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Art theorist, curator, artist, poet. Born 1946. Completed his Czech and German studies and aesthetics at the Faculty of Philosophy at Masaryk University [[Brno]] in 1970, with his graduation thesis on the development and typology of experimental poetry. Since 1963, he has created visual poetry. By the end of the 1960’s his work transformed itself in accordance with the march of concrete poetry and conceptual art. In 1968 he organised [[Computer Graphic (1968 Brno)|Computer Graphic]] art exhibition in [[Brno]]. Since 1972, for almost 30 years, he has been preparing exhibitions in the House of Arts of the City of Brno (Dom umění města Brna). After the realization of the exhibition Contemporary Czech Drawing, he was restricted from publishing. Since the early 1970’s he has cooperated on the organization of non-official exhibitions at several different places in Czechoslovakia. In the 1980’s he organized and realized retrospective exhibitions of the key personalities of Czech art (V. Boštík, M. Knížák and others), after 1990, these exhibition also included authors from abroad (R. P. Lahnse, G. Graser, R. Mieldsam, R. Barry). Lives in [[Prague]] and [[Brno]].  
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'''Jiří Valoch''' (6 September 1946, Brno, Czechoslovakia, now Czechia) is an art historian, curator, artist and poet. He graduated in Czech and German studies and aesthetics from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Masaryk University in [[Brno]] (1965-1970), with a thesis on the development and typology of visual and sound poetry. He has created visual poetry since 1963 and exhibited since 1966. By the end of the 1960s Valoch got closely engaged with concrete poetry and conceptual art. In 1968 he organised the ''[[Computer Graphic]]'' art exhibition in [[Brno]], which travelled to Jihlava and Gottwaldov (now Zlín). From 1968-1972 he was a member of the Klub konkretistů (Concretists' Club). From 1972-2001 he worked as a curator at The House of Arts in Brno (Dom umění města Brna), preparing exhibitions of Czech artists (V. Boštík, [[Milan Knížák]], Vladimír Boudník, J. Kolář, B. Kolářová, A. Šimotová, L. Novák), after 1990 also international artists (R. P. Lahnse, G. Graser, R. Mieldsam, R. Barry). After organising the exhibition ''Contemporary Czech Drawing'' he was forbidden to publish. Starting in the early 1970s he was involved in organising unofficial exhibitions across Czechoslovakia. Valoch was also a member of the Brno section of the Klub konkretistů 2 (from 1997) and the TT Klub of Creative Artists and Theoreticians (from 1991). He lives in [[Brno]].  
  
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==Works==
* Jiří Valoch (ed.), [[Media:Valoch,_Jiří_(1968,_ed.)_-_Computer_Graphic,_catalogue_(Czech).pdf‎|''Computer Graphic'']], catalogue, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968. 16 pages. (Czech)  
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<gallery>
* Klára Kubíčková, [http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/press/download/arta0019.doc "Čtyři tváře Jiřího Valocha"]
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1964-66)_-_panna-vierge,_hlas_=_voix,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''panna-vierge, hlas = voix'', 1964/66
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1964-67)_-_constellations,_ballpoint_pen_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''constellations'', 1964/67
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1964)_-_triady,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''triady'', 1964
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1964)_-_vibrations,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''vibrations'', 1964
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1965)_-_hommage_à_Andree_Dantu,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''hommage à andree dantu'', 1965
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1965)_-_hommage_à_Mondrian,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''hommage à mondrian'', 1965
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1965)_-_typogram,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''typogram'', 1965
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_6,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_7,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1966-67)_-_promĕny_doby_-_variační_báseň,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''promĕny doby - variační báseň'', 1966/67
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1966)_-_two_interlinguistic_poems,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''two interlinguistic poems'', 1966
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_hudba_pro_každého,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''hudba pro každého'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_interpretation_omega,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''interpretation omega'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_the_last,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''the last'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_malá_stochastická_báseň_pro_milana_grygara.jpg|''malá stochastická báseň pro milana grygara'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Třetí_rotační_báseň,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''Třetí rotační báseň'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Třetí_rotační_báseň_2,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''Třetí rotační báseň'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Třetí_rotační_báseň_3,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''Třetí rotační báseň'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Třetí_rotační_báseň_4,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''Třetí rotační báseň'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Untitled_11,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_Untitled_8,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1967)_-_verba_movent,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''verba movent'', 1967
