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Josef Žáček (born 1951 in Prague) is a Czech painter. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1983. Josef Žáček's own visual language was based on geometric signs and later figural symbols through which he came to address universal issues of cultural identity and memory as well as wholly concrete phenomena of the contemporary world. In his work is frequently used principle of a central motif. The same motif appears several times alongside itself, either in paintings arranged next to each other or within the composition of a single picture. His monumental canvases are usually monochrome compositions.〔R. Drury: ''Josef Žáček'', 2010, ISBN 978-80-254-7515-7〕 In 1989 he had first major exhibition at the Youth Gallery in Prague, which featured canvases in abstraction shapes on the theme of The Gospel of St Matthew. In 1994 Žáček exhibited a series of paintings at the Behémot Gallery in Prague that were inspired by events that had occurred in 1993 in Bad Kleinen. The series of evocative portraits of wanted members of the Red Army Faction entitled ''Searching in Lost Space''〔Series of paintings (Searching in Lost Space 1993 ), Josef Žáček's portraits of the Red Army Faction members , 1993〕 is not a celebration of violent solutions, rather it highlights how society has evolved in an unnatural direction. The source of the Žáček's portrets was a poster of wanted R. A. F. activists announcing the reward for their capture. In 1995 at Prague City Gallery he presented the large composition ''Madonna of Prosperity'', an allegory of Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Feast of the Rose-garlands’, portraying in sign-form a striking phenomenon of the new age: consumerist madness. Another of Josef Žáček’s most striking series of paintings are ''Universe'' (1998), ''Eyes of the City'' (2002), ''The Genius Loci'' (2004),〔Dabrowská, Olga () Literární noviny, 30 June 2004 〕 ''Altar of Dreams'' (2005), ''Dream of the Apocalypse'' (2007), ''The Landscape'' (2010).〔() J. Machalický, Galerie NoD, Praha, 2010 〕 In 2011 Žacek presents at the Dox Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, a new series of paintings, entitled ''No Comment''〔(No Comment ) from Primorsky Partisans 2010 series of paintings〕 a group portraits of six young men who, in Russia's Far East, declared a guerrilla war in 2010 against corruption and police brutality. The group, which called itself the “Primorsky Partisans", became notorious across Russia. The artist was inspired by the video posted on internet by the group to explain the motives behind their actions. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josef Žáček」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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