Jan Jedlička - Hatje Cantz

A two-page spread from a book. The left page is a full-page color photograph of the artist Jan Jedlička in the 1980s. He is standing indoors by a window, mixing paints on a white plate. On the windowsill is a row of glasses filled with colorful liquids, and the window looks out onto a rural landscape with a plowed field. The right page shows the book's table of contents in German and English.

A horizontal abstract artwork titled Das grosse Prag / Great Prague, 2012. The piece is a collage of irregularly shaped, paper-like fragments in earthy tones, scattered across a dark, mottled brown background. The fragments include a large, pale yellow shape on the left, a large black shape on the right, and smaller pieces in orange, green, red, and grey.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left, page 16 shows a watercolor of a large, abstract blue-gray shape on textured paper, captioned Padule, 17. 9. 1994. On the right, page 17 shows a watercolor of a low, rocky formation in brown and gray tones, captioned Collelungo, 28. 7. 1997.

An art catalog spread showing two abstract artworks against a white background. On the left, a square piece from 2004, Maremma, rosso-blu XI, displays a light blue, stencil-like shape on a terracotta red field. On the right, a circular piece from 2004, Maremma, orizzonti tondo, is composed of earthy brown tones, split horizontally into two sections, resembling a horizon.

A book page titled Viererzeichnungen / Quaterna, showing four artworks against a white background. Each artwork consists of a two-by-two grid of four beige paper squares, and each square contains a single, continuous abstract line drawing in pencil. The artworks are dated 1986, 1987, 1986, and 1989.

A two-page spread from a book, featuring an interview in German with artist Jan Jedlička. The text is laid out in two columns on each page. On the right page, there is a small color photograph, a film still from Le Cuoche, 1998, showing three women in a kitchen.

An abstract painting of a stylized landscape, featuring several horizontal, wavy stripes of muted colors like green, red, black, yellow, and brown, stacked to resemble rolling hills or geological strata.

A book spread on a white background, displaying two abstract paintings on pages 76 and 77. On the left, Prague XIV, 2000, features a luminous yellow and orange organic shape on a gray background. On the right, Green Prague, 2019, shows a similar, mottled dark green form on a dark gray background.

A two-page book spread, pages 94 and 95. On the left, a soft, colored drawing of a rock formation against a white background is captioned Ireland. On the right, a black and white photograph shows the gnarled trunk of a large tree with dense foliage, captioned Stourhead.

A two-page book spread displaying ten instant photographs of landscapes, arranged in four groups against a white background. The top-left photos show a river winding through a grassy marsh. Top-right photos show a dry, cracked riverbed. Bottom-left photos show a wide river channel at dusk. Bottom-right photos show a vast, shallow tidal flat with colorful, distorted light. Page numbers 100 and 101 are visible at the bottom corners.

A black-and-white photograph from 1990 shows artist Jan Jedlička working in his studio. He wears a dark shirt and leans over a long workbench, focused on rubbing the surface of a large mezzotint plate. The studio background includes a dark door, a broom, rolled canvases, and an abstract print on the wall.

A page from a publication showing stills from two video works from 2001. The top work, 16 Sketches of Dialogue, shows four rows of images: clouds of smoke over an audience, a person pushing a block down a hall, an outdoor evening scene, and a person's silhouette gesturing. The bottom work, Air, is a sequence of stills showing a red balloon floating away into a blue sky.

Jan Jedlička

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May 2023, 176 Pages, 300 Photos

Hardcover

238mm x 302mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5469-9

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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Rough, pristine, and poetic: Jan Jedlička is a painter, draftsman, graphic artist, photographer and filmmaker, but also a wanderer and explorer. As an attentive observer, he engages with the subtle changes caused by light, the seasons, or human interventions in his environment. Precise, delicate, and quietly persistent, Jedlička's works refer to the landscapes and places in which he moves and returns to again and again like the Italian Maremma. For his drawings, watercolors, and paintings, he extracts pigments from minerals found on site—and thus literally brings the landscape onto paper and canvas. This publication explores Jedlička's oeuvre from the 1970s onwards—not chronologically, but as a map of the artist's movements through the landscape, and along the paths of his various artistic strategies.

Jan Jedlička (b. 1944, Prague) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague before migrating to Switzerland in 1969. He works in various media: painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and film. His works have been exhibited in various galleries and museums in Europe.

EXHIBITION
Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
January 14-April 16, 2023