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Exploding/Healing
Well-known for his ‘exploding/healing’ actions, Pavel Schmidt illustrates the principle according to which the new always involves a destruction of the old. Plaster and reconstituted stone figures depicting mythological gods and heroes provide his basic materials, which reach a new aesthetic statement through the intervention of the artist. Along with the main artistic work a stream of texts and drawings related to Franz Kafka has been produced. |
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Photograph: Sönke Tollkühn, 2008
Pavel Schmidt
Born in Bratislava (in the former Czechoslovakia) in 1956, Pavel Schmidt studied Chemistry at the University of Bern from 1972. In 1978 he went to Munich, to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (in the class of Hans Baschang), where in 1982 he became assistant to Rudolf Seitz (Professor of Fachdidaktik) and in 1986 to Professor Daniel Spoerri (Chair of Painting and Graphics), before being given his own three-year lectureship from 1989. Since 1980 Pavel Schmidt’s works have been shown internationally in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions. He has produced around a dozen artist’s books, with his own texts and drawings. The artist lives and works in Biel, Munich and Paris.
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