Stanislav Diviš

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*1953, Kutná hora, Czech Republic

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Stanislav Diviš was born on November 20, 1953 in Kutná Hora and became interested in fine arts through the work of František Kupka. It is also not without interest that at the primary school in Telčice he received a threesome from art education. After his apprenticeship as an electrician and a high school diploma at a secondary school in Kutná Hora, he changed a number of mostly manual jobs between 1975 and 1982, and in the meantime he tried several times to apply to an art college. In 1982, he was finally accepted to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the field of restoration. In 1983 and 1984, he organized the first events, which were a harbinger of later fundamental confrontations. These were St. Nicholas parties organized on the grounds of the Academy of Fine Arts, for which the decoration was made by students from all studios. From 1984 to 1987, together with Jiří David, he organized a total of six of these illegal and semi-illegal Confrontations, which were the only opportunities for the students of that time to freely exhibit their works. In 1985, under the pretext of transfer to the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, he was forced to complete his studies, and since 1987 he has been exhibiting regularly at all important domestic and foreign exhibitions of contemporary art. In the same year, the Tvrdohlaví art group was founded, with which they had their first joint exhibition in December of the same year. Between 1996 and 1997 he worked as an assistant to Jiří David in his studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and from 2003 as the head of the painting studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he left in 2010.


Since the mid-1980s, Stanislav Diviš's canvases have sometimes moved more, sometimes less essentially on the edge of abstraction, but they almost always still retain the remnants of objectivity by means of wildcards. Semiotics, especially in Diviš's and David's paintings, became a symbol of Czech postmodernism at this time, and specifically Diviš's paintings always practice our imagination and the telling power of characters. Other basic elements of his work are almost exclusively works in extensive cycles, which are characterized by a concentrated formal and expressive unity and a constant reinterpretation of his own older works or other foreign models.


Text - Jakub Král / artlist.cz

EDUCATION:

  • 2003 - 2010 head teacher of the painting studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
  • 1994 - 1996 Assistant Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
  • 1990 - Co-founder of "MXM Gallery"
  • 1987 - Establishment of the art group "Tvrdohlaví"
  • 1982 - 1985 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
  • Author of the artistic directions "Scientific Realism" and "Dyslexic Realism"

SEPARATE EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2020 Stanislav Divis, GASK, CZ
  • 2019 Stanislav Diviš, Gallery of Space 228, Liberec, CZ
  • 2018 Empty Space / Color Geometry, Gallery 1st Floor, Prague, CZ
  • 2014 From new cycles, Gallery of Modern Art, Roudnice nad Labem, CZ
  • 2012 Stanislav Diviš: Landscapes of Passion, 1st Floor Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2012 Jiří David, Stanislav Diviš,… probatum est, Miroslav Kubík Gallery, Litomyšl, CZ
  • 2011 Shards, remnants, touches, Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové, CZ
  • 2010 Stanislav Divis, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 2009 Lost Worlds, Pilsen City Gallery, Pilsen, CZ
  • 2006 Flowers from Paradise, Česká pojišťovna Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2005 Retrospective, East Bohemian Gallery Pardubice, Pardubice, CZ
  • 2005 Retrospective, U Bílého jednorožce Gallery, Klatovy, CZ
  • 2004 Two Worlds, Flowers of Paradise, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
  • 2003 Two Worlds, Galerie ad astra, Kuřim, CZ
  • 2001 Two Worlds, Paintings, Felix Jenewein Gallery of Kutná Hora, CZ
  • 2000 Cathedral, V Kapli Gallery, Bruntál, CZ
  • 1998 Diviš Vidíš…, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1997 Stanislav Diviš, Sokolská 26 Gallery, Ostrava, CZ
  • 1996 Remains, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1995 Remains, Caesar Gallery, Olomouc, CZ
  • 1995 Scores and Remains, Jewish Cemetery, Mortuary, Třebíč, CZ
  • 1995 Stanislav Diviš, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1993 Paintings 1985 - 1992, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1993 Stanislav Diviš, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1991 Stanislav Diviš, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1988 First World Exhibition of Scientific Realism, Opatov Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1988 Paintings, Youth Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 1988 Paintings, Blatiny Cultural Center, Prague, CZ

