Škoda Vladimír *1942

Circle, 1977

signed SKODA 1977 on the reverse, bronze, 18 × 18 × 2,4 cm
The offered work belongs to the early sculptural realizations Vladimír Škoda, an artist of Czech origin living in France, who since the mid-1970s has been working with various technologically processed metal. In 1977-78 he created several metal reliefs combining the work of with material and drawing. The small relief Circle from 1977 is one of these works, which already thematizes a lifelong inspiration and Skoda's fascination with the cosmos, geometric and mathematical principles. An important element of the work is also the irregular surface structure of the metal, which moves the work in the direction of towards the processual and organic processes of creation and dissolution, which are part of the cosmic principle. Square and circle are among the basic geometric shapes that express the symbolism associated with infinity and order and are part of many mathematical questions and theories, such as quadrature the circle. According to the theory of the absolute square, the circle is identical to to a square which, by the force of gravity, according to the theory relativity curves in time and space. Since the late 1980s. French sculptor of Czech origin Vladimír Škoda (born 1942) emigrated to France in August 1968. Here he acquired scholarship at the Faculty of Philosophy in Grenoble and at the same time he became a student at the École des Arts Décoratifs. In 1969 he studied des Beaux Arts in Paris. He worked as a professor at from 1980 to 1994 at the École d'Art in Le Havre and the École d'Art in Marseille and from 1994-2007 at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. His work is represented in major institutional collections, such as the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, Gemaeldegalerie in Dresden and the National Gallery in Prague.