Hilmar Jiří (*1937)

Untitled, 1999

wood, 5/5, 15 × 15 × 3,5 cm, signed Hilmar 99 on the reverse.
Jiří Hilmar is one of the outstanding representatives of the Czech constructive oriented art, which since the 1960s has been looking for possibilities and ways of expressing a new positive relationship to the world of technology and civilization. From the 1970s onwards, Hilmar's interest turned to nature and the need to preserve and conserve it. The objects, made of wooden slats, which are glued back together, sanded and polished, recreate nature and deconstruct its meaning. Jiří Hilmar graduated from the Secondary Industrial School of Interior Design in Prague under Professor Richard Pipal between 1952 and 1956. At the end of the 1960s, he studied at the University of Prague. He went into exile in Germany, where the second stage of his work was created. He worked in the groups Gerade, Künstler Siedlung Halfmannshof Gelsenkirchen, Other Geometry, Czech Exile (Germany), Club of Concretists and Exil.