Zdeněk Pešánek
| Type | Artist Male |
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| URLs | Documentation Wikipedia Czech Wikipedia entry Institutions/museums list of literature Institutions/museums Kunsthalle Praha: "Transformace" project with Federico Díaz |
| Exhibitions | |||||
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| Group exhibition | 2006 - 2007 | The Art of Light | ZKM | Karlsruhe | |
| Retrospective | 1996 - 1997 | Zdeněk Pešánek 1896/1965 | National Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou | Prague, New York, Paris | Copies of Pešánek's works were created by Federico Díaz |
| Solo exhibition | 1996 | Zdeněk Pešánek – Světelné plastiky | Charles Square Gallery | Prague | |
| Solo exhibition | 1996 | Pocta Zdeňku Pešánkovi (Pavel Opočenský / Stanislav Zippe) | Felix Jenewein Gallery | Kutná Hora | |
| Group exhibition | 1996 - 1997 | Jitro kouzelníků (Umění, věda, společnost na přelomu tisíciletí) [Dawn of the Magicians? (Art, Science, Society on the Turn of Milleniums)] | National Gallery | Prague | |
| Group exhibition | 1983 - 1984 | Electra | Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | Paris | |
| Solo exhibition | 1969 | Zdeněk Pešánek – Světelné plastiky | Benedikt Rejt Gallery | Louny | |
| Group exhibition | 1956 | Technology of Tomorrow | National Technical Museum | Prague | |
| Group exhibition | 1939 - 1942 | Krásné světlo [Beautiful Light] | Museum of Decorative Arts | Prague | |
| Group exhibition | 1937 | World Exposition | Quai d'Orsai | Paris | |
| Solo exhibition | 1936 | Zdeněk Pešánek – Světelné plastiky | Museum of Decorative Arts | Prague |
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| Monograph | 1941 | Akademie múzických umění | Kinetismus | Zdeněk Pešánek | 978-80-7331-232-9 | Prague | ||||||
| Monograph | 1996 | Narodni Galerie | Zdeněk Pešánek : 1896 - 1965; Veletržni Palác, [21.11.1996 - 16.2.1997] | Pešánek, Zdeněk [ Illustrator/In ] ; Zemánek, Jiří | 8070351179 | Prague | Národní Galerie v Praze; Národní Galerie v Praze Sbírka Moderního Umění | |||||
| Monograph | 1966 | National Gallery | Zdeněk Pešánek, 1896-1965 | 8070351233 | Prague | National Gallery | Mit Texten von Jiří Zemánek |
Died
Prague, Czech Republic
Publications
Prague, Czech Republic
Kinetismus, Zdeněk Pešánek, Akademie múzických umění, 978-80-7331-232-9
Education
Prague, Czech Republik
Sculpture and medal-making at the Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Štursa
Education
Hořice, Czech Republic
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Studied sculpture with Prof. Dr. Kocian
Born
Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
Today, artists of tomorrow draw on paper what we should see hovering in space or what should be projected on the sky.
— F. Kalivoda, 1941 Excerpt from the preface to “Kinetismus”, a book by Zdeněk Pešánek —
A visionary, that's what a creator whose thoughts were ahead of technologies of his time is a posteriori called. Zdeněk Pešánek surely belongs to this category of artists. His light-kinetic sculptures designed for the public space in the 20s and 30s of the previous century were created only at a cost of a complex, tedious and never totally satisfying work. Though to make his multimedia assemblies, Zdeněk Pešánek was using the most innovative elements and materials of the time: celluloid, light bulbs and neons.These imperfect tools were not translucent enough to diffuse light properly, and were too fragile to withstand adverse weather conditions and their life span was therefore limited. Moreover, acoustic reproduction techniques were still in their infancy and didn't allow for permanent addition of sound to objects or its synchronization with movement and light. It's therefore no surprise that none of Pešánek's original light-kinetic sculptures has been preserved in public space until today. (..)
Zdeněk Pešánek as an authorof atypical, hybrid and timeless works of art represents an emblematic reference for a space dedicated to artistic creativity in all its diversity.
Chistelle Havranek
https://www.kunsthallepraha.org/en/blog/transformace-pesanek-diaz (18.01.2020)
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Edisonka | 1926 | Zdeněk Pešánek | |
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Spectrophone | 1924 | Zdeněk Pešánek | |
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Sto let elektřiny (One Hundred Years of Electricity) | 1932 | Zdeněk Pešánek | |