{"id":121780,"date":"2024-07-10T23:05:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:devel.artlist.cz\/artist\/vesely-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:37:02","slug":"ales-vesely","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/ales-vesely\/","title":{"rendered":"Vesel\u00fd"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-121780","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","keyword-sculpture"],"acf":{"nicknames":"","date_born":1935,"date_death":2015,"place_born":"\u010c\u00e1slav","lives":"Prague and St\u0159edokluky","web":"http:\/\/www.ales-vesely.cz\/","idatum":"","address":"U koupali\u0161t\u011b 37, 252 68 St\u0159edokluky","email":"alesvesely@hotmail.com","phone":"420 233 900 161","biography":"1990-2006 Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague\r\n1952-1958 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague\r\n\r\nSchilarships:\r\n1995 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Chicago, IL, USA\r\n1993 Arts Link Fellowship at The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA\r\n1986 International Sculpture Center Fellowship, Washington D.C., USA\r\n\r\nAwards\r\n1994 The Chicago Prize, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA\r\n1969 Cena Maty\u00e1\u0161e Brauna za sochu Kaddish na v\u00fdstav\u011b Socha a m\u011bsto, Liberec \r\n1965 Cena kritiky za sochu \u017didle usurp\u00e1tor na IV. Bien\u00e1le mlad\u00fdch v Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017ei, Francie","groups":[121074],"membership":"","exhibitions_solo":"2010\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd, disproporce dimenz\u00ed \u2013 fragmenty z\u00e1znam\u016f, Galerie Sme\u010dky, Praha\r\n\r\n2009\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd v prostor\u00e1ch Josefa Pleskota, Litomy\u0161l\r\n\r\n2008\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd, Bl\u00edzk\u00e9 a dalek\u00e9, Galerie V Kapli, Brunt\u00e1l\r\nKresby, Dus\u00edkovo divadlo \u010c\u00e1slav\r\n\r\n2007\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd, V\u00fdchodo\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, Pardubice\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd, Galerie Klatovy\/Klenov\u00e1, Klenov\u00e1\r\nSta\u0159\u0161\u00ed objekty a nov\u00e9 projekty, Z\u00e1pado\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, Plze\u0148\r\n\r\n2006\r\nAle\u0161 Vesel\u00fd, Galerie Zlat\u00e1 Husa, Praha\r\n\r\n2005\r\nVybran\u00e9 pr\u00e1ce z let 1959-2005, Egon Schiele Art Centrum, \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov\r\nT\u0159i br\u00e1ny, \u017didovsk\u00e9 museum, Praha\r\n\r\n2003\r\nKresby z let 1962 \u2013 1998, Galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Cheb\r\nInfinite Point, Carosso Fine Art, New York, USA\r\nHora hor, \u017didovsk\u00e9 museum, Praha \r\n\r\n2000\r\nBig Mirror \u2013 Exhibition of a Landscape-Sculpture Project, Oda Park, Venray, Nizozem\u00ed\r\nUtopie und Reflexion, Panorama Museum, Bad Frankenhausen, N\u011bmecko\r\nKresby a projekty, Galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Litom\u011b\u0159ice \r\n\r\n1999\r\nObsese \u2013 realita \u2013 utopie, St\u00e1tn\u00ed galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Ostrava \r\nObsese \u2013 realita \u2013 utopie, Galerie u b\u00edl\u00e9ho jednoro\u017ece, Klatovy \r\n\r\n1998\r\nObsese \u2013 realita \u2013 utopie, St\u00e1tn\u00ed galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed v Chebu, Cheb \r\nObsese - realita \u2013 