Pavel Opočenský

born: 7. 8. 1954
graduate: SUPŠ Jablonec nad Nisou, SUPŠ Turnov
address: Neklanova 40, 120 00 Prague 2

Stone

Stone evokes many associations such as hardness, weight, massiveness, capaciousness, insolence, and so on. The path to a successful work leads through these characteristics: under certain circumstances, it can be very effective and successful to work with absolutely contradictory features of stone. I for example juxtaposed the features of hardness and capaciousness to arrive, through a creative process, to transparency and fragility. Empty spaces contrast with weight, capaciousness. In the last three years, I have been working mainly with negative, hollow spaces in connection with undefined functionality. I have been inspired by many remains of stone foundations of unknown statues of ancient civilisations as well as by my collection of production objects of optical and exact tools. For me, the leading principle is that the more mysterious an object is, the more attractive it appears. I do not specify the marking of any of these openings, channels and chimneys in my objects; I don’t in fact want to know them myself.

Pavel Opočenský

Without Title
granite, 210 x 120 x 45 cm, 1999

List of artists participating in MAS "dílna" in 1994–2010

Nikos Armutidis (1994 , 1999 , 2003) , Jan Bačkovský , Alena Beldová , Karl – Heinz Bethmann , Erika Bornová , Machiel Botman , Veronika Bromová , Milan Cais Tomáš Císařovský (2000 , 2001 , 2003) , Rostislav Čuřík Jiří David (2007 , 2008) , Stanislav Diviš , Milena Dopitová , Jana Doubková Eva Eisler (2005 , 2006) , Michal Gabriel , Zdeněk Halla , Zbyněk Havlín , Milan Houser , Dalibor Chatrný , Jeff Chiplis Petr Jareš (1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2003) , Irena Jůzová , Vladimíra Klumparová , Richard Kočí , Ondřej Kohout , Eva Koťátková , Nina Kotel , Jiří Kovanda , Vojtěch Kovářík , František Kowolowski , Radovan Král , Antonín Kratochvíl , Antonín Kratochvíl , Milan Kunc , Tomáš Lahoda Zdeněk Lhotský (1994 , 1995) Libor Lípa (1994 , 2000 , 2003) Ivana Lomová (2001 , 2002 , 2003) , Petr Lysáček , Christian Macketanz , Martin Mainer , Tomáš Medek , Vladimír Merta Stefan Milkov (1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Aleš Najbrt , Klára Nejezchlebová , Jaromíra Němcová Petr Nikl (2001 , 2003) , Libor Novotný Vít Novotný (1997 , 2003) , Pavel Opočenský , Petra Pavlicová , Jiří Pikous , Tereza Brichtová Pirščová , Petr Písařík , Viktor Pivovarov , Otto Placht Martina Riedlbauchová (1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2003) , Veronika Richterová , Ulric Roldanus Jaroslav Róna (1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Tomáš Ruller , Kamila Rýparová , Vladimir Salnikov , František Skála , Roman Sliwka , Daniela Sneppová Jiří Sobotka (1999 , 2005) , Tono Stano , Jan Stolín , Václav Stratil , Antonín Střížek Čestmír Suška (1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Michal Šmeral , Vladimír Špaček , Jindřich Štreit , Laco Teren , Michaela Klimanová Trizuljaková , Účastníci 10. ročníku MVS , Woody Vasulka , Tereza Velíková , Kateřina Vincourová , Eva Vones , Michaela Vrbková Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1999 , 2004) , Petr Zubek

Realized as Part of the Project

Mikulov – a Town of Art.

This Project is Co-funded by the European Union and the South-Moravian Region.