Jiří Bielecký, Suspension : works from the 60's-90's Jiří Bielecký, Suspension : works from the 60's - 90's Suspension Jiří Bielecký, Suspension
Abstract
The painter, graphic artist and creator of objects, Jiří Bielecki (1929 - 2000) was one of the major representatives of the generation that entered the art scene in the early nineteen sixties with reductive oriented art. He was one of the first members of the Concretists' Club, where he presented a sensitive counterpoint to the strict geometric form and purely rational structuring of surface and space.
However, despite its specific and original attitude, Bielecki's work still remains unjustly overlooked. Like many artists working in the bleak times of normalization and the Communist regime, Jiří Bielecki spent a large portion of his life without the possibility of public presentation.
He worked far from main artistic centres, in Havířov, and divided his energy between his profession of promotional graphic artists and his own free artistic work. He liked to work alone, in a kind of seclusion that paradoxically provided him with free space and inner concentration, thus forming an environment for original artistic ideas.
He created focused and sensitive art that was in line with the then current trends and tendencies Op art, Kinetic art, Concrete art and Minimalism, and overlapped into other fields, such as design engineering, applied art and architecture. Jiří Bielecki's art certainly deserves a place alongside the most striking manifestations of our post-war art.