The Olomouc Museum of Art offers a cross-sectional exhibition of Milan Dobeš (1929), a Slovak painter, graphic artist, creator of installations and objects.

Milan Dobeš, who was born in Přerov an lived most of his ninety-five years in Slovakia, began with impressionist landscape paintings and urban exteriors of Bratislava created during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (1951-1956) and continued with cubist paintings of his blue period. Other works on display – geometric drawings and prints in which the basic element is a circle and its segments – are joined by objects and installations in which he works with light and gradually takes on a kinetic and constructivist character.

Dobeš theoretically supported his work with two manifestos. In 1961 he published On Light and Movement, as he used light as an essential part of his work when creating objects. His second artistic manifesto in 1988 was entitled Dynamic Constructivism. Typical of the artist’s work is the use of technicist elements, which is why it is also said that he incorporated a fourth dimension – movement – into his optic-kinetic objects.

Museum of Art Olomouc — Museum of Modern Art