{"id":121987,"date":"2024-07-10T23:05:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:devel.artlist.cz\/artist\/volrab-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:13:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:13:53","slug":"rudolf-volrab","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/artlist.cz\/en\/umelci\/rudolf-volrab\/","title":{"rendered":"Volr\u00e1b"},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-121987","artist","type-artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"nicknames":"","date_born":1933,"date_death":1969,"place_born":"Ko\u0161ice, Slovak Republic","lives":"","web":"","idatum":"","address":"","email":"","phone":"","biography":"1952-1961 \/2 years in military service\/ studied at School of Art, Architecture and Design ( V\u0160UP), Prague, Josef Kaplick\u00fd\u00b4s studio","groups":null,"membership":"","exhibitions_solo":"2010\r\nTopi\u010d\u016fv salon, Praha\r\n\r\n2002\r\nGalerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed, Roudnice nad Labem\r\n\r\n1985\r\n N\u00e1rodn\u00ed d\u016fm na Vinohradech, Praha\r\n\r\n1961\r\nDivadlo E. F. Buriana   (spole\u010dn\u011b s J. Hendrychem), Praha","exhibitions_group":"(selection)\r\n\r\n1993-94\r\nNov\u00e1 figurace \/putovn\u00ed v\u00fdstava\/, Litom\u011b\u0159ice, Pardubice, Brno, Opava, Jihlava\r\n\r\n1969\r\nArtchemo, Pardubice\r\nNov\u00e1 figurace, Praha\r\n\r\n1968\r\nDanuvius Bratislava\r\n\r\n1966\r\nJarn\u00ed v\u00fdstava, M\u00e1nes, Praha","realizations_other":"","collections":"","monographies":"2010 kat. v\u00fdstavy Topi\u010d\u016fv salon Praha \/J. Rous\/\r\n2002 kat. v\u00fdstavy Galerie modern\u00edho um\u011bn\u00ed Roudnice nad Labem \/M. Hlav\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1\/\r\n1997 M. Ne\u0161lehov\u00e1, Poselstv\u00ed jin\u00e9ho v\u00fdrazu, ARTetFAKT Praha\r\n1995 Nov\u00e1 encyklopedie \u010desk\u00e9ho v\u00fdtvarn\u00e9ho um\u011bn\u00ed, Academia Praha\r\n1985 kat. v\u00fdstavy v N\u00e1rodn\u00edm dom\u011b na Vinohradech \/M. P\u00e1nkov\u00e1\/\r\n1970 L. Nov\u00e1k, Nov\u00e1 figurace, Obelisk, Praha\r\n1969 V\u00fdtvarn\u00e1 pr\u00e1ce \u010d. 14-15, Nov\u00e1 figurace\r\n1968 R.V., V\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed \u010d.5, 6\r\n1967 R.V., V\u00fdtvarn\u00e9 um\u011bn\u00ed \u010d. 10, Z. Felix\r\n1967 R.V., Liter\u00e1rn\u00ed noviny,  29. 7.","articles":"","reviews":"","texts_unlisted":"","annotations":[{"text":"The pictures and objects of Rudolf Volr\u00e1b capture important features of Czech art of the sixties. With the gradual arrival of exhibition possibilities, which only lasted a few years and almost symbolically ended with Volr\u00e1b\u2019s death in 1969, the Czech exhibition space slowly opened up both to foreign exhibitions and exhibitions of Czech artists abroad, including their personal participation. Czech art of that time had the ambition of equalling and being included amongst the broad spectrum of world art, an ambition supported by critics such as Jind\u0159ich Chalupeck\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed Padrta, Franti\u0161ek \u0160mejkal and others, as well as offering Czech art the chance to draw on global trends.\r\n \r\nAfter completing his education in 1961 Volr\u00e1b\u2019s work opened up to the possibilities of Art Informel, a tendency deepened by his friendship with Z. Beran, J. Valenta and A. Tomal\u00edk. Even these connections served to make manifest Volr\u00e1b\u2019s distinctive and characteristic creative interest. The artist was attracted not only by the grating existential character of informel, but far more by its radically new visual possibilities. The picture is liberated from narrative and manifests itself mainly by means of the language of its resources \u2013 sediments of paint and interventions in them using incisions, for instance, release them and deepen the expressive possibilities of paint and its structure. Even in this abstract phase of creation Volr\u00e1b\u2019s lifelong theme begins to make an appearance, which was the figure, not so much for its story and meanings and symbols, but more as a figure thematising the pictorial surface, its composition,  erosion and fragmentation, which gradually leads to the disruption and opening of the pictorial surface. However, the figural visual structure retains a strong emotional attachment with the world, which deepens this structure by means of strong sensuousness, experience of the body, physicality as a network through which the artist appropriates the world. This physicality often has expressive erotic connotations.