Stanislav Diviš, Klenová
Edition Samiel n.1
A graphic album of six screenprints
Edition: 35 (1-30, I-V) numbered and signed pieces
Year of issue: 2006 / Size of paper: 500 × 700 mm
Introduction by Marcel Fišer / Translated by Magdaléna Krejčová
Executed by the Printmaking Workshop of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
Price: 12 000 CZK / Order: info@gkk.cz
The prints of this album were created after ink drawings which Stanislav Diviš executed during one short stay in Klenová in spring 2005. At the time there was a big retrospective exhibition of his work in the Gallery at the White Unicorn in Klatovy. On this occasion we asked him to contribute to our magazine PARS, namely to a section where we publish works created specifically for the magazine and inspired by Klenová, neighbouring Týnec or the surrounding landscape. About three months later when he reported that his task was accomplished he alone came up with the idea for an album of screenprints similar to the one he realized for Portfolio Kunst AG Wien sometime in 1995 (on that occasion he returned to his older theme of Spartakiads from the late Eighties and early Nineties). And because we as well had thought about something similar for some time, not only was an album born but even a whole series. We call it Samiel after one of the most beautiful prints in Šumava Dying and Romantic by Josef Váchal to which this series refers. Váchal was inspired in turn by the black huntsman from Weber´s The Freeshooter which takes place in the Šumava too. At the beginning there were a few drawings which Diviš scanned and then adjusted in a graphics editor. With one click he could change colours of lines and fields, remove contours and do other tricks. Despite this it could be said that he handles the computer in a very moderate and simple way, in fact he uses it as a brush. Thus a large set of virtual pictures was created in a wide range of styles, from those we chose six of the most interesting ones for actual execution.
Marcel Fišer
Stanislav Diviš (1953) was a member of the group Tvrdohlavi (The Stubborns), which recovered the Czech art in the end of 80's. Presently he is a head of painting department at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2008 a representative retrospective book about his work was published.
