Education
He studied woodcarving at Secondary Applied Arts School (SUPŠ) in Prague, 1971–1975 and in 1982 graduated from the University of Applied Arts (VŠUttar Pradesh Prague) in film and television graphics.
He studied woodcarving at Secondary Applied Arts School (SUPŠ) in Prague, 1971–1975 and in 1982 graduated from the University of Applied Arts (VŠUttar Pradesh Prague) in film and television graphics.
In 1995, he represented the Czechoslovakian Republic with his illustrations at the Frankfurt International Book-Fair. His comics serial “The Great Travels of Hair and Chinese” was to have been made into a full feature animated film, and he worked on the project for several years although it was not in the end carried through. Alongside illustration, from the beginning of the 1980s he began to make a name for himself as a sculptor and creator of remarkable objects and installations, and it was in this guise that he made the most lasting impression on the public.
(Bude konec světa – The End of the World is Coming), and since 1985 commander of the Order of the Green Ladybird.
He plays and sings in the group Finský barok. The prize carries with it a three-month residential fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco in the United States of America. From 1992, he worked on design of the interiors of the performance areas of The Palace Akropolis in Prague.
In 1993, he was chosen to represent the Czechoslovakian Republic at the 45th Venice Biennale. He made the journey to Italy on foot and then displayed drawings from his 850-km pilgrimage and fragile objects made of articles he had found on the way in the Czechoslovakian Pavilion.
He has been a guest artist at art universities in Australia and the United States of America. In all the spheres of creative activity in which he is involved, his work is distinctive for his exceptional feeling for materials, sense of humor and non-speculative, positive approach to creation.
He is also a real member of the secret organization B.K.S. The scope of his creative activities goes beyond fine art: He is a founding member of the music group Malý taneční orchestr Universal (the Small Dance Band Universal), which performs popular music from the communist era of Czechoslovakia in a humorous fashion. He is a member of the Sklep theatre company and the vocals trio TROS SKETOS.