Jan Ságl

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* 1942 HUMPOLEC, CZECH REPUBLIC

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Jan Ságl was born in Humpolec in 1942. He never studied photography, but in the 1960s he began working as a permanent photographer for the magazines Výtvarná práce and Umění umění. In 1964 he married the artist Zorka Ságlová. Three years later, together with Ivan Jirous, they discovered The Primitives Group and later The Plastic People of the Universe, with whom Ságl collaborated for many years on the artistic rendering of their concerts and at the same time became a pictorial chronicler of their performances and private life, as well as his work. women Zorky. After 1968, Jan Ságl had to retire and started working for Pressfoto. Thanks to that, they will get acquainted with color photography. At the same time, however, he also implements the black-and-white cycles House Inspection and Swallows. He is also increasingly engaged in capturing the landscape, in which he is mainly interested in traces of human activity. In the mid-1980s, he uses Polachrom's technique to capture the familiar surroundings of the Ságlov weekend cottage in Křížov pod Blaníkem. This creates another unique cycle. Since 1982, he has been able to travel abroad again, especially to Paris and Brittany. From these photographs, the book What about Paris? How was she? and the cycle of the Gallery and the Cathedral, which Jan Ságl has been developing to this day, begins. Immediately after 1989, Jan Ságl began working intensively on contracts for world magazines such as National Geographic, Geo, Smithsonian, Gault Millau, Zeit Magazine and The New York Times. However, the interruption of this work means the year 2003, when Ságl's wife Zorka dies. Since then, Jan Ságl has devoted himself mainly to free creation, in which he uses exclusively the possibilities of digital photography. He also systematically works on cycles of photographs dedicated to the landscape with significant human intervention (called the found land-art).

SEPARATE EXHIBITIONS:

2020 Asparagus hops, Gallery 1st floor, Prague
2019 Powerstation of Art, Shanghai
2019 Structure, Herzogskasten Abensberg
2016 Paintings from the Underground, Films 1971-1974, AMU Gallery, Prague
2014 Landscapes, Municipal Gallery Středokluky 10, Leica Gallery Prague
2013 Dance on Double Ice, Benedikt Rejt Gallery in Louny
2012 Landscape, Josef Siblík Museum, Blatná
2010 Zorka Ságlová - Jan Ságl: Landscape, Topičův salon, Prague
2009 Variations and Parallels, 29th Zentiva Salon, Zentiva Office Building, Prague
2009 Luminiscence Photography, Kotelna Karlin Gallery, Prague - Nostress Gallery, Prague
2008 Starénové, National Monuments Institute, Bítov State Castle
2008 Landscapes, Ars Pragensis, Municipal Gallery Beseda, Prague
2007 Starénové, Zlatá husa Gallery, Prague
2007 Starénové, House of Arts of the City of Brno
2005 Together, Vernon Gallery, Prague
2004 Zorka Ságlová and Jan Ságl, Municipal Gallery Beseda, Prague
2001 Art cult, Czech center, Vienna
2001 "So Paris", Chamber of Deputies, Prague
2000 Art Cult, Gallery in the Chapel, Bruntál
2000 Der Blick von Aussen, Städtische Galerie, Leerer Beutel, (s Inge Morath), 2000 Regensburg
1997 Transformations of Prague, Chamber Gallery of the House of Photography of Josef Sudek, Prague
1998 Prague in the trade of its architecture, Czech Center, Berlin
1998 Prague in the middle of its architecture, Gallery of Modern Times, Dresden
1992 Landscape, galleries and cathedrals, Prague House of Photography, Prague
1992 House of Arts of the City of Brno
1990 Coupole Gallery (with Zorka Ságlová), Neu-Isenburg
1987 Colorful World (with Jan Saudek and Miro Švolík), Mariánské Lázně
1987 Monument of National Literature (with Otakar Jiránek), Prague
1987 Junior Club in Chmelnice (with Jaroslav Kořán), Prague
1987 Karel Čapek Bookstore, Prague
1985 ÚKDŽ, Prague
1981 Schröder-Saal des CVJM, Hamburg
1976 Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague
1976 Gallery in the Tower (with Pavel Baňka and Alexander Janovský), Mělník
1969 Václav Špála Gallery (with Jiří Kolář, Bělá Kolářová and Zorka Ságlová), Prague