utopie, Galerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9,  \r\nNew Drawings for Skulptures Chicago, International Currents Gallery - J.D. Mooney Foundation, USA \r\n\r\n1995\r\nThe Czech Center, New York City, USA\r\nInstituto Culturale Italiano, Praha \r\nMessengers, International Currents Gallery \u2013 J. D. Mooney Foundation, Chicago, IL., USA\r\n\r\n1994\r\nCentrum kultury a vzd\u011bl\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00ed, Ostrava \r\nChicago International Art Exhibition, Chicago, IL., USA\r\nArtforum, Karlovy Vary \r\n\r\n1993\r\nFabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA., USA\r\nDeutsch-deutsches Museum, M\u00f6dlareuth, N\u011bmecko\r\nGalerie Christoph D\u00fcrr, Mnichov, N\u011bmecko\r\n\r\n1992\r\nSt\u0159edoevropsk\u00e1 galerie a nakladatelstv\u00ed, Praha\r\nPoint of Limit, M\u00ed\u010dovna, Pra\u017esk\u00fd hrad, Praha  \r\n\r\n1990\r\nGalerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Kladno \r\nNov\u00e1 s\u00ed\u0148, Praha \r\nKulturn\u00ed st\u0159edisko Opatov, Praha \r\n\r\n1988\r\nBatuz Foundation, Schloss Schaumburg \r\n\r\n1987\r\nGalerie 55, Kladno \r\n\r\n1985\r\nBilderzeichnungen, Galerie Christoph D\u00fcrr, Mnichov, N\u011bmecko\r\nKresby malbou, \u00dastav makromolekul\u00e1rn\u00ed chemie \u010cSAV\r\n\r\n1984\r\nPal\u00e1c U melouna, Praha \r\n\r\n1980\r\nGustav-L\u00fcbcke-museum, Hamm, N\u011bmecko \r\n\r\n1979\r\n\u010cinohern\u00ed klub, Praha \r\n\r\n1970\r\nSt\u00e1tn\u00ed \u017eidovsk\u00e9 museum, Praha \r\n\r\n1969\r\nWiener Secession, V\u00edde\u0148, Rakousko \r\n\r\n1965\r\nOblastn\u00ed galerie, Liberec  \r\n\r\n1963\r\nStigmatick\u00e9 objekty, Al\u0161ova s\u00ed\u0148, Praha","exhibitions_group":"(selection)\r\n2008\r\nSoust\u0159ed\u011bn\u00fd pohled, Oblastn\u00ed Galerie Vyso\u010diny, Jihlava, Czech Republic\r\n\r\n2007\r\nSoust\u0159ed\u011bn\u00fd pohled, Oblastn\u00ed Galerie, Liberec, Czech Republic\r\nSculpture Forum, Spacium, Liberec\r\nHory, sk\u00e1ly, kameny, Oblastn\u00ed galerie Vyso\u010diny, Jihlava\r\nOd sochy\u2026, Galerie Klatovy\/Klenov\u00e1\r\n\r\n2006\r\nHory, sk\u00e1ly, kameny, \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha\r\nBilance, D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed, Opava\r\nZ\u00e1va\u017en\u00e1 hra aneb \u010desk\u00e1 a slovensk\u00e1 asambl\u00e1\u017e, Galerie Millenium, Praha\r\nSculpture Grande, Gallery Art Factory, Praha\r\n\u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed XX. stolet\u00ed \/1940-1970, Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v Hlubok\u00e9 nad Vltavou\r\nDARY &NEDARY, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\r\nEmigration out\/in 2. d\u00edl, Galerie Palais am Festungsgraben, Berl\u00edn, N\u011bmecko\r\n\u0160edes\u00e1t\u00e1, Galerie um\u011bn\u00ed Karlovy Vary\r\n\r\n2005\r\nRozb\u00edt hranice, Galerie Franti\u0161ka Drtikola, P\u0159\u00edbram\r\nProstor a \u010das, Galerie Modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Roudnice nad Labem \r\nOd zem\u011b p\u0159es kopec do nebe... Severo\u010desk\u00e1 galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed v Litom\u011b\u0159ic\u00edch\r\nExprese, \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha \r\n\r\n2004\r\n\u0160edes\u00e1t\u00e1, D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed, Brno \r\n\r\n2003\r\nPr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e ze sb\u00edrky Musea Kampa, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy \r\nSculpture Grande, Gallery Art Factory, V\u00e1clavsk\u00e9 