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_movens_ii,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''movens ii''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_movens_iii,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''movens iii''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1968)_-_poetry_for_everyday,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''poetry for everyday'', 1968
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1968)_-_Untitled_12,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|1968
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_eye=auge,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''eye=auge''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_0,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_2,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_4,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_9,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_3,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_5,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_andante,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''andante''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_drop,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''drop''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_silence,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''silence''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_little_poem,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''little poem''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_poetry_dead,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''poetry dead''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_the_last_poem,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|''the last poem''
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_10,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_13,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Untitled_14,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1968)_-_Untitled,_collage,_200x170mmx12.jpg|1968
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1971)_-_Achtung_Nature,_132mm.jpg|''achtung nature'', 1971
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1971)_-_Flower_Negative,_180mm.jpg|''flower negative'', 1971
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1971)_-_Merde,_173mm.jpg|''merde'', 1971
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1980)_-_Three,_171mm.jpg|''three'', 1980
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_Demarcation.jpg|''demarcation''
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==Documents==
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_-_beispiele_der_visuellen_texte,_ballpoint_pen_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|beispiele der visuellen texte
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File:Valoch,_Jiří_(1969)_-_materials_for_visual_poetry_exhibition,_typewritten_text_on_paper,_294x210mm.jpg|materials for visual poetry exhibition, 1969
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</gallery>
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==Publications==
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* ''Hlas/Voice/Voix/Stimme/Hlas'', London: Writers Forum, 1966, [21] leaves; 2nd ed., 1967. {{en}}
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* ''Optical Poem'' [Nine Optical Poems], London: Writers Forum, 1967, [10] leaves.
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* editor, [[Media:Valoch,_Jiří_(1968,_ed.)_-_Computer_Graphic,_catalogue_(Czech).pdf‎|''Computer Graphic'']], Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968, 16 pp. Catalogue. {{cz}}
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* ''3 texts to Juan Hidalgo and Zaj Friends: zaj but not zaj, make zaj not war, zaj is also better then zaj'', Brno, 1968, [1] sheet. Artist book.
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* ''8 Sonnets: I Have Forgotten the Song'', Toronto: Ganglia Press, 1969, [10] leaves. Artist book; concrete poetry; 200 copies. [https://en.isabart.org/document/159642] {{en}}
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* ''Unlucky Number: 13 minipoempamphs'', ''Gronk'' 5:7; ''Minimimi'' 40-52, c.1969. 13 pamphlets in envelope.
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* ''Optical Book'', Brescia: Amodulo, 1970, [10] leaves. [https://en.isabart.org/document/15902] {{it}}
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* ''Ga: The First and Last Collection of Sound Poems'', London: Writers Forum, 1971, [18] pp.
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* editor, with bpNichol, ''[[Media:Valoch_bpNichol_eds_The_Pipe_Recent_Czech_Concrete_Poetry_1973.pdf|The Pipe: Recent Czech Concrete Poetry]]'', Toronto: Coach House, 1973, [28] sheets. [http://ubu.com/vp/Pipe.html] {{en}}
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* ''Jiří Valoch presents: See page 13!'', Friedrichsfehn: International Artist's Cooperation (Klaus Groh), 1973, 16 pp. {{en}}
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* ''Sculptures IV (for Dalibor Chatrný)'', Brno: self-published, 1973. Artist book.
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* ''Dva dny paměti'', 1974. Artist book; 5 copies.
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* ''Jiří Valoch'', ed. Luciano Ori, pref. Aldo Rossi and Jan Pavlík, Rome: Beniamino Carucci, 1975, xxxi+64 pp. [https://www.fondazionebonotto.org/en/collection/poetry/valochjii/5778.html] {{it}},{{en}}
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* ''Do It Yourself: 1971-1974'', Amsterdam: Kontexts, 1975, [8] leaves. 100 copies. {{en}}
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* ''12 Exercises'', Berlin: Hundertmark, c.1976, [14] pp. {{en}}
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* ''Anekdoty bez topografie'', Brno: self-published, 1976. Artist book; 5 copies.
