Ivan Pinkava Books

Drawing heavily on painterly traditions of portraiture, the Czech photographer Ivan Pinkava (born 1961) has created an immediately recognizable photographic style. This volume, the first of two published for his winter 2012 exhibition at the University Museum of the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, offers the most comprehensive account of his career to date.

Rozsáhlá monografie jednoho z nejvýraznějších současných českých fotografů, který se, jako jeden z mála, dokázal prosadit na mezinárodní scéně. Kniha získala hlavní cenu v soutěži fotografických publikací východní a střední Evropy v roce 2004. Cca 110 duplexových reprodukcí, text česky, anglicky a francouzsky.

"In the course of almost thirty years, the photographer Ivan Pinkava (b. 1961) has created his own distinctive visual language, which can reasonably identified with his own way of thinking about the world. The figures and still lifes in his works intertwine. . They are a modern mirroring of deeper thought processes following on from the language of traditional Western culture. Pinkava intentionally enters well-known iconographic situations in order to change them, sometimes inconspicuously, sometimes radically, jumbling, renaming, emptying, veiling, or making them stand out in another light. He blurs conventional meanings concealed behind the names of classical and biblical figures. In historical settings he finds something common to the present and future and true to both - namely, prefigurations of human uncertainty stemming from our own physical transitoriness. The author of the introductory essay, Petr Vaňous, is an art historian, critic, and curator."--P. 4 of cover.

Katalog k výstavě, která představila ostravskému publiku aktuální práce dvou umělců, fotografa Ivana Pinkavy a sochaře Eliáše Dolejšího. Vydáno u příležitosti výstavy konané od 11. dubna do 10. června 2018 v ostravském Domě umění