n\u00e1m\u011bst\u00ed, Praha \r\nO technice, \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha \r\nAsociace a paralely, Galerie Cesar, Olomouc \r\nUm\u011bn\u00ed je abstrakce, Moravsk\u00e1 galerie, Brno \r\nUm\u011bn\u00ed je abstrakce, J\u00edzd\u00e1rna Pra\u017esk\u00e9ho hradu \r\n\r\n2002\r\nPoezie magick\u00e9ho realismu, Galerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Roudnice nad Labem\r\n\u010cesk\u00e1 grafika, Galerie M\u00e1nes, Praha \r\nO \u017eidli, D\u016fm um\u011bn\u00ed, Opava \r\nObjekt \u2013 Metamorfozy v \u010dase, Moravsk\u00e1 galerie, Brno\r\n\r\n2001\r\nObjekt \u2013 Metamorfozy v \u010dase, \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha\r\n\r\n2000\r\nAktu\u00e1ln\u00ed nekone\u010dno, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy, Praha \r\n\u010cesk\u00e1 kamenn\u00e1 skulptura 90. let, Pra\u017esk\u00fd hrad, Praha\r\nKonec sv\u011bta?, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze \u2013 Pal\u00e1c Kinsk\u00fdch, Praha\r\n\r\n1998\r\nInternational Art Exposition, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA, USA\r\nStones and Stars, Hv\u011bzd\u00e1rna, Ond\u0159ejov \r\n\r\n1997\r\n\u010cesk\u00e9 imaganativn\u00ed um\u011bn\u00ed, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha\r\n\r\n1996\r\nUm\u011bn\u00ed zastaven\u00e9ho \u010dasu. \u010cesk\u00e1v\u00fdtvarn\u00e1 sc\u00e9na 1969 \u2013 1985, \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha; Moravsk\u00e1 galerie, Brno; St\u00e1tn\u00ed galerie v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Cheb \r\nFaret Tachikawa \u2013 m\u011bsto a um\u011bn\u00ed dnes, Technick\u00e9 museum, Praha\r\nMilleniumkulturfest \u2013 Skulpturengelande Burgstal, K.N.O.T.E.N., Berndorf, Rakousko\r\n25kunstenaars uit de Tsjechische en de Slowaakse Republiek, Venray, Holandsko\r\nV prostoru 20. stolet\u00ed \u2013 \u010desk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed ze sb\u00edrky galerie, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\r\n\r\n1994\r\nOhniska znovuzrozen\u00ed. \u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed 1955 \u2013 1963, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\r\nZ\u00e1znam nejrozmanit\u011bj\u0161\u00edch faktor\u016f, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze \u2013 J\u00edzd\u00e1rna Pra\u017esk\u00e9ho hradu, Praha\r\n\r\n1993\r\n\u010cesk\u00e1 grafika 60. let, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze \u2013 Pal\u00e1c Kinsk\u00fdch, Praha\r\nArchetypy, M\u00e1nes, Praha\r\nPardubick\u00e9 valy, V\u00fdchodo\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, Pardubice \r\nHoffnung gegen Gewalt. Skulpturenprojekt am Max-Joseph-Platz an der Oper, Mnichov, N\u011bmecko\r\n\r\n1992\r\nThe Biennale of Excellent Maquettes, The Hakone Museum, Tokyo, Japonsko\r\nRegard Multiple, Centre Georges Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nNICAF \u2013 Yokohama 92, Yokohama, Japonsko\r\n\r\n1991\r\n\u0160ed\u00e1 cihla, Galerie U b\u00edl\u00e9ho jednoro\u017ece, Klatovy\r\nTradizion und Avantgard in Prag, Rheinissssches Landes Museum, Bonn, N\u011bmecko\r\nTradizion und Avantgard in Prag, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, N\u011bmecko\r\nQuindicesima bienale internazionale del bronzetto e piccole scultura, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, It\u00e1lie\r\n\r\n1990\r\nSou\u010dasn\u00e1 \u010desk\u00e1 kresba, Moravsk\u00e1 galerie, Brno\r\nMezin\u00e1rodn\u00ed sympozium soch a objekt\u016f, Starom\u011bstsk\u00e9 dvorky, Praha\r\nKunst