 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| Czech Republic | 10 |
| USA | 3 |
| France | 3 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Galerie Seine 51, France |
3 |
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Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic |
3 |
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Galerie 4, Czech Republic |
2 |
Biography: 
1961 Born in Náchod, KR (CZ)
Ivan Pinkava CV as pdf-File
The leading contemporary Czech photographer, Ivan Pinkava (1961), within his almost thirty year career, created his own visual language, which fully corresponds to the his view of the world.
The Figures and Shades in his work overlap and are a reflection of thought processes that are typical for traditional Western culture. The author intentionally enters into familiar iconographical situations to - somewhere just slightly, elsewhere radically - alter, jumble, rename, empty or cloak them, or sometimes just see them in another light. Pinkava ignores the established view of ancient and biblical characters, and behind the historic scenes, he finds something common that is valid for both the present and the future - the prototype of human insecurity of their own physical impermanency. Eventually, it all comes down to a personal coping with death. If the nudity of the youth in Pinkava's photographs is pictured as wasteful and self-centered on one hand, it is presented in sharp contrast with death on the other hand. Everyone walks alone and in silence to its inevitable end. The word "heroism" is losing its appearance so characteristic for the history and the legends and acquires an intimate and pathetic meaning.
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 24
Solo shows 8
2012
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| Remains 1997–2011 - Leica Gallery LGP, Prague |
2010
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| Seul Reste L'or - Galerie Seine 51, Paris |
2009
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| Ivan Pinkava - Off Axis - galerie 5. patro, Prague |
2007
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| Ivan Pinkava - Oswald Gallery, Jackson, WY |
2004
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| Ivan Pinkava: Heroes - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
2002
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| Ivan Pinkava – TNF - Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague |
1996
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| Ecce Homo - Galerie 4, Cheb |
1992
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| Ivan Pinkava: Dynastia - Photographic Gallery Hippolyte, Helsinki |
Group shows 16
2013
2012
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| The Phantom of Eastern Europe (Ⅰ), - see+ Art Space/gallery, Beijing |
2011
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| Fundamenty & Sedimenty Vzpoura hraček 2011 - City Gallery Prague / Galerie Hlavního Města Prahy, Prague |
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| Médium - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
2010
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| Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| Darkness for Light - Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo |
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| EGO / Portrait X Photography - Langhans Galerie, Prague |
2008
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| Novy Urbanismus - Galerie Seine 51, Paris |
2007
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| M Y_ F A V O R I T E S - Galerie Seine 51, Paris |
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| Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute - The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN |
2004
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| Olympic Cities - Gods Becoming Men - Frissiras Museum, Athens |
2003
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| Naked Before God - The Museum of New Art, Pärnu |
2001
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| goEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye - Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Braunschweig |
1998
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| Fotografía Checa - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City |
1988
| Dealer Directory 6 |
Czech Republic
France
Slovakia
USA
| | The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN
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| | Oswald Gallery, Jackson, WY
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Collections 6
Czech Republic
| | Moravska Galerie / Moravian Gallery, Brno
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| | Muzeum Umeni Olomouc / The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc
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| | PHP Pražský dům fotografie / Prague House of Photography, Prague
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United Kingdom
| | Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London (England)
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USA
| | MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
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| | The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
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