Aleš Veselý
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Aleš Veselý is a Czech sculptor
. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
. At the end of the 1950, he was part of the art movement known as the Czech Abstraction. More recently, he has worked on monumental sculptures, often connected with a specific landscape. He sculpts in welded metal, exploring the tension of the masses and the activity of the elementary forces contained in the material.
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
. From 1952 to 1958, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague was founded in 1799 and is the Czech Republic's oldest art college. The school offers twelve Master's degree programs and one Doctoral program.-History:...
. At the end of the 1950, he was part of the art movement known as the Czech Abstraction. More recently, he has worked on monumental sculptures, often connected with a specific landscape. He sculpts in welded metal, exploring the tension of the masses and the activity of the elementary forces contained in the material.
Grants
- 1995: Pollock-Krasner FoundationPollock-Krasner FoundationThe Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressionist painter and the widow of fellow painter Jackson...
Grant, Chicago, Illinois - 1993: Arts Link Fellowship at The Fabric Workshop and MuseumThe Fabric Workshop and MuseumThe Fabric Workshop and Museum, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is a non-profit arts organization devoted to creating new work in new materials and new media in collaboration with emerging, nationally, and internationally recognized artists....
, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,... - 1986: International Sculpture CenterInternational Sculpture CenterThe International Sculpture Center is a 5013 nonprofit organization founded in 1960. It is located on the old New Jersey Fairground in Hamilton, New Jersey...
Fellowship, Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
Awards
- 1994 The Chicago Prize, John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
- 1969 The Mathias Braun Award for the sculpture Kaddish at the Sculpture and City exhibition, LiberecLiberecLiberec is a city in the Czech Republic. Located on the Lusatian Neisse and surrounded by the Jizera Mountains and Ještěd-Kozákov Ridge, it is the fifth-largest city in the Czech Republic....
- 1965 Critics Award for the sculpture Chair Usurper, 4eme Biennale de ParisBiennale de Paris-History:The 'Biennale de Paris' was launched by Raymond Cogniat in 1959 and set up by André Malraux as he was Minister of Culture to present an overview of young creativity worldwide and to create a place of experiences and meetings.-Presentation:...
Public Space Sculptures
- 1998-2001 Chamber of Light, Europos ParkasEuropos ParkasEuropos Parkas is a 50-hectare open-air museum located 17 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. The museum gives an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent and presents Lithuanian and international modern art.-Collection:The museum exhibits more than 90 works from 27...
, VilniusVilniusVilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
, iron, steel and boulders, 777 x 430 x 430 cm - 1999 Messenger, Sculpture Park, Wijk aan ZeeWijk aan ZeeWijk aan Zee is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The prestigious Tata Steel chess tournament formerly Corus chess tournament and before that called Hoogovens tournament takes place there every year.Due...
, steel and boulders, 530 x 376 x 609 cm - 1996 Memento, sculpture from 1968 permanently located in VenrayVenrayVenray is a municipality and a town in Limburg, Netherlands, 115 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam. Venray has about 43,000 inhabitants.- Population centres :...
, stainless steel, h. 450 cm - 1995 Magen David, Jewish Memorial in TerezinTerezínTerezín is the name of a former military fortress and adjacent walled garrison town in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.-Early history:...
, stainless steel, bronzed railway tracks, boulders, h. 560 cm - 1994 Doublebench, Faret Tachikawa, TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, stainless steel, diorite, 240 x 240 x 70 cm - 1988 Testimony, sculpture from 1968, permanently located in the Olympic Park, SeoulOlympic Park, SeoulThe Seoul Olympic Park, shortened to Olpark, is an Olympic Park built to host the 1988 Summer Olympics. Olympic Park is located in Songpa-gu, Bangi-dong.- Competition facilities :*Olympic Velodrome, Seoul*Olympic Fencing Gymnasium...
, stainless steel, h. 280 cm - 1980 That One, welded sculpture in stainless steel in front of the Ed. Spranger School, HammHammHamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of December 2003 its population was 180,849. The city is situated between the A1 motorway and A2 motorway...
, h. 12 m - 1979 Iron Report, town park, BochumBochumBochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...
, complex of three iron sculptures, I. 750 x 900 x 220 cm, II. 330 x 360 x 180 cm, III. 280 x 220 x 110 cm) - 1973 Trumpet from Jericho, Nove Sedlo nearby Karlovy VaryKarlovy VaryKarlovy Vary is a spa city situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohře and Teplá, approximately west of Prague . It is named after King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded the city in 1370...
, stainless steel, 210 x 390 x 230 cm - 1967-1968 Kaddish, (originally in Ostrava) since 1971 located in the outdoor studio of the artist, h. 710 cm
- 1963 Indetermination of Circle and Straight Line, RomaRoma- Places :Italy* Rome, the capital of Italy, is called Roma in Italian and some other languages* Roma Tre University, a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992...
, CSA, via Bissolati (was destroyed by the permission of the Czech Embassy in 1994)
Literature
- Michal Schonberg, Walk Through That Gate! Conversations with Aleš Veselý, Torst: Prague, 2007, ISBN 80-7215-263-7