the material but lines, seemingly marked out in black on a white base. Here Kafka was at his freest in the sense of minimising his devices. This is a direction of his work than runs right through the 1970s and extends even into the early 1980s (<i>Window-Brani\u0161ov <\/i>\/ <i>Okno-Brani\u0161ov<\/i>, 1977; <i>Old Garden II<\/i> \/ <i>Star\u00e1 zahrada II<\/i>, 1984-86). The paintings capture the atmosphere of infinite timelessness, which can be interpreted as a statement of the artist\u2019s feelings in the normalisation era. The world is colourless, figures illegible, spaces silent and empty. The illusionary-architectural images of a world without life testify to an existential experience of existence and pull us into the sphere of metaphysics, as a place of refuge from the sense of hopelessness at that time. &nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlong with these works on the philosophy of existence, from 1973 Kafka was creating objects that incarnated his faith in the expressive force of materials. This was the motivation for the cycles <i>Piercing<\/i> (<i>Pror\u00e1\u017een\u00ed<\/i>), <i>Months <\/i>(<i>M\u011bs\u00edce<\/i>) and <i>On the Union of Two Things<\/i> (<i>O spojov\u00e1n\u00ed dvou v\u011bc\u00ed<\/i>), which continued into the 1980s and which the artist referred to familiarly as \u2018connect-the-dot\u2019 works.&nbsp; They have a diary-like quality to them (another link to surrealism). The artist covered the surface with various objects and connected them to each other in different ways. For Kafka connection was almost a ritual process, in which he comes to an awareness of himself. He would take remnants of clothes, used packaging, and other relics of the human world and cut and fold and sew and bind them together. These simple materials and the simple way in which they were worked evoke spirituality, an area Kafka was constantly drawn to as a place where it is possible to find meaning in life. \r\n\r\nIn the 1980s Kafka worked on the cycle <i>Substances<\/i> (<i>Hmoty<\/i>, 1983-84). He focused on creating intellectually more direct assemblages with a more material impression. The artist would loosely arrange natural materials (grass, ash, clay, roots, leaves) on a soft foundation of assembled padding and then press everything together beneath a transparent Plexiglas panel. &nbsp;\r\n\r\nAlthough Kafka\u2019s work had intellectual foundations, its source was his strong emotions. An interest in philosophical questions of existence (especially in the existential sense) was balanced by leanings towards simple, natural, everyday materials. The high points of Kafka\u2019s work include his painted \u2018white paintings\u2019, filled with ethereal constructive elements, and his assemblage cycles, in which he made use of direct contact with the material. In both aspects we can see a metaphor for Kafka\u2019s feelings and views in life, which constituted fusions of strong personal emotions amended by rationalism, and which at the same time were infused with ideas that sprang from the artist\u2019s unconscious or his reflections on life. \r\n\r\n","date":2015,"authors":[1853]}],"artworks":[113921,113922,113923,113924,113925,113926,113927,113928,113929,113930,113931,113932,113933,113934,113935,113936,113937,113938,113939],"videos":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kafka - Artlist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/cestmir-kafka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kafka - 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