Lot 204

Pavel Baňka (1941) NUDE WITH METAL ARCH (TRIBUTE TO VRATISLAV KAREL NOVÁK)

Pavel Baňka graduated from the Czech Technical University (1958-1963), in 1964-66 he was a member of a Czech beatnik group together with Václav Hrabět, Inka Machulková and Vlaďka Čerepková. He began to take up photography seriously in the late 1970s, when he left his job as a researcher and began his career as a freelance photographer and artist. Pavel Baňka's photographs give the impression of mysterious worlds, often in surreality and contradictions, and we can also find here positions of abstraction. Reality is both recorded and created. What is particularly remarkable in the entire body of work is the ability to constantly invent new possibilities. The figure in the presented composition is dynamic and provocative, and at the same time forms a contouring element of the composition. It is a tribute to an important Czech sculptor and designer.

Published: Pavel Baňka - Reflexe. 2016. Artmap, Praha. p. 45