Ovčáček Eduard 1933–2022
Architekton V., 2004
bronze, 1/4, 60 × 21 × 18 cm, signed engraved underneath E.O.1/4
Eduard Ovčáček, author of visual poetry, graphic designer, painter, sculptor, photographer,
educator, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1957-1963
Arts in Bratislava. In the early 1960s he was one of the initiators of the
unofficial Bratislava exhibitions Confrontation I-III (1961-1963).
In the 1960s he became a member of the Concretists Club. Since the 1970s
when he became a signatory of Charter 77, he was unable to speak publicly
and exhibit in official galleries. He worked in Ostrava all his life,
where he taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts. His work is
represented in important private and institutional collections.
Eduard Ovčáček used a variety of media to process the characters in his paintings
and experimental techniques. A separate chapter of his work consisted of
from the 1960s onwards, wooden objects that were created in accordance with
with the geometrically oriented work of the Concretist Club. Objects,
called Architektons, stood on the border between sculpture and architectural
element. They consisted of repeating geometric segments assembled
in a rhythmic spatial composition in the shape of a column. The order of the individual
of segments and their layering, which regularly deviated from the central axis, caused
the impression of movement or op-art
effect of an otherwise static work.
Exhibited: Borders of Geometry, 2009, Gallery Z, Gallery GiK,
Bratislava, SK.
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