Milan Dobeš. A celebration of colour, light and movement
The Olomouc Museum of Art will offer a cross-sectional exhibition of Milan Dobes (1929), a Slovak painter, graphic artist, creator of installations and objects.
Přerov-born Milan Dobeš, who lived most of his ninety-five years in Slovakia, began with impressionist landscape paintings and urban exteriors of Bratislava created during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1951-1956) and continued with cubist paintings of his blue period. Other works on display – geometric drawings and prints in which the basic element is a circle and its segments – are joined by objects and installations in which he begins to work with light and gradually takes on a kinetic and constructivist characte
Dobeš theoretically supported his work with two manifestos. In 1961 he published On Light and Movement, as he used light as an essential part of his work when creating objects. His second artistic manifesto in 1988 was entitled “Dynamic Constructivism”. Typical of the artist’s work is the use of technicist elements, which is why it is also said that he incorporated a fourth dimension – movement – into his optic-kinetic objects.
In addition to the objects and graphic works from Dobeš’s generous gift to the MUO collection, the exhibition will include drawings, paintings, sculptures, optical prints, reliefs, reflective collages, kinetic objects, collages… Works that interpret both light and movement in an artistically specific way. In the context of the artist’s work, the exhibition will also present a selection of works by important world constructivists who exhibited at the Milan Dobes Museum in Bratislava.
Milan Dobeš is one of the key authors of the SEFO – Central European Forum Olomouc project and the cross-sectional exhibition of the work of this internationally acclaimed artist, a pioneer of “dynamic constructivism”, is a tribute to the lifelong work of the artist, who will celebrate his twenty-sixth birthday in July.
The exhibition was created in collaboration with Ivan Jančár, Director Emeritus of the Bratislava City Gallery, member of the international association of art theorists AICA, winner of the Martin Benka Award and winner of the Star of Italy Award, which was awarded to him by the Italian President. Ivan Jančár is a long-time curator and author of many exhibition projects in Slovakia and abroad, including exhibitions of Milan Dobes, and is also the author of two monographs.
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