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Born in 1958, Zdenek Tomanek has graduated from the Academy of Fine Art in Prague, CZ.
Since 1990, he has been the head of sculpture department at the Secondary School of Applied Art in Uherske Hradiste, also in Czech Republic.
He is a member of the VM Group (artists of Eastern Moravia), the Brno Q Association and the Association of Artists-Medallists. He has participated at international medal and sculpture symposia. Since the beginning of his art work, he has splitted his attention between sculptures and drawings.
At first he decides for sculpture arising from the shape of the human body or sculptures warning about the danger that people's thoughtlessness imposes on nature ('Predator').
At he end of the 80s and the first half of the nineties, he turns to the relieve of a huge composition system, to the intensive tension out of which arises the alternation of convex and concave shapes freshed up with notches and imprints of objects, which he had made himself ('Head over Heals', 'Last Flight', 'Last Commander', etc... ).
Since 1991, he has also paid attention to intimate bronze sculptures. His works called 'Wild Life Sanctuary', 'Space' or 'Trap' represent complicated constructions, some kind of cages of human civilization, where nature dies but also forces its way to a new life.
A counterbalance to the above mentioned works has been represented by playfully shaped works, e.g. the 'Happy Cage', the 'Tower of Civilization' or by sculptures with round modelled shapes-symbols of nature process (the 'Budding') and by those inspired by the animal world (the 'Muzzle').
At the end of the nineties and early 2000's, Zdenek Tomanek began to create dematerialized bronze sculptures, strongly expanded in space like his 'Butterfly Touch' or 'Apart'.
He has also made several spacious exterior works typical for monumental expressivness ('Darmocles' Pendulum', the 'First Drop', the 'Last Drop' or the 'Unicorn').
Cooperating with Miroslav Malina, a painter, they have designed a majestic water fountain for the town of Uherske Hradiste.
His drawings full of colour and sparkling bear some formal generosity and expressive imperativeness.
His works belongs to an expressive, dramatically precarious style of present fine art. |
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