Vladimír Merta

born: 16. 5. 1957 in Frýdek-Místek
graduate: Akademie výtvarných umění in Prague
address: Petrské nám. 10, 110 00 Prague 1
e-mail: merta@mertavladimir.cz
http://environment.ffa.vutbr.cz/vladmer/vladmer.html

I was amused by an image depicting the similarity of two situations which could really happen under some lucky circumstances. One of them happened in the1930s when Karel Absolon, during his archeological excavations found Venus of Věstonice, besides a huge pile of mammoth ivory, animal bones and other traces of people who lived on the Pálava Hills more than 20,000 years ago. The other situation, given the circumstance are really favourable, will happen some time in the future in Pálava, too, this time in the site where Mikulov once stood. A future Absolon will dig out one of the well deposited artifacts created at the „dílna“ symposium. And if everything goes the wa it should, it will be one of Václav Stratil's penis-art works created on unstable paper. As I see it, penis will no longer exist in that time and the founders will be just as perplexed as we are today when we look at Venus of Věstonice and have no clue.

Vladimír Merta

Twin Peaks
acryl on canvas, 140 x 190 cm, 2004

Documentary Movie
acryl on canvas, 140 x 190 cm, 2004

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.