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Josef Bolf
Participation in missions:
MKK002
Artist’s Pages: http://www.josefbolf.com
Mail: josefbolf@gmail.com
Year/Place of Birth: 1971 - Praha - ČR
Education: AVU v Praze - Malířské studio (J. Načeradský), Škola grafiky (V. Kokolia, V. Skrepl)
I believe that in my work I deal with topics that are important to me; I re-construct and re-create my experiences (and memories), searching for an alternative space for them. All emotions that I experience directly are concerned with actions- in some kind of a parallel world. In a certain way, it is a form of stylized “diary” entries. In my experience, the painting which is done in cooperation with some concept is capable of reflecting the life reality better.” (JB)
“Josef Bolf’s paintings do not represent exhibitionistic art-therapy that would touch viewers with its sincerity and hopelessness at the same time. Rather than that, his paintings reflect the grievousness of contemporary art, a fact that makes it so easy to identify oneself with the depressive phenomena.” “By scratching (on a wax foundation covered with ink it is possible to create not only thin lines, but also entire scratched areas), Bolf succeeded to elegantly “circumvent” the problem of relationship between drawing and painting. It is a combined technique that is equally close to both.”
“Josef Bolf’s paintings, literally lacerated, radiate poignant beauty. Their characters are difficult for us to define, even though we are intimately familiar with those plush characters with inflamed eyes that are too scared by the world around to even leave their living room; alternatively, they are spiritlessly wandering around in neighbourhoods and supermarkets.”
“Last but not least, in a recent Bolf’s series we can find the details that were precisely observed from real life. An absurd cemetery in Chodov, a mask of the approaching metro train, the empty supermarket atmosphere, or a dreary evening spent surfing the internet- they all symbolize a city alienation phenomenon, but in the metaphorical sense, they closely document contemporary life.” (zTP)
In 2005 he was nominated for Jindrich Chalupecky Award.
SINGLE EXHIBITIONS
2008 Blansko (Josef Bolf-You Resemble Me),City of Blansko Gallery)
2008 Brno (…We All Succumb…House of the Kunstadts)
2008 Berlin (Great Expectations, ZAK Gallery)
2008 Ostrava (Josef Bolf: Suspirium, Sokolska Exhibition Hall)
2007 Kurim (What if You Can Come Back in Time, and Can Change All Those Hours of Pain and Darkness for Something Better, Ad Astra Gallery)
2007 Brno (Pink Eyes, Na bidylku Gallery)
2006 Nachod (My Empire of Dirt, Slavie Gallery)
2006 Prague (Soft and Pink, Hunt Kastner Artwork)
2006 Brno (Death is Not the End? Moravian Gallery)
2005 Prague (Double Feature Picture Show- together with J. Serych, Ceska pojistovna Gallery)
2004 Hranice na Morave (Dogs, Faces, Cabbage Food, City Gallery)
2004 Prague (Josef Bolf, A.M. 180)
2003 Prague (Narapoia, Ouky Douky Café)
2002 Brno (Un Gatto nel Cervello, Na bidylku Gallery)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Munchen (Transfer, WhiteBOX Gallery)
2008 Braunschweig (Evokation versus Fetisch, Galerie der Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig)
2008 Prague (Zvon 2008- 6th Biennial of Young Art, House at a Stone Bell)
2008 Prague (Spleen & Ideal, Karlin Studios)
2007 Torino (Fragments.cz, Castello di Rivara, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea)
2007 Sydney (NeuEuropa, Ray Hughs Gallery)
