{"id":121875,"date":"2024-07-10T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:devel.artlist.cz\/artist\/svoboda-4\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:13:57","slug":"jan-svoboda","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/jan-svoboda\/","title":{"rendered":"Svoboda"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-121875","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry","keyword-malba","keyword-painting"],"acf":{"nicknames":"","date_born":1957,"date_death":0,"place_born":"Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto na Morav\u011b","lives":"Rad\u0148ovice in Morava","web":"www.malirsvoboda.cz","idatum":"","address":"","email":"svoboda@malirsvoboda.cz","phone":"","biography":"<p>Mal\u00ed\u0159 a socha\u0159 - vystudoval Stavebn\u00ed fakultu na VUT Brno. Neabsolvoval \u017e\u00e1dnou v\u00fdtvarnou \u0161kolu. Do 90. let minul\u00e9ho stolet\u00ed \u017eil v Brn\u011b, kde pracoval jako stavebn\u00ed projektant, od roku 1991 tvo\u0159\u00ed na rodinn\u00e9m statku v Rad\u0148ovic\u00edch. Vedle malby se zab\u00fdv\u00e1 i d\u0159ev\u011bn\u00fdmi sochami, tvorbou origin\u00e1ln\u00edho n\u00e1bytku a n\u00e1st\u011bnn\u00fdmi malbami. V roce 2002 ilustroval knihu M\u00fdty Lakot\u016f v nakladatelstv\u00ed Argo Praha.<\/p>","groups":null,"membership":"","exhibitions_solo":"(selection)\r\n\r\n2014\r\n\u201eTrocha geometrie\u201c, Divadlo Bolka Pol\u00edvky, Brno\r\nHor\u00e1ck\u00e9 muzeum, Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto na Morav\u011b\r\n\r\n2013\r\nGalerie N7, Prost\u011bjov\r\nHor\u00e1ck\u00e1 galerie (s J. \u0160treitem), Nov\u00e9 M\u011bsto na Morav\u011b\r\nGalerie Fox, Praha\r\nGalerie Art, Chrudim\r\nGalerie Lang\u016fv d\u016fm, Fr\u00fddek-M\u00edstek\r\nStodoln\u00ed galerie (s J. 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He is a painter and sculptor who studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Brno University of Technology but did not attend art school. Since 1983 he has organised more than 120 exhibitions devoted to abstract landscape paintings deploying geometric symbols and images. Up until the 1990s he worked in Brno as a building designer, and since 1991 he has worked at his farmhouse in Rad\u0148ovice in the Vyso\u010dina region. This has earned him renown as the \u201cpainter from Rad\u0148ovice\u201d. As well as painting he also makes wooden sculptures and designer furniture.\r\nOver recent years Svoboda has exhibited several times with the photographer Jind\u0159ich \u0160treit, who has long been recording the life of the ironworks in V\u00edtkovice. \u0160treit discovered many interesting details in the machines, floors, walls, ceilings and the scrap iron of the old ironworks. He photographed these details and showed them Svoboda, who noticed how the photographer\u2019s industrial still lifes resembled his own oil paintings, with their simple compositions, muted colours schemes and geometric symbols and graphic elements. The two created a connected series of works that might be described as \u201cthinking in images\u201d. The philosopher Miroslav Pet\u0159\u00ed\u010dek, in a study of the same title, writes: \u201cSomeone stands in the landscape, looks around, but then suddenly stops looking because their gaze is fixed.\u201d Both \u0160treit and Svoboda stare at the details and typical features of their subject matter&nbsp; in this way and shift the value of its information to the level of pure imagery.\r\nFans of Svoboda\u2019s paintings often draw links with the Czech painter V\u00e1clav Bo\u0161t\u00edk, though the conceptual approach of the two artists differs considerably. Whereas Bo\u0161t\u00edk sought the principles lying behind the order, structure and mystery of the cosmos, Svoboda\u2019s paintings are rooted in the specific environment where he lives and from which he abstracts the morphological core. His means of expression include a basic graphic element in which images and symbols are not granted any specific meaning. He favours the simplicity of intuitive expression, and his circles, lines, squares, points and curves are not overburdened with logos. With its monochrome background, often whitish, the muted colour scheme of which was once called by one of his children \u201cSvoboda\u2019s gunk\u201d, there is often almost nothing to be seen in his work, at most simply a line, a smudge, a shadow, the hint of a circle or square or other geometrical element. Nevertheless, the titles of his paintings correspond to his experiences in nature: <i>St\u00edn listu \/ Shadow of a Leaf<\/i>, <i>T\u0159i \u010d\u00e1sti hv\u011bzdy \/ Three Parts of a Star<\/i>, <i>Lesnat\u00e1 krajina \/ Forest Landscape<\/i>, <i>Tmav\u00e1 krajina \/ Dark Landscape<\/i>, <i>Ostroh \/ Promontory<\/i>, etc. From the combination of purely visual form and title we perceive the depth of the upland region and see how landscape can be meditative. Svoboda essentially creates oil paintings. However, there are fleeting moments of a different mood with traces not only of brush and palette knife but charcoal, hand, sponge, clothe, etc., and so the surface of a paintings sometimes possesses an earthy, rough texture. Indeed, the artist himself acknowledges this layered effect by covering the surface with overlay or pasty strips of different thicknesses. This then permits the subtle abstract symbols of circles, ovals, crosses and squares, optically often covering the entire semantic field of the image, to express intuition in the search for something fundamental in the world.\r\nAt his last exhibition in Prague, Svoboda\u2019s paintings were confronted with the work of the German group Abstrakt Real, which deals with the cyclical nature of natural processes in nature. This group\u2019s work is also based on a conceptual shift of experiences in nature to the expression of a certain mode of seeing by means of images that unconsciously touch upon the archetypes of our perception. A search is plainly involved for new possibilities of articulating a visual language.","date":2014,"authors":[1859]}],"artworks":[113165,113166,113167,113168,113169,113170,113171,113172,113173,113174,113175,113176,113177,113178,113179,113180,113181,113182,113183,113184,113185,113186,113187,113188,113189],"videos":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Svoboda - 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\/jan-svoboda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Svoboda - Artlist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/jan-svoboda\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Artlist\" 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