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One of the most important Czech artists working today, Stanislav Kolíbal is known as one of the pioneers of modern art in his country and is renowned internationally for the simplicity, elegance and refinement of his abstract oeuvre.
Over the past five decades, Stanislav Kolíbal has dealt intensively with questions as to the permanence, stability, and instability of sculptural forms. With a broad-based oeuvre that meanders between the genres of drawing, illustration, sculpture, architecture, stage scenery, and exhibition design, Kolíbal produces works of art that are a meditation on the problems engendered by and linked to man's presence on Earth.
Drawing has always been essential to Kolíbal’s practice, and this exhibition will feature a selection of works that use drawing as a procedural foundation for considering the possibilities offered by space. The show will feature two site-specific Murals, alongside an array of works from his White Reliefs and Black and White Hints series.
Stanislav Kolíbal: The Fundamental Element of Drawing curated by Isabela Villanueva is the first exhibition in Miami of this abstract mastermind. The show is organised by Merzbau Gallery alongside Frameless Gallery, London.
Stanislav Kolíbal was born in 1925 in Orlová, Czech Republic. After the Second World War, he studied Applied Graphics at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, followed by Scenography at the Academy of Performing Arts. He has exhibited in numerous museums and important historical exhibitions like Sculptures from Twenty Nations at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1967), Between Man and Matter: the 10th Tokyo Biennale (1970), and continues to exhibit at some of the world’s most renowned institutions like the Centre Georges Pompidou, MoMA, the Czech National Gallery and the Salzburg Museum of Modern Art amongst many others.
Merzbau Gallery is a space dedicated to the study, exhibition, promotion and dissemination of modern and contemporary art. The Gallery carries out an innovative program in the Miami art scene; it seeks to promote diversity in art, as well as an intense cultural exchange. Merzbau represents and exhibits emerging and mid career local and international artists, whose practices range from photography, painting, installation, sculpture, video, and site-specific practices, amongst others.
Frequently guest curators are invited to conceive and organize new and ambitious projects that furthers Merzbau Gallery´s mission of being a space for cultural exchange and novel discourse production.
Merzbau takes its name from the vast architectural/sculptural project of the Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters. The Gallery was established in 2015 in the heart of the artistic district of Miami: Wynwood; the space was previously known as Viloria Blanco Gallery.