als subversives Element \u2013 Tschechoslowakei 1939-1990, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berl\u00edn, N\u011bmecko\r\nV\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 tendence druh\u00e9 poloviny 20. stolet\u00ed (ze sb\u00edrek St\u0159edo\u010desk\u00e9 galerie), \u010cesk\u00e9 museum modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha\r\nPocta Jind\u0159ichu Chalupeck\u00e9mu, N\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie v Praze\r\n\r\n1989\r\nEastern European Art since 1960, Akron Art Museum, OH, USA\r\nInternational Art Exhibition, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA\r\nForum 1988, Pra\u017esk\u00e1 tr\u017enice, Praha\r\nBarevn\u00e1 plastika, Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy \u2013 Vojanovy sady\r\nContemporary Art in Czechoslovakia, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA\r\nTwenty Years of Czechoslovak Art 1968 \u2013 88, Jaques Baruch Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA\r\nThe World Open \u2013 Air sculpture Exhibition, Olympics of Art, Seoul, Ji\u017en\u00ed Korea\r\n\r\n1988\r\nHandzeichnungen und Druckgraphik, Gustav-L\u00fcbcke Museum, Hamm, Paderborn, Arnsberg, Soest, Cuxhafen, N\u011bmecko\r\nOne Day Museum, Museum Morsbroich - Leuverkusen, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum - Duisburg, Deutsche Bank - Frankfurt am Main, N\u011bmecko\r\nMezi meditac\u00ed a expres\u00ed, \u00dastav makromolekul\u00e1rn\u00ed chemie, Praha\r\nDrawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, USA\r\nExpressiv, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA\r\n\r\n1987\r\nExpressiv, Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts, V\u00edde\u0148, Rakousko\r\nAnxiety, Contemporary Art from Central Europ, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA\r\n\r\n1986\r\nRecent Acquisitions, Salomon R.. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US A\r\n\r\n1985\r\n1st International Sculpture in Open Air, Castellanza, It\u00e1lie\r\nRecent Acquisitions, Salomon R.. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA\r\n\r\n1983\r\nDessins Tch\u00e9ques du XX \u00e9me si\u00e9cle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nOkno v d\u00edle 10 sou\u010dasn\u00fdch um\u011blc\u016f, Letohr\u00e1dek, Ostrov nad Oh\u0159\u00ed\r\n\u010cesk\u00e1 kresba, Al\u0161ova jiho\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou\r\n\r\n1980\r\nEleven Contemporary Artists from Prague, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA\r\n\r\n1979\r\nStadt und Bildhauerei, Bochum, N\u011bmecko\r\n\r\n1970\r\nTschechische Skulptur des XX. Jahrhunderts von Myslbek bis zur Gegenwart, Orangerie des Schlosses Charlottenburg, Berl\u00edn, N\u011bmecko\r\nIII. Internazionale der Zeichnung, Darmstadt, N\u011bmecko\r\n\r\n1969\r\nSocha a m\u011bsto, Liberec\r\n\r\n1968\r\nSculpture Contemporaine Tch\u00e9colsovaque. De Myslbek \u00e1 nos jours, Mus\u00e9e Rodin, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nSocha pie\u0161\u0165ansk\u00fdch parkov 68\u00b4, Pie\u0161\u0165any, Slovensk\u00e1 republika\r\n\r\n1967\r\nMezin\u00e1rodn\u00ed symposium prostorov\u00fdch forem, Ostrava\r\n9 Biennale voor Beeldhouwkunst, Middelheim, Antwerpy, Belgie\r\nFantazijn\u00ed aspekty, \u0160p\u00e1lova galerie, Praha\r\n\r\n1966\r\nThe 5th International Biennal of Prints, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japonsko\r\nNouvelle generation tch\u00e9coslovaque, Galerie Maya, Brusel, Belgie\r\nKunst der Gegenwart, Akademie der