Jan Stolín Works
You are warmly invited to a lecture by artist and educator Jan Stolín — the final talk of the summer semester in our regular series held in Room D277 — taking place on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 10:00.
Where:
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Room 277
- Drotárska cesta 44, AFAD
When:
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April 24, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.
Lecturer:
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Jan Stolín
Annotation
The lecture will present a cross-section of the work of the artist and teacher Jan Stolín from the 1990s to current works in which his expression is significantly changing. Whereas he used to focus on precisely defined forms, detachment and control, in recent years spontaneous expression, colour, tension and emotion have permeated his installations and drawings. Materials such as light, smoke, air hoses or scaffolding tubes lose their original technical meaning and become vehicles for fragile, sometimes disturbing images. The work oscillates between order and chaos, the mechanical and the organic, the rational and the visceral. The lecture will also include a reminder of the projects on which Jan Stolín collaborated with his brother, the architect Petr Stolín.
Jan Stolín (*1966)
Jan Stolín was born in Svitavy, studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Prague and his life is closely linked to Liberec. Since 1998 he has been a teacher at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University and in 2023 he became its dean. He is a finalist for the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2000, and a year later he and his brother, architect Petr Stolín, received the Grand Prix of Honour from the Architects' Association. His current work focuses mainly on the reinterpretation of space. In addition to his artistic and pedagogical work, he has also systematically devoted himself to curating - in 1997 he co-founded the gallery Die Aktualität des Schönen in Liberec and since 2013 he has run the private gallery Cube × Cube Gallery.
