Galileo Galilei
1994Single piece
Size
4 x 74.80 in
Year
1994
Medium
Sculpture
Reference
b138dce1
Medium: mirror polished stainless steel, golden steel
1942 , Czech Republic
Vladimir Skoda is a sculptor and was born in 1942 (Prague). He lives and works in Paris since 1968. He grew up with a special interest in mathematics and physics and he was also interested in manual work, he did training as a turner-milling and at the same time, he studied drawing. When he was 26 he came to Paris and decided to stay in France to study Arts. The French artist Cesar was one of his teachers and he started working with iron wire. From 1975 he started forging iron and steel, changing his relationship with these materials. In the work of this period appeared simple shapes, “balls”, “tops”, “pyramids”.
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Address
Prague, Dlouhá 12 ,Prague
The gallery Cermak-Eisenkraft was founded in 2014 with the ambition of becoming a leading dealer in post-war and contemporary Czech and international art. The company’s founders, Tomáš Zapletal and David Železný, who were independently active on the Czech art market before the brand was established, set themselves the goal of creating a company of inte...
