At present the Group Stir
up includes the following aktive members: Václav Pajurek (the spiritual leader,
an art historian and an artis), Pavel Bezděčka, Josef Bubeník, Arnošt Budík (lives
in Brussels, the capital of Belgium), Jan Dočekal, Linda Filipová, Martin Hronza,
Lubomír Kerndl, Gabriela Kopcová, Vladimír Kubíček, Zdeněk Píža, Josef Quis, and
Ondřej Vorel. In the last few years the following members deceased, thus ending
their creative activities for ever: Zdeněk Cibulka (1960-2013). Josef Kremláček
(1937-2015, a co-founder of the Group Lacoste)
and Jan Wolf (1941-2016).
The most natural priority of the Group Stir up membrers consists
in venerating the surrealist attitude to reality. In thist connection it is necessary
to mention several strict priciples: anticlericalism, anticommunism, rejection of
commercialism and of awards and decorations of all kinds. Psychic automatism and
internal model accompanied by prolific imagination are characteristic of the creative
efforts made by the members of the Group Stir up. A very important component of
the creative process is the „creation by chance“ which may generate unforseen pictures.
The Group Stir up publishes the bulletin Styxus in which there is room for the members
to present both reproductions of their works and ideas connected with their creative
expression.
The Group Stir up has a permanent art gallery named Čertův ocas (Devils´
Tail). It occupies three storeys of a former water mill a lovely countryside on
the lower reaches of the Jihlava not far from Třebíč. A member of the Group Stir
up Lubomír Kerndl, who is a painter, sculptor, poet and printer, is the curator
of the art gallery. The undermentioned surrealists from abroad displayed their works
as guest exhibitors at the Gallery Čertův ocas (Devils' Tail) and at exhibitions
organized by the Group Stir up in other places of the Czech Republic:
Eva Garcia (Argentina), Miguel Lohlé (Argentina), Walter De Rycke
(Belgium), Henri Lejeune (Belgium), Thomas Rayner (Belgium), Heloisa Pessoa (Brazil),
Noël Arnaud (France), Jean-Martin Bonteux (France), Aurélien Dauguet (France), Adrien
Dax (France), Jorge
Herrera Fuentealba (Chile), Fredy Flores Knistoff (Chile), Leal Labrin (Chile), Kathleen Fox
(South Africa), Amirah Gazel (Costa Rika), Rik Lina (the Netherlands), Miguel de
Carvalho (Portugal), Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas (Portugal), Fernando H. Garcia Diaz
(Uruquay), Sasha Vlad (USA), Tony Pusey (Great Britain) and John W. Welson (Great
Britain).
Arnošt Budík (Arnost Budik) ranks among the most prominent personalities
not only within the Group Stir up, bat also within the whole present-day surrealist
movement. Since 1969 he has been living in Brussels. He participated in the birth
of the Groups Lacoste and Stir up. For more than fifty years he has been an aktive
theoretician and creator. He has formulated many ideas and judgements that-thanks
to their succinetness-are very close to the young generation of
surrealists. Except
many other texts Budik authored an essay entitled Three-crystal Star. The leitmotiv of this essay is that those tree crystals
– poetry, love and freedom – are the very
foundation of the surrealist art:
Poetry: As early as at the
end of the 18th century German poet Georg Fridrich Philipp, baron od Herdenberg,
know under the pseudonym of Novalis, said that petry was the absolute experienece.
In surrealism poetry penetrated the centre of life in such a way that it ceased
to be only art, but in addition it became the method leading to the widest conciousness.
Surrealism, with reference to Rimbaud's and Marx's idea to change life, to transform
the word“, also examined the problem of relation between poetry and revolution.
Love: In André Breton‘s opinion
love is a fateful force. In the eyes of surrealists love is connected with the highest
spheres of spirit. Breton's postulate that art will be reduced to its simplest expression,
i.e love, is still valid,
Freedom: In the
opinion of surrealists freedom is the fundamental precondition for the development
of human spirit. In this respect surrealism rejects any compromise. Thirst for liberation
is in surrealist creation expressed by avoiding traditional patterns, rules, procedures.
Perhaps it is the very reason why craving for new discoveries is much more important than efforts
for easthetic expression.
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Translated by Zdeněk Poláček.
Translated by Zdeněk Poláček.
*****
EDIÇÃO
COMEMORATIVA | CENTENÁRIO DO SURREALISMO 1919 –2019
Artista
convidado: Alfonso Peña (Costa Rica, 1950)
Agulha Revista de
Cultura
20 ANOS O MUNDO CONOSCO
Número 129 | Março de
2019
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