bildende Kunste, Berl\u00edn, N\u011bmecko\r\n14 Grafiker aus Prag, Folkwang-Museum, Essen, N\u011bmecko\r\nAktu\u00e1ln\u00ed tendence \u010desk\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, S\u00ed\u0148 \u010cs. Spisovatele, Praha\r\n\r\n1965\r\nJeune avantgarde tch\u00e9coslovaque, Galerie Lambert, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nIVeme Biennale des Jeunes, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nModerne Malerei und Graphik aus der Tschechoslowakei, Kleine Galerie Munich, N\u011bmecko\r\nAlternative Attuali 2, Castello Spagnolo, L\u2019Aquila, It\u00e1lie\r\nAutour du surr\u00e9alisme, Caen, Francie\r\nMouvements Phases, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Ixelles, Brussels, Belgie\r\n\r\n1964\r\nV\u00fdstava D, Nov\u00e1 s\u00ed\u0148, Praha\r\n\r\n1962\r\nArgumenty 62, Galerie Krzywe Kolo, Warsawa, Polsko\r\n\r\n1960\r\nKonfrontace II., v\u00fdstava v ateli\u00e9ru A. Vesel\u00e9ho, Praha\r\nKonfrontace I., v\u00fdstava v ateli\u00e9ru J. Valenty, Praha","realizations_other":"Sculptures in Public Spaces:\r\n2008 Holocaust Memorial, p\u0159ed b\u00fdvalou synagogou v Kutn\u00e9 Ho\u0159e, k\u00e1men, nerez ocel, \u017eelezo, 200 x 200 x 200 cm\r\n1998-2001 Chamber of Light, Europos Parkas, Vilnius (Litva), \u017eelezo, ocel a balvany, 777 x 430 x 430 cm\r\n1999 Messenger, Sculpture Park, Wijk aan Zee (Nizozem\u00ed), ocel a balvany, 530 x 376 x 609 cm\r\n1996 Memento, socha z roku 1968 permanentn\u011b um\u00edst\u011bna ve m\u011bst\u011b Vernay (Nizozem\u00ed), nerez ocel, v. 450 cm\r\n1995 Magen David, Pam\u00e1tn\u00edk Terez\u00edn, nerez ocel, pobronzovan\u00e9 \u017eelezni\u010dn\u00ed koleje, balvany, v. 560 cm\r\n1994 Doublebench, Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo, nerez ocel, diorit, 240 x 240 x 70 cm\r\n1988 Testimony, socha z roku 1968 permanentn\u011b um\u00edst\u011bn\u00e1 v Olympijsk\u00e9m parku v Soulu, nerez ocel, v. 280 cm\r\n1980 Ten - Onen, sva\u0159ovan\u00e1 socha z nerez oceli p\u0159ed \u0161kolou Ed. Sprangera, Hamm (N\u011bmecko), v. 12 m\r\n1979 Iron Report, m\u011bstsk\u00fd park, Bochum (N\u011bmecko), soubor t\u0159\u00ed \u017eelezn\u00fdch soch, I. 750 x 900 x 220 cm, II. 330 x 360 x 180 cm, III. 280 x 220 x 110 cm\r\n1973 Trouba z Jericha, Nov\u00e9 Sedlo u Karlov\u00fdch Var\u016f, nerez ocel, 210 x 390 x 230 cm","collections":"The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA\r\nCentre Georges Pompidou, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nUffizi Gallery, Firenze, It\u00e1lie\r\nSculpture Collection \u2013 Olympic Park, Seoul, Ji\u017en\u00ed Korea\r\nRunnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California, USA\r\nAlbertina, V\u00edde\u0148, Rakousko\r\nMuseum Folkwang, Essen, N\u011bmecko\r\nMuseum Bochum, Bochum, N\u011bmecko\r\nGustav-L\u00fcbcke-Museum, Hamm, N\u011bmecko\r\nBiblioth\u00e9que Nationale, Pa\u0159\u00ed\u017e, Francie\r\nMuzeum Pomorza \u015arodkowego, S\u0142upsk, Polsko\r\nN\u00e1rodn\u00ed galerie, Praha\r\nSt\u0159edoevropsk\u00e9 forum Olomouc\r\nGalerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\r\nMuseum hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\r\n\u017didovsk\u00e9 Muzeum Praha\r\n\u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha\r\nMuseum Kampa, Praha\r\nGalerie Zlat\u00e1 Husa, Praha\r\nMoravsk\u00e1 galerie, Brno\r\n\r\nRegional Galleries: Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, Hlubok\u00e1 nad Vltavou, Cheb, Klatovy-Klenov\u00e1, Liberec, Louny, Ostrava, Pardubice, Plze\u0148, Roudnice nad Labem, Ostrov nad Oh\u0159\u00ed, Terez\u00edn\r\n\r\nPrivate Collections: USA, Cabada, Japan, Israel, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, New Zealand, Austria, Czech Republic","monographies":"Catalogues of individual exhibitions from 1992:\r\n\r\nNetopil, Pavel; Pleskot, Josef; Slab\u00e1, Jolana; Rousov\u00e1, Hanna; Vesel\u00fd Ale\u0161; Zadrob\u00edlek, Vladislav. Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd v prostor\u00e1ch Josefa Pleskota. Litomy\u0161l. 2009\r\nVesel\u00fd, Ale\u0161. Nov\u00e9 projekty a star\u0161\u00ed objekty. Plze\u0148: Z\u00e1pado\u010desk\u00e1 galerie, 2007.\r\nMachalick\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed; Zdeno Pavelka. Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd \u2013 Vybran\u00e9 pr\u00e1ce z let 1959 \u2013 2005. Praha: 2006.\r\nH\u00e1jkov\u00e1, Michaela. Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd \u2013 Three Gates. Praha: \u017didovsk\u00e9 Museum, 2005.\r\nCarosso Fine Arts. Vesel\u00fd Ale\u0161 - Infinite Point. New York: Carosso, LLC, 2003.\r\nH\u00e1jkov\u00e1, Michaela; Vesel\u00fd, Ale\u0161. Hora hor \u2013 Pou\u0161tn\u00ed projekty Ale\u0161e Vesel\u00e9ho, Praha: \u017didovsk\u00e9 muzeum, 2003.\r\nKober, Rudolf; Linder, Gerd. Utopie und Reflexion: Bad Frankenhausen: Panorama Museum, 2000.\r\nHlav\u00e1\u010dek, Josef; Lowenstein, Tom; Ne\u0161lehov\u00e1, Mahulena; Raimanov\u00e1, Ivona; Restany, Pierre; \u0160mejkal, Franti\u0161ek; Vesel\u00fd, Ale\u0161 \u2013 Obsese-realita-utopie. Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9: Galerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, 1998.\r\nKot\u00edk, Charlotta; Messer, Thomas; Raimanov\u00e1, Ivona. Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd \u2013 Point of Limit, Praha: Spr\u00e1va Pra\u017esk\u00e9ho hradu, 1992.\r\n\r\nMonographs and Catalogues of Group Exhibitions from 1992:\r\nSchonberg, Michal. Projdi tou branou! Rozhovory s Ale\u0161em Vesel\u00fdm. Praha: Torst, 2006.\r\nKolektiv autor\u016f. \u010cesk\u00e9 ateli\u00e9ry. Praha: Art CZ, 2005.\r\nSchonberg, Michal. Walk through that gate! Conversation with Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd. Praha: Torst, 2005.\r\nPot\u016f\u010dkov\u00e1, Alena. Exprese, Praha: \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, 2005.\r\nJu\u0159\u00edkov\u00e1, Magdal\u00e9na. \u0160edes\u00e1t\u00e1. Praha: Galerie Zlat\u00e1 Husa, 2004; 380-391.\r\nMl\u00e1dkov\u00e1, Meda; Machalick\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed. Pr\u00e1ce na pap\u00ed\u0159e. Praha: Museum Kampa, 2003.\r\nPrimus, Zdenek. Um\u011bn\u00ed je abstrakce. Praha: Kant, Arbor Vitae, 2003; 96-99.\r\nNe\u0161lehov\u00e1, Mahulena. Poselstv\u00ed jin\u00e9ho v\u00fdrazu. Pojet\u00ed \u201cinformelu\u201d v \u010desk\u00e9m um\u011bn\u00ed 50. a prvn\u00ed poloviny 60. let, Praha: \u00dastav d\u011bjin um\u011bn\u00ed AV \u010cR\/Art et fact, 1997; 47, 48, 55-57, 59, 66, 116, 145,, 150, 151, 154, 173, 174, 177, 184, 193, 238-240, 245-247, 249, 258, 260, 262-264, 266, 269, 271, 272, obr.: 3, 52, 53, 147-149, 172, 185-187.\r\n\u0160mejkal, Franti\u0161ek. \u010cesk\u00e9 imaginativn\u00ed um\u011bn\u00ed, Praha: Galerie Rudolfinum, 1996; 385, 414, 417, 427-434, 455, 471, 554, 581, repr.: 427, 430, 431, 520, 552, 553, 554.\r\nPot\u016f\u010dkov\u00e1, Alena. Um\u011bn\u00ed zastaven\u00e9ho \u010dasu. \u010cesk\u00e1 v\u00fdtvarn\u00e1 sc\u00e9na 1969 \u2013 1985, Praha: \u010cesk\u00e9 museum v\u00fdtvarn\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed, 1996..