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Beránek's oak wood works have an unmistakable authorial signature. His abstract and figurative sculptures, which in their character and contrasts of massive volumes, smoothly transitioning into convex swells and concave depressions, point to the radical
Baroque, also consciously claim the heritage of
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Jiří Beránek's subsequent work cannot simply be characterized as a linear sequence of time periods, as the sculptor strives primarily for the spiritual integrity of the work and is less interested in formal development. A work can be a wooden sculpture as well as an object in the landscape. They are
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at the same time, had only a limited influence on the local scene. Most artists remained faithful to the painting or sculpture, but experimented with disrupting their traditional form. As a typical feature of generational aesthetics, individual reflection on current psychological and social reality
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Maintaining the space of artistic freedom, preserving the continuity of Czech modern art and the plurality of opinions characteristic of the previous period was the most important feature of the entire generation of his contemporaries. They replaced their sceptical attitude towards the normalising
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regime tried to completely interrupt. Beránek's generation drew attention to the disintegration of the value system of society and attempted to form its own artistic order derived from personal ethical standards. The tendency to dematerialize art, which dominated
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An integral part of the message of his works is to point to the constant cycle of nature's transformations, the birth of life, death and decay. He uses fragments of the wood of centuries-old oaks or tree roots, deposited for thousands of years in a layer of peat
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as a reference to memory that transcends human life many times over. Their counterpart was a clean and minimalist display of twelve wooden spheres, representing both planets and apostles, on the top floor of the building.
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social atmosphere and the resulting personal distance with seriousness, introvertedness and an emphasis on the ethical mission of art. Their work can be considered a special manifestation of Czech cultural identity.
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Jiří Beránek came from a South
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Other works are assembled as spatial drawings from naturally curved branches that the sculptor has merely roughly worked and pinned together, leaned against or folded into a new context of meaning (
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In smaller gallery spaces, Jiří Beránek reacts sensitively to the environment and creates conceptual installations that usually mean a radical reconstruction of the entire space. With the project
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1970s. However, the existential essence of his work, which is a reflection of this bleak reality, also represented an effort to maintain a continuity with the dynamic art of the 1960s, which the
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in Petr Pavlík's studio, where the foundation of the future art group was formed. Until 1989 he participated in various private art activities, especially in the Hůla brothers' gallery in
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that address the central problem of the sculpture's interior space and the aesthetic arrangement of interrelationships. The individual elements at first loosely fill the given framework (
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He revealed a world of myths, but he always responded to the time in which he lived. Remembering the sculptor Jiří Beránek, interview with Karel
Oujezdský, Czech radio Vltava, 1.2.2021
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and during the 1990s he stayed twice in the United States and exhibited in
Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and the Netherlands. From 1993 he worked as a teacher at the
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period. In 1985 he married his second wife
Jolanta, with whom he has three children. He moved with her to a house with a garden in Koloděje, where much of his work was created.
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Sculptor Jiří Beránek belonged to a generation of artists who, as fresh graduates of art colleges, had to define themselves in their work during the oppression and subsequent "
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and organizers of unofficial art exhibitions
Marcela Pánková, Alena Potůčková and Marie Černá. Jiří Beránek participated in the first unofficial exhibitions in Prague in 1973 (
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and some were prematurely closed down. Jiří Beránek could only exhibit in small galleries outside the centre (Gong
Theatre, Gallery H, Gallery Opatov, Koloděje) during the
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The sculptor distinguishes the first romantic phase of his work, which focused on the perfect spatial harmony of volumes and biomorphic shapes, with obvious references to
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past of Prof. Vincenc
Makovský and was an inspiration for him in the early formative years. His familiarity with Czech and European modern art was evident in his early
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and created sculptures made of oak wood and installations made of peat or hay and straw. He had his first solo exhibition in 1979 at the Museum of
Homeland History in
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Just as all modern
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often manifested itself in the disintegration of the figure, linking Beránek's work with the allied painters Vladimír Novák and Petr Pavlík.
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1992 Not known from Where, art symposium Baroque and Today, Jesuit Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Litoměřice
165:. In 1968 he spent holidays travelling around[Italy. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1971 and considered entering the
1117:, 1988–1989, Not known from Where, 1991–1992). The monumental character of these works testifies to the depth of the experience of
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and his interest is not limited to sculptural objects, but to modelling the landscape itself. Beránek's early spatial assemblage
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1988 Coloured sculpture made of poles, in front of the church of St. Maurice in Hittfeld (Harburg district, Lower Saxony)
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Some sculptures are covered with polychrome, which unifies the surface and makes local colour accents stand out (
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projects. They are often abstract in nature, or express the artist's reflection on abstract concepts, such as
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and at the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň. He died on 26 January 2021 after a short and severe illness.