\r\n\r\nThese traits often see Volr\u00e1b\u2019s work assigned to new figuration, while his beginnings are associated with informel, creating a broad period framework and allowing for the conceptual display of the confrontation of artists for whom both lines determined his creative output. However, privileged theme of the figure took many different forms and often completely different starting points. Their confrontation at an exhibition of new figuration in Prague in 1969 allowed strong individuals and their different attitudes to the human figure to come to the fore as it used to be at the time of the existential works of K. Nepra\u0161, J. Balcar or otherwise in the case of J. Na\u010deradsk\u00fd, A. Ku\u010derov\u00e1 and A. \u0160imotov\u00e1 and others, or O. Slav\u00edk, whose work was characterised by the same sensuousness and physicality as in the case of Volr\u00e1b. \r\n\r\nThe overriding trait of Volr\u00e1b\u2019s work remains its spontaneous analytic quality, which led him to experiment with the surface of the picture through disturbance, decomposition and fragmentation. Around 1967 he created pictures or paintings (more precisely work on paper which alternates between painterly procedures in a different medium) which comprise various surfaces and forms creating an irregular formation, sometimes supplemented by other materials, such as in the picture Four, painted in 1969, in which a developed shape in four metamorphoses is finally transferred into a plastic sculpture. A similar procedure is underway with the figure dismantled into fragments, which is recomposed into new structural relations. At the same time the picture begins to open into space, it is constructed by means of coloured layers of various shapes which transform the painting basically into an object. However, it remains a painting which develops from the surface and simply opens up space by means of its levels. \r\n\r\nHowever, another important period pictures which connected Czech art to global tendencies needs to be mentioned. Volr\u00e1b\u2019s work is assigned the label new figuration, but as in the case of Ji\u0159\u00ed Balcar in terms of its expressiveness and discourse it is close to pop art. It is clear in the artistic procedure which links fragments or parts of the body with their whole, the alternation of which is reminiscent of a printed surface. Volr\u00e1b\u2019s method of working with the basic tones of colour and in using mainly direct colours.\r\n\r\nIn 1968 and 1969 the Artchemo symposium was held in Pardubice, which was focussed on the utilisation of artificial substances in art. Volr\u00e1b participated in the form of objects which were based on his previous gradual opening of the surface of the picture into space. In layered and overlapping transparent plastic silhouettes the picture was transformed into a spatial structure, and object. Whether this method indicated another path via object to sculpture we cannot understandably say. However, it is possible that this was the influence of Volr\u00e1b\u2019s beginnings in the glass studio in Kamenick\u00fd \u0160enov, and there is a connection with the focus of the Josef Kaplick\u00fd studio at Prague\u2019s Museum of Decorative Arts on glass production. Volr\u00e1b\u2019s fellow students here included V. Kopeck\u00fd, S. Libensk\u00fd and D. Vachtov\u00e1. Rudolf Volr\u00e1b was an initiating personality who exceeded the boundaries between individual creative spheres and created his own theme through their intersection of their procedures. 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