\r\nKimura, Mitsuhiro; Kitagawa, Fram. A \u201cNew Century\u201d for City and Public Art. Faret Tachikawa Art Project, Tokyo: Gendaikikushitsu Publishers, 1995.\r\nJudlov\u00e1, Marie. Ohniska znovuzrozen\u00ed.\u010cesk\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed 1956 \u2013 1963. Praha: Galerie hlavn\u00edho m\u011bsta Prahy\/ \u00dastav d\u011bjin um\u011bn\u00ed AV \u010cR, 1994; 10, 114, 154, 192, 292, 303-304, 325-326, obr.: 114-117, 184-187\r\nRestany, Pierre. Visionaire de la modernit\u00e9 industrielle. Praha: Galerie Pallas, 1994.\r\n\u010cih\u00e1kov\u00e1-Noshiro, Vlasta. Archetypy, Praha: M\u00e1nes, 1993.\r\nFeddersen, J. Soft Sculpture and Beyond. An International Perspective. (East Roadsville, Australia, 1993); 9, 158-161.\r\nWittlich, Petr. \u201eSituace 92\u201d. In: Situace 92, Praha, 1992.","articles":"","reviews":"","texts_unlisted":"","annotations":[{"text":"Ale\u0161 Vesel\u00fd's are linked with informel - the local version of international post-war abstraction. Several artists of differing generations arrived at it from different positions at the end of the 1950s. Vesel\u00fd created his object-pictures from non-art materials (sheet metal, fabrics, old frames) that he connected with varnishes, scorched with a blowtorch, and thereby preserved or emphasised their rawness. At first they were very similar to the work of his fellow artists from informel's younger generation, but soon his work took on an unmistakable form.\r\n\r\nThe basic motifs consisted of either barbs and spikes that protruded from the objects, or crevices bringing to mind open wounds; the artist called these works Stigmatic Objects. All this gives the impression that these objects went through a painful process of a kind of purgative spiritual transmutation. This partly destroyed them and also wholly transformed and spiritualised the material from which they are created, so that they give the impression of old and rare relics despite their rawness. His later works Enigmatic Objects or Enigmata bring to mind with their treatment religious or military standards and, owing to their symmetry, vertically graded segmentation and gilding, they have a certain hieratical character that again links to religious and military symbolism. Today we could imagine them as the insignia of a dark prince from current fantasy films trying to use black magic and brutal force to rule the world.\r\n\r\nThis also applies for the anthropomorphic welded sculpture Chair Usurper (1964), in which an accent is already evident on the symbolic element of dark force and power. This sculpture also brought him his first significant recognition when he received the Critics\u2019 Prize in Paris at the 4th Biennale. All of Vesel\u00fd's work at that time featured imaginative and fantastic aspects. The pinnacle of the stage was the monumental Kaddish that he created with other sculptures in 1967 at the International Symposium of Spatial Forms in Ostrava. The chance to work in this unique milieu captivated him to such a degree that he remained there even after it had ended. Here, too, the title has a sacral dimension: during the symposium his father died, so Vesel\u00fd named the sculpture after the Jewish prayer for the dead.