Michal Brix -kresby a obrazy 2013-2015

Architect and artist Michal Brix presents his work depicting landscapes – architecture in drawings and paintings. The colors and shapes evoke the artist's sources of inspiration, nature in its diversity and order. The exhibition will last until February 27.
 
THE IMAGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMAGE
 
Michal Brix's paintings not only stem from architecture but are to some extent architecture on canvas. This may sound contradictory, as architecture is inherently three-dimensional. The inhabited one or the one intended for living and other uses without doubt, but it raises the question of why we talk about the architecture of a cell, and it doesn't sound merely as a metaphorical designation. This could lead to a devaluation of the term architecture, which is associated with various phrases linking building art to a range of human activities and things, but it may also argue in favor of the limited universality of this term. If we lean towards the second version without entirely dismissing the first, we can synonymize the purified term architecture with the concept of structure. Architecture can then be called any structure, respectively any thing or living organism. While the boundary between the organic and inorganic leads (not only) historically variable demarcations, which to some extent coincide with the boundary between the living and the non-living, structure encompasses everything living and non-living, organic and inorganic. Structure is everything that has some arrangement, that is configured into shape.
 
Michal Brix's paintings are primarily structures that are architecture in two senses. First, in the way they are constructed, and secondly, as visual reflections of architecture in its basic meaning. The structures in Brix's paintings look as if they were the product of computer algorithms. Unlike them, however, they are not the result of a finite number of elements, as is the case with algorithms, but the product of Brix's constructive invention. They are constructed in such a way that they are a visual reflection of architecture "from the inside," exposing the construction processes used in design. In this sense, the way Brix's paintings are constructed simultaneously reflects what architecture is. Thus, his "canvases" are both an image of architecture and the architecture of the image.
 
Michal Janata
 
Michal Brix, doc. akad. arch.
 
December 2, 1946, Prague
 
STUDY
 
1966—1972 Studied architecture at VŠ UMPRUM, prof. P. Smetana and J. Svoboda.
 
AWARDS
 
1974 “Man Size Prize” design of a linear carrier, Italy — 1st prize.
1978—1979 Urban study of Náměstí Míru, Teplice. The realization was awarded the Grand Prix at the Interarch Architecture Biennale, Sofia 1988.
1980 Tegeler Hafen Berlin. Competition for a housing and leisure center IBA /creative collaboration/. 2nd prize at the international competition.
1992 Myslbek, Prague 1. Award in the combined national competition.
1994 1st prize in the invited competition for the expansion of Prague-Ruzyně airport.
1998 Award from the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic for 1997 for the International Airport Prague.
2000 Mayor of Prague's award for exceptionally high-quality architectural work, International Airport Prague, realized in the period 1989—1999.
 
SELECTED WORKS
 
1979—1980 Man in his World Exposition, Montreal, Canada. Design for the Children's Pavilion for the international expo /realized/.
1985 Pavilion of Antonín's Spring, Mariánské Lázně-Úšovice, realized in 1986.
1986 Area of Lesní Spring with music pavilion, Mariánské Lázně, 1991.
1986 Illustrations for the book by P. Preiss “Italian Artists in Prague”, Panorama Prague. Honorable mention in the competition “Most Beautiful Books of the Year 1986”.
1986 Illustrations for the book by M. Vilímková “Architects of Palaces and Temples – Kryštof and Kilián Dientzenhofer”, Vyšehrad Prague.
1987–1988 Illustrations for the book by J. Hrůza “City of Prague”, Odeon, Prague 1990. Honorable mention in the competition “Most Beautiful Books of the Year 1990”.
1990 Principle Thonet — Valdštejn Riding Hall in Prague — UMPRUM Museum in Prague in collaboration with the German museum in Nuremberg.
1990 Křižík's pavilions — Prague Exhibition Ground, realized in 1991.
1991 Czech Cubism, UMPRUM Museum, Prague.
1993 Church of the Holy Family, rectory and cultural center Luhačovice, completed in 1997.
1994 Hotel Butterfly, Mariánské Lázně /realized/.
1994 Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague — House at the Black Madonna. Permanent exhibition of Czech Cubism.
1996 Exhibition Frank O. Gehry — design and architecture.
1997 Expansion of Václav Havel Airport, Prague-Ruzyně.
1998 Palace Flora, commercial and administrative complex — 1st prize in the competition, realized in 2003.
2001 Exhibition hall of the Municipal House Prague — “Jan Kotěra 1871—1923”.
2001 Exhibition “Ten Centuries of Architecture” — baroque exhibition, Riding Hall of Prague Castle.
2002 Participation in the international competition for the Grand Egyptian Museum, Egypt, Cairo.
2003 Participation in the international competition for the “World Trade Center Site Memorial”, New York.
2006 Permanent exhibition in the hospital in Kuks.
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
1987 Michal Brix Drawings and Projects. Exhibition hall at the colonnade, Mariánské Lázně.
1996 Michal Brix Drawings and Photographs. Fronta Gallery Prague.
2003 Michal Brix — Architectural Drawings. Municipal House in Prague.
2003 Michal Brix — Michal Brix's Cities. Museum of Fine Arts Cheb.
2010 Michal Brix Bioutopia, Gambit Gallery.
2012 Drawings and Paintings 2010—2012, Michal Brix, CTU Prague.
2013 Michal Brix — mini-retrospective, Lávka Gallery Prague.
 
REPRESENTED IN COLLECTIONS
 
National Gallery Prague
Museum of Applied Arts Prague
Art Museum Olomouc
 
Currently engaged in artistic activities.