Vladimír Havlík (born February 7, 1959) is a Czech action artist, painter and pedagogue.
[Research Centre of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague]
Vladimír Havlík
Education
Havlík was educated at
Palacký University (1978–1983) under the tutelage of Prof. , and at
Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (1999).
Action art
Art historian Pavlína Morganová has described Havlík's key role in the early days of Czechoslovakian action art:
According to Czech curator and art historian ,
In 2015, on being awarded the annual Umělec má cenu prize in
Olomouc
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Located on the Morava (rive ...
, where he lives, Havlík reflected that he is always interested in "experiencing actions again" in the same places where he had initially practiced action art under the Czech communist regime during the 1980s. Moreover, nowadays he enjoys doing so in collaboration with younger artists such as Barborou Klímovou.
[Kvasničková, R.]
"Olomoucký performer Vladimír Havlík získal ocenění iniciativy Umělec má cenu"
Czech Radio
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, Feb 24, 2015.[Záhorská, L.]
''Akční umění po roce 2000, brněnský okruh: Klímová, Šedá, Fryčová, Olivová''
( bachelor's thesis, 2017), Masaryk University
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, Brno
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, Czech Republic
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.
References
Further reading
Havlík, V.
''Actions and Interventions 1978–1988''(
Bratislava
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: Sputnik Editions, 2012).
External links
Havlík
''Yesterday''(autobiographical silent film), , 1983–2008.
Havlík
''Němý film''(Silent Movie, a remake of ''Yesterday'' and ''I Cut My Hair''), Artyčok.tv, 2013.
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1959 births
Palacký University Olomouc alumni
Czech performance artists
20th-century Czech painters
21st-century Czech painters
20th-century Czech male artists
21st-century Czech male artists
Czech male painters
People from Nové Město na Moravě
Living people