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2019 Theater of the Revolution, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague
2018 Underground Improvisation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2018 Paris beautiful and inspiring, Gallery of Modern Art Hradec Králové
2018 Fateful Moments of Czechoslovakia, Old Town Hall, Prague
2017 CS concept of the 70s, Fait Gallery, Brno
2016 Notes from the Underground, Muzeum sztuki, Lodz
2014 Vivat musica, National Gallery in Prague, Trade Fair Palace, Prague
2012 On mushrooms / for John Cage, Bludný kámen, Opava
2009 Traces of Fire, Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, House of Arts, Ostrava
2009 Czech photographs of the 20th century, art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
2008 The Magic of Czech Photography, Museum, Bruntál
2008 New Urbanism, Seine Gallery 51, Paris
2008 The third side of the wall, Moravian Gallery in Brno
2005 Czech Photography of the 20th Century, Museum of Applied Arts in Prague - Gallery of the Capital City of Prague
2004 Landscape in Czech Art of the 17th - 20th Century, National Gallery in Prague, Kinský Palace, Prague
2003 Reality Check, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague
2003 The source of Czech culture. Art inspired by beer, Mánes, Prague
2002 Divočina, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová
2002 Classic Today, Martin Gropius - Bau, Berlin
2001 Experimental Landscape, North Bohemian Museum in Liberec
2001 The Face of Our Country, Prague Castle, Prague
2000 Transformations of Prague, Old Town Hall, Prague
2000 Prague in the Wandelion, Czech Center, Vienna
1999 My 1948-1989, Moravian Gallery in Brno
1998 Personalities of Contemporary Photography in Bohemia, Benešov Museum of Art near Prague
1997 Week - Three Years of Objectivity, Ambit Gallery, Prague
1997Atelier Maxera, Alberndorf, Austria
1997 Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
1996 Czech Press Photo, Ambit Gallery, Prague
1996 Atelier Maxera, Alberndorf, Austria
1995 Czech Press Photo, Ambit Gallery, Prague
1994 Landscape, New Hall, Prague
1990 Zeitgenössische Tschechoslowakische Fotografie, Museum Ludwig, Köln
1989 Ways of Czechoslovak Photography, GHMP, House at the Stone Bell, Prague
1989 Czechoslovak photography 1945-1989, National Gallery, Kinský Palace, Prague
1989 Contemporary Applied Photography, Gallery D, Prague
1989 Czechoslovak November 1989, Prague and seven other cities in Europe
1988 Landscape and Landscape, Fotochema, Prague
1988 Landscape, Gallery in Újezd, Prague
1988 Moment, Bratislava; Zdar nad Sazavou
1987 Moment, Moravian Gallery, Brno; AJG ceramics collection, Bechyně; Gallery 4, Cheb
1987 Interkamera, Prague
1986 50 years modern color photography 1936-1986, Photokina, Cologne
1986 Selection 3, Photokina, Cologne
1986 Body in Czechoslovak Photography 1900-1986, Museum of the Kroměříž Region, Kroměříž
1986 13th FIAP Colorprint Bienial, Andorra
1985 Gallery D, Prague
1985 27 Contemporary Czechoslovakian Photographers, The Photographers Gallery, London
1985 Doi Photoplaza, Tokyo
1985 National Gallery, Beijing
1984 Czech Fine Art Photography, Gallery D, Prague
1984 Foma Gallery, Prague
1984 The Aspects of Czech Photography, Thackrey and Robertson Gallery, San Francisco
1983 RIP Arles
1982 Current photography, Moravian Gallery in Brno
1981 Gallery in Újezd, Prague
1980 Centrum Gallery, Prague
1979 Interior photography, Kniha Vodičkova ul., Prague
1972 8th Paris Biennale
1970 Youth Exhibition, Prague
1965 Club SČSVU Mánes

REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS:

Moravian Gallery in Brno
National Library, Paris
The Polaroid Collection, Lausanne
German Photographic Society
Museum of Applied Arts in Prague
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of the city of Regensburg
Golden Goose Gallery, Prague
Museum of Art and Design, Benešov u Prahy
Benedikt Rejt Gallery in Louny
National Gallery of Canada
Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
Die Kunstsammlung der Erste Group und ERSTE Stiftung, Wien