Vaclav Vaca
Vaclav Vaca | |
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Born | Vaclav Vaca 1948 |
Nationality | Czech |
Education | Prague Conservatory |
Known for | Painter |
Movement | Surrealism |
Awards | XSABA International Foundation Award, Merlin Foundation Award for Excellence in the Arts |
Vaclav Vaca (pronounced Vatslaf Vasa) (born 1948) is a Czech surrealist artist.
Biography[]
Childhood – 1948–1968[]
Vaclav Vaca was born in 1948 in Czechoslovakia (later the Czech Republic). From 1963 to 1968 he studied at the Prague Conservatory. Vaca began his artistic career as a ballet dancer and musician. When standing on a street corner performing with his troupe in Paris, he decided to leave for North America.
Canada and painting – 1969–present day[]
In 1969 Vaca moved to Canada and became a painter. He began to exhibit widely in Canada and the United States. He now lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. In 1982 he featured in a television documentary on CBC television entitled "Vaclav Vaca – Fantastic Visions". He now runs an interior design business.[1]
Works[]
His works, which are surrealist, are all brightly coloured and dream-like. Some of his works incorporate religion such as "Gate to heaven" and "The cup".
Solo exhibitions[]
Since 1973, Vaca has had 15 solo exhibitions, with the most recent being in 2006.[2][3]
Notes[]
- ^ Vaca, Vaclav. "Interior Visions – Home". Retrieved 24 September 2010.
- ^ "Saginaw Schedule of The Society for Art of Imagination". Retrieved 24 September 2010.
- ^ "http://www.artofimagination.org/Pages/Saginaw.html Exhibition guide for the Saginaw art museum
References[]
- Interview at Review Magazine
- Biography at Sacred Catalog
- The Purple Pterodactyls, a book for which Vaclav Vaca illustrated the cover
External links[]
- Official website
- Examples of Vaca's works on official website
- Examples of Vaca's works at Sacred Catalog
- Czech painters
- Czech male painters
- 1948 births
- Living people
- Czech painter stubs