\r\n\r\nIn 1969, Kaddish was transferred to the Sculpture and City exhibition in Liberec where the artist received the M. Braun Prize of the 1st Degree for it. Another of his sculptures of a similar nature is the three-meter high Memento (1968), intended as a preparatory study of the ten-times larger, unrealized sculpture for the Terez\u00edn Monument. Here there already appears the motive of a suspended load that prefigures his later work. \r\n\r\nIn the late 1960s, Vesel\u00fd was a successful sculptor approaching international recognition. But then came a fateful turning point. The transformation of social relations following August 1968 and serious personal reasons led him to withdraw into a reclusive life. He began to gradually build a studio for his monumental works in an abandoned and dilapidated farm in St\u0159edokluky not far from Prague. He placed his works in the farm's exteriors and in doing so created a large sculpture environment. His work maintained a monumental scale and expression. He began to work with found objects (beds, chairs, wagons), leaving on them the patina of age and decay and shifting them to an existential expression.\r\n\r\nLater at the turn of the 1980s, physical forces themselves entered into his sculptures in the form of giant boulders, tree trunks and metal plates or the tension of large springs. His pendulum, compasses or weights break away from the oppressive existential theme linked to the period of their creation toward and move toward deeper archetypal contents. Starting in the early 1990s, he added another such theme \u2013 the gate. At the same time he created monumental designs, sometimes even utopian-like projects of a land art nature that were especially meant for a desert environment. \r\n\r\nAfter 1989, Vesel\u00fd received full rehabilitation. He became a professor of the Prague Academy, organized a large exhibition (Prague Castle) and made several sculptures around the world. He was also accompanied by a certain sadness \u2013 Kaddish never took hold for long, even if the architect Mas\u00e1k enlisted him starting in the early 1990s for the vestibule of the new renovated Veletr\u017en\u00ed Palace. A Cliff for One, one of his most impressive sculptures, broke while transferring it to Klenov\u00e1 following an unfortunate purchase to a private collection where it was to be permanently exhibited in a park of sculptures there; not even his monumental sculpture in front of the gallery in the Jesuit college in Kutn\u00e1 Hora was realized in the end. The Kadesh Barnea Monument Israel still hasn't been carried out. A 12-meter monument made of a massive stone block of triangular shape and weighing nearly 500 tonnes was to loom over the Negev Desert. It was to be positioned on a supporting structure consisting of a stainless steel triangle so that both shapes formed the Star of David. The project, however, has not advanced past the inauguration at the very place in 1997 attended by the Czech and Israeli presidents at that time, Havel and Weizman, respectively. Following the year 2000, the artist continued to create with remarkable vitality. In 2009 he presented in the urban milieu of historical Litomy\u0161l a series of monumental objects in which he once again works with reflections in plates of perfectly polished stainless steel.","date":2009,"authors":""}],"artworks":[107839,107840,107841,107842,107843,107844,107845,107846,107847,107848,107849,107850,107851,107852,107853,107854,107855,107856,107857,107858,111093,111094,111095,111096,111097,111098,111099,111100,111101,111102,111103],"videos":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vesel\u00fd - 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\/ales-vesely\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vesel\u00fd - 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