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Vladimír Boudník

March 17 , 1924 in Prague - December 5 , 1968 in Prague

was a key personality in Czech post-war art, manifester of an "explosionism" movement. Vladimír Boudník (17 de março, 1924 em Praga - 5 de dezembro, 1968 em Praga) foi uma personalidade fundamental na pós Checa-arte da guerra, manifestador explosionism de um "movimento". He is best known for his active and structural graphic art, but also created mostly unknown, until recently, photographic and monotype works. Ele é mais conhecido pela sua arte gráfica ativa e estrutural, mas também criou a maioria desconhecida, até recentemente, obras fotográficas e monotipia.

During World War II Boudník was sent to forced labor in Germany and this experience resulted in lifelong trauma.

After the war he studied graphics in an art school. For a short time he worked in advertisement, then picked a job in ironworks in Kladno (where he met Bohumil Hrabal ).

Since 1952 Boudník stayed as a worker in ČKD Works , Prague. Environment of the factory served as an inspiration for "active graphics" made of industrial material and waste. In 1968 Boudník committed suicide when experimenting with asphyxiation .

Boudník worked mostly in graphics, and developed a number of innovative printmaking techniques. He was also one on the first Czech artist to begin working with the general public, organizing "happenings" and interacting with psychiatric patients.

His work had a large influence on many contemporary Czech artists, especially Bohumil Hrabal , with whom he shared many years of friendship.

Boudník appears in several novels by Hrabal.

Since 1995, the city of Prague has annually awarded the Vladimír Boudník Award ( Cena Vladimíra Boudníka ) to a living Czech printmaking artist.

At least five volumes of collected works and correspondence of Vladimír Boudník were published, for the first time, during the 1990s.

Něžný Barbar (meaning Gentle Barabarian ), Bohumil Hrabal, Prague: Petlice 1973 (Anti-communist secret publishing house); Exile edition: Index, Koeln, 1981.

Vladimir Boudnik is a key figure in the development of post-war abstract art. Boudnik’s innovatory graphic tehniques, whether active or structural graphics, partial destruction of paper format and structure, or the use of unusual liquids in photographic work, opened a new chapter in the history of art. Likewise his influence on young artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s was enormous.

Boudnik’s life in the light of his work, the phases of his development, his texts, programmes and manifestos, as well as diary entries and selected leters, create the central theme of the present exibition.

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