Vladimír Kokolia
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| Born | 27 November 1956 Brno, Czechoslovakia |
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Vladimír Kokolia (born 27 November 1956) is a Czech contemporary painter. Kokolia has also worked across a variety of other mediums, most notably printmaking and drawing, and is also a poet and musician.[1]
Academic work
[edit]Kokolia was educated at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště. He then studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, going on to become a lecturer at the academy, and in 1992, the studio head lecturer in graphics. He was appointed to a professorship in 2006.[1]
Music
[edit]Kokolia was a singer and lyricist with the Czech alternative underground music group E in Brno from 1984 to 1997.[1]
Contemporary art
[edit]Kokolia's work has been included in a number of high+profile exhibitions. Between 1990 and 1991, he exhibited alongside Ivan Kafka and Tomas Ruller at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[2] In 1990, he was the first recipient of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award for young artists.<[3]
Two of his works, Bez názvu (Untitled - 1990) (a colour linoprint and mixed media) and Barevny (Colourful - 1993) (a colour linocut), can also be found in the US National Gallery of Art collection.[4]
Kokolia maintains a blog in Czech and a wiki called "Kokopedia".[5] As of 2018[update] The wiki contains photographs of 35 graphics works, 23 drawings, 54 paintings, plus 9 watercolours, as well as 117 uncategorised pictures. There are also lyrics, articles, videos, and lists of people who are connected to Kokolia in some way.[5]
From July until September 2018, a major exhibition of Kokolia's paintings took place at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Vladimir Kokolia – Biography". rogallery.com.
- ^ "Three Artists from Bohemia: Art Against False Consciousness". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ "Laureáti ceny Jindřicha Chalupeckého" (in Czech). Společnost Jindřicha Chalupeckého. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
- ^ "Artist Info". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
- ^ a b Kokolia, Vladimir. "Kategorie:Obrazy (Category: Paintings)". Kokopedia. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
- ^ "Ikon Vladimír Kokolia". Ikon Gallery.