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2017 Exhibition of paintings and drawings by the brothers Jiří and Jaroslav Macků, Municipal Museum, Rýmařov
  • 2012 Islands of Resistance, Between First and Second Modernity, National Gallery in Prague, Prague, CZ
  • 2011 PBBK80, NTK Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2010 1984 - 1995, Czech painting of the generation of the 80s, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Cz
  • 2009 After the Velvet: Contemporary Czech Art with Overlaps into the Past, Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, Prague, CZ
  • 2008 Stubborn after 20 years, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, CZ
  • 2007 Stubborn after 20 years, Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2007 Kacíř & spol .: golden city, Jiří Švestka Gallery, Prague, Cz
  • 2006 What's going on? Additions to the East Bohemian Gallery from 1993-2006, Východočeská
  • 2006 gallery in Pardubice, Pardubice, CZ
  • 2006 Kacíř & spol .: Installations on the axis Brno Berlin, House of Arts of the City of Brno, Brno, CZ
  • 2006 + - 50: Generation of the 80's from the collections of the Klatovy Gallery / Klenová, U Bílého jednorožce Gallery, Klatovy, CZ
  • 2005 Second Touch, House of Arts of the City of Brno, Brno, CZ
  • 2005 New additions to the collections of the Felix Jenewein Gallery of the town of Kutná Hora from
  • 1996-2004, Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
  • 2003 Tvrdohlaví Art Group, František Drtikol Gallery, Příbram, CZ
  • 2003 281 m2, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2003 Tvrdohlaví V., Tvrdohlaví Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2002 On paper, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2001 The First and the Last, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 2000 Contemporary Past: Czech Postmodern Modernism 1960-
  • 2000, Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Sázavou, Hluboká nad Vltavou, CZ
  • 1999 4th exhibition of the art group Tvrdohlaví, Wallenstein Riding School, Prague, CZ
  • 1998 So Far, So Close, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1997 Between tradition and experiment. Work on paper and with paper in Czech fine art 1939-1989, Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc, CZ
  • 1996 Czech Abstract, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1996 Mrkačka, MXM Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1995 Old Testament Motifs in Czech Art of the Twentieth Century, Karlovy Vary Art Gallery, Karlovy Vary, CZ
  • 1995 Old Testament Motifs in Czech Art of the Twentieth Century, Gallery of Modern Art in Roudnice nad Labem, Roudnice nad Labem, CZ
  • 1995 Test Run, Mánes, Prague, CZ
  • 1993 Record of the most diverse factors…, Czech painting of the second half of the 20th century from the collections of state galleries, Prague Castle Riding School, Prague, CZ
  • 1991 3rd exhibition of the Tvrdohlaví Art Group, Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, Prague, CZ
  • 1990 Jiří David, Stanislav Diviš, Vladimír Kokolia, Exhibition Hall Painted House, Třebíč, CZ
  • 1990 Tribute to the artists Jindřich Chalupecký, Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, Prague, CZ
  • 1989 2nd exhibition of the Tvrdohlaví Art Group, Exhibition Hall of the Center of Folk and Art Production, Prague, CZ
  • 1989 Tvrdohlaví, Vilém Wünsche Exhibition Hall, Havířov, CZ
  • 1989 Young Jan Bauch, Václav Špála Gallery, Prague, CZ
  • 1989 Czech painting today, gallery of the city of Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, D
  • 1987 Tvrdohlaví, People's House, Prague, CZ
  • 1987 Confrontation VI, Špitálská street, Prague, CZ
  • 1986 Confrontation V, Farm of Milan Perič, Svárov, CZ
  • 1986 Young Prague Artists, Na bidýlku Gallery, Brno, CZ
  • 1986 Confrontation IV, Mozartova 7, Prague, CZ
  • 1985 Confrontation III, Magdalena Rajnišová House, Kladno, CZ
  • 1984 Confrontation II, Krymská 21, Prague, CZ
  • 1984 Confrontation I, Jiří David Studio, Prague, CZ

REPRESENTATION IN COLLECTIONS:

  • National Gallery Prague;
  • Galerie hl.m. Prague;
  • Benedikt Rejt Louny Gallery;
  • East Bohemian Gallery Pardubice;
  • Gallery of Modern Art Hradec Králové;
  • Gallery Klatovy / Klenová;
  • Gallery of Design and Art Benešov;
  • Moravian Gallery Dolný Kubín;
  • Olomouc Museum of Art;
  • Felix Jenewein Gallery Kutná Hora;
  • In the private collections of Czech and foreign collectors / Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Bratislava, Bern, Zurich, Friborg, Vienna, Graz, Munich, Frankfurt, Madrid, New York, Tokyo /;
  • In Czech and foreign institutions / Union Bank of Switzerland, Komerční banka