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* editor, ''Partitury: grafická hudba, fónická poezie, akce, parafráze, interpretace'', Prague: Jazzová sekce, 1980, [136] pp. Catalogue. [https://en.isabart.org/document/12570] {{cz}}
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* ''Semiotic Poems'', London: Writers Forum, 1980, [30] leaves. {{en}}
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* ''Haiku'', Underwhich Editions (Canada), 1983, 16 pp. [https://www.seance-centre.com/books/jiri-valoch-haiku]
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* ''Semantic Study, 1975/1983'', Munich: Galerie Edition e, 1983, [34] leaves. [https://en.isabart.org/document/15885] {{de}}
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* ''Word Works, 1974-1984'', Berlin: Reiner, 1984. Artist book. [https://www.fondazionebonotto.org/en/collection/poetry/valochjii/11/9140.html]
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* ''20 Works'', Havendijk: Kunstcentrum Badhuis, 1985, 22 pp. [http://bludnykamen.cz/bk/library/20-works/] {{nl}}/{{en}}
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* ''Jiří Valoch'', ed. M. Koleček, Ústí nad Labem: Unie výtvarných umělců ústecké oblasti, 1995, 210 pp. [https://en.isabart.org/document/15898] {{cz}}
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* ''Jiří Valoch: Die Bedeutung der Worte. Bücher. 27. April – 6. Juli 1997'', forew. Guy Schraenen, Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 1997, [24] pages. Catalogue; 1000 copies. [https://www.guyschraenenediteur.com/jiří-valoch/] {{de}}
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* editor, ''Proměny Ladislava Nováka'', Gallery (Jaroslav Kořán), 2002, 222 pp. Catalogue. [https://en.isabart.org/document/9296] {{cz}}
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* ''Kytička: více či méně nepřesných haiku'', Brno: Vetus Via, 2004, 60 pp. [https://en.isabart.org/document/15890] {{cz}}
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* editor, ''Běla Kolářová'', Prague: Národní galerie v Praze, 2006, 159 pp. Catalogue. [https://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/128880/bela-kolarova/] {{cz}}/{{en}}
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* ''Druhá kytička: více či méně nepřesných haiku'', Brno: Vetus Via, 2008, 90 pp. Poetry collection. {{cz}}
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* ''Bílé listy, 1964-1966'' [1968], eds. Ondřej Chrobák and Jana Písaříková, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2015, 80 pp. Experimental poetry. {{cz}}
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* ''Whatever: výběr z textů 1966-1989'', 2nd ed., exp., eds. Ondřej Chrobák, Petr Ingerle and Jana Písaříková, Brno: Moravská Galerie v Brně, 2020, 765+[24] pp. Anthology of writings. [http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/moravska-galerie/sluzby/e-shop/publikace/jiri-valoch-whatever.aspx?lang=cs] [https://en.isabart.org/document/204578] {{cz}}
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==Literature==
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* Daniel Grúň, [[Media:Grun_Daniel_2018_Amateurism_Under_Socialism_The_Politics_of_Art_Education_in_the_Work_of_Milan_Adamciak_Julius_Koller_and_Jiri_Valoch.pdf|"Amateurism Under Socialism: The Politics of Art Education in the Work of Milan Adamčiak, Július Koller and Jiří Valoch"]], ''Third Text'' 32(4): "Actually Existing Artworlds of Socialism", 2018, pp 434-449. {{en}}
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* Helena Musilová, ''Jiří Valoch: Curator, Theoretician, Collector. Years 1965-1980'', Prague: Národní galerie v Praze, 2019, 220 pp. [https://bookstore.artmap.cz/cs/6117-jiri-valoch-curator-theoretician-collector-helena-musilova] [https://starfos.tacr.cz/cs/project/GA14-32510S] {{en}}
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== See also==
 
[[Czech_Republic#Electroacoustic_and_experimental_music.2C_sound_art]]
 
[[Czech_Republic#Electroacoustic_and_experimental_music.2C_sound_art]]
  
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==Links==
* http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/849
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* [http://www.moravska-galerie.cz/moravska-galerie/stale-expozice/art-is-here-nove-umeni.aspx?lang=en Art is Here: New Art], permanent exhibition of Valoch's collection and archive, Moravian Gallery, Brno. Curated by Ondřej Chrobák, Petr Ingerle and Jana Písaříková.
* http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/4448-JIRI-VALOCH/
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* [https://www.artlist.cz/en/jiri-valoch-101445/ Profile on Artlist.cz]
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* [https://en.isabart.org/person/1877 Profile on abART]
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* [http://dada.compart-bremen.de/node/849 Valoch at compArt daDA], a digital art