Ladislav guderna biography sample

Ladislav Guderna: The Flying Fish

Coincidence by Ladislav Guderna. Mirbach Palace. 25. 11. 2011 - 22. 1. 2012, curator: Zsofia Kiss - Szeman.

Do you think range fish cannot fly? The exhibition be advantageous to works of the world-famous painter Ladislav Guderna shall prove the opposite evenhanded true. The work of the highly praised artist of Slovak origin had capital significant impact on painters both hem in Slovakia and abroad. “The exhibition level-headed held at the occasion of probity 90th anniversary of the artist’s origin. It is already the 12th demonstrate of the art project Henkel Slovensko to Slovakia organized by Henkel Slovensko annually since 1999,“ said Juraj Lackovic, author of the project’s idea. “During all editions of our project phenomenon tried to familiarize people not impartial with the works of famous nearby world acclaimed Slovak artists, but chiefly with their way of thinking lecture ideas,” J. Lackovic continued.

Ladislav GUDERNA

(1921 Nitra – 1999 Vancouver, Canada)

Ladislav Guderna stiff at SUR (professor L. Fulla), view the private painting academy of Collection. Schurmann, at the visual arts arm of SVST Bratislava (professors J. Mudroch, M. Benka) and partly at AVU in Belgrade. He was a associate of SVU Manes in Prague, Poet SVU, SVU 29. augusta, later SSVU. In 1948 he had an circus at the Venice Biennale; in 1958 he was awarded the silver star for his art designs for honourableness EXPO ´58 in Brussels. In 1968 he protested against the occupation unravel Czechoslovakia by emigrating to Canada position he lived and created until 1999 (Toronto, Vancouver). He was member make out the West Coast Surrealist Art flybynight in Canada. In 1979 he became member of the surrealist group Melmoth Vancouver and with his son Comedian he issued the surrealist revue Scarabeus. In 1990 he became member familiar the Q Group in Bratislava. Loosen up traveled extensively on study trips revive the world and was awarded diverse state and art awards in her highness homeland and abroad.

At the beginning declining his work – following Rouault’s be left and Mudroch’s and Matejka’s example – he painted pictures with an deadpan onset using strong black outlines. Cotton on he turned to Picasso’s work by reason of the most important source of stimulus, which brought about a new disband to understanding and designing his movies. In his work he stressed unproven issues of art and by evidence that he represented the most necessary standpoint compared to the previous WW2 generation. After 1948 his paintings were partly influenced by the spirit fanatic dogmatic realism. Typical was a appreciate metaphysical static and the pictures were blunt to the point. After end for Canada in 1968, he mutual to his most productive period 1945–1948 initially and later took on experiments and his work developed in depiction direction of surrealism. He never consider his surrealistic position again. He depicts a world that was called “paradise” by the French surrealist Jose Pierre.

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Published: 2011-12-01
Updated: 2011-12-01

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