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Martin Stejskal

Martin Stejskal (born 19 February 1944) is a Czech painter, graphic artist, translator, occasional poet, essayist, and author of texts and books dealing with different aspects of Hermeticism.

Career

Stejskal had decisive encounters with poet Karel Å ebek (1963) and hermetist Theofanus Abba (1972). Å ebek was an important poet from the Czech Surrealists circle from the 1960s. He disappeared in 2004. Theofanus Abba (the civic name of Josef Louda) was a Czech hermetic.

Since 1968 he has worked with Czech and Slovak surrealists. Stejskal authored interpretation methods, for instance contourages and phased illusions. He creates computer graphics (so-called digitages) and original computer animations. He lives in Prague.

Selected individual exhibitions

  • Hra proti „hře“/ A Game Against “the Game’’ (Dům uměni, Brno, Czech Republic 1972)
  • Peintures et dessins (L’envers du miroir Gallery, Paris France 1972)
  • ZjiÅ¡tené polohy / Estahlished Positions (Zemědělské museum, Lednice, Czech Republic 1985)
  • Imaginace prostoru / The imagination of Space (Juniorklub Chmelnice, Prague, Czech Republic 1985)
  • Zadem k nekonečnu / Backward to the Infinity (Palác kultury, Galerie VyÅ¡ehrad, Prague, Czech Republic 1990)
  • Problem merkuryáse / Merkuryas problem (Paseka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 1992)
  • Dva čeÅ¡tí surrealisté / Two Czech Surrealists (H. Beekman's cabinet, Alkmaar Holland //with J. Å vankmajer/ 1992)
  • Strážci prahu / Guardians of the Threshold (Paseka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 1997)
  • Bít či nebít? / To Beat or Not to Beat? (Shamballa Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998)
  • Zadem k nekonečnu II / Backward to Infinity II - a selection of works 1968-2002 ( Galerie moderniho uměni, Hradec Kralové, AlÅ¡ova Jihočeská Gallery České Budějovice, Galerie vytvarného uměni, Cheb, Czech Republic 2003).

Publications in English / French

  • 1971 : Pas à pas, Face arrière des nouveaux tableaux, B.L.S, réédition Savelli 1978, no. 4. p. 32. Paris
  • 1974 : Maisons, 14 lithos accompagnées de poèmes de Vincent Bounoure, Collection du B.L.S., Paris
  • 1976 : La civilisation surréaliste, collection de textes choisis présenté par Vincent Bounoure, La rélation cérémonielle, Payot, Paris, p. 307.
  • 1977 : Sans cesse en rond, voix off, cycle de métamorphoses, avec le text de Jean-Louis Bédouin, revue Surréalisme, ed. Savelli, Paris, p. 24–28.
  • 1989 : Prague, Secrets et métamorphoses, article La Prague des alchimistes, p. 129–137, ed. Autrement, Paris
  • 1997 : Secrets de la Prague magique, ed. Dauphin, Prague,
  • 2003 : Praga hermetica (La guide ésotérique à travers Route royale), ed. Eminent, Prague,
  • 2004 : Porte arrière à l'infini, monographie de M. S., Prague,
  • 2014 : Prague insolite et secrète, (photo: Jana Stejskalová), ed. Jonglez, Paris. 2. ed. 2018.
  • 2018 : Tarot Alchymicus T. Abbae, card game, lat. and engl., ed. Vodnář.

References

External links

Revue with contributions by M. S.