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Jiří Beránek, Tomáš Švéda: Triple House, text by Ivan Neumann, cat. 4 p., Emmaus Monastery Prague 1993/1994
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Jiří Beránek, text by Alena Potůčková, 64 p., Czech Museum of Fine Arts in Prague 1994, ISBN 80-7056-026-6
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1994 Jiří Beránek: The Beam in Your Eye (9th exhibition in the Big Theme series), Galerie Litera, Prague
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Colour drawings are an integral part of Beránek's work. These are not drawing studies for sculptures or
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2015 Jiří Beránek: The Intermediate Period, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora (GASK)
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1999 Jiří Beránek: Bending, Klatovy / Klenová Gallery, former military premises in Janovice nad Úhlavou
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and figures, which testify to his perfect absorption and individual transformation of the impulses of
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2017 Jiří Beránek: Like migratory birds, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region in Kutná Hora (GASK)
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projects and made contacts with the unofficial art scene. His marriage broke down at that time.
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Jiří Beránek: Early paintings, objects and sculptures, 1993, cat. 6 p., '60/'70 Gallery, Prague
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united by the need to uncover buried levels of consciousness, to return to ancient myths (
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from 1961 to 1965. After graduating from high school, he passed exams at the
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2006 Jiří Beránek: The Power of Silence, ČKD Dukla Industrial Hall, Prague
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Jiří Beránek, 1988, Prahl R, double sheet, Cultural Centre Opatov, Prague
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Jiří Beránek: Přítmí paměti / The Twilight of Memory, Gemma Gallery, 1998
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Jiří Beránek: Sculptures, 1979, cat. 4 p., Homeland Museum, Šumperk
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2000 Jiří Beránek: Drink for the Drowning, Litera Gallery, Prague
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1996 Jiří Beránek: Sculptures, Gallery MK, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm
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1990 Resurrection, La Défense, Paris, Emmaus Monastery, Prague
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2000 Jiří Beránek: From the suitcase, Gambit Gallery, Prague
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2013 Wooden cladding, main building of Gallery Golf Hostivař
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2006 Jiří Beránek: Small Sculpture, Magna Gallery, Ostrava
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2010 The Sacrifice Place, Budovatelů Square, Sokolov
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1929:(in Czech). University of West Bohemia
1908:(in Czech). University of West Bohemia
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272:
257:Karlovy Vary
249:Resurrection
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132:
115:Jiří Beránek
114:
113:
74:(2021-01-26)
26:Jiří Beránek
2178:2021 deaths
2173:1945 births
1463:Exhibitions
1080:red daphnia
826:The Calling
756:avant-garde
493:Germination
405:still lifes
359:still lifes
355:avant-garde
2167:Categories
2073:Catalogues
2048:Monographs
1998:2022-10-17
1933:2022-10-17
1912:2022-10-17
1890:2022-10-17
1672:2022-10-17
1620:References
1233:pilgrimage
1121:heritage.
1091:Noah's Ark
1087:Timeless I
786:, 1980s).
760:Ferry-boat
713:Litoměřice
694:La Défense
671:La Défense
561:The Corner
557:Watchtower
447:Ferry-boat
389:Lot's Wife
371:Surrealism
241:Regensburg
136:Luhačovice
50:1945-11-21
1119:Christian
844:, 1991).
842:Sacrifice
821:, 2002).
764:Sacrifice
746:Karolinum
541:Sacrifice
535:, 1980).
529:Rock City
417:Sanctuary
413:Courtyard
385:Crucified
334:carpenter
306:" of the
229:New Group
95:Education
58:Borkovice
1249:land art
1243:Drawings
1225:land art
1140:and the
1099:Koloděje
855:, 1974,
853:Corridor
849:land art
840:, 1988,
832:, 1990,
828:, 1988,
817:, 1997,
809:, 1995,
805:, 1991,
801:, 1990,
797:, 1988,
793:, 1987,
770:, 2001,
766:, 1989,
762:, 1972,
711:(1992),
692:(1990),
657:, 2001,
653:, 1968,
645:, 1994,
637:, 1998,
633:, 1996,
555:, 1996,
551:, 1988,
543:, 1991,
531:, 1979,
523:, 1980,
519:, 1980,
503:, 1975,
499:, 1973,
495:, 1972,
415:, 1985,
391:, 1973,
383:, 1972,
377:, 1968,
342:land art
292:Koloděje
253:New York
227:and the
183:land art
84:Koloděje
2043:Sources
1305:Landart
1111:Baroque
1036:Tilting
982:Tilting
696:, Paris
647:Cloning
639:Klenová
621:Cloning
533:Beehive
521:Beehive
511:, 1982
509:Library
485:baroque
464:(1980s)
202:Šumperk
179:Sobotín
171:Olomouc
1969:Srbice
1237:Srbice
1171:(2002)
1103:Gothic
1048:Prague
1014:(2003)
999:(1995)
984:(1993)
951:Prague
943:Mantis
928:(1998)
913:(1998)
898:(1998)
883:(1998)
819:Insect
815:Mantis
623:(1996)
608:(1994)
591:Corner
553:Refuge
545:Oracle
505:Plough
477:Plough
449:(1972)
401:Salome
397:Morána
363:Cubism
347:Castle
80:Prague
2122:Other
1257:Touch
1253:Smell
1138:1960s
959:Plzeň
768:Table
667:Paris
517:Chest
285:Plzeň
245:Paris
1468:Solo
803:Maze
772:Grid
742:Boat
525:Nook
497:Cube
409:Cube
369:and
298:Work
129:Life
69:Died
44:Born
1046:in
669:at
513:Bed
283:in
239:in
214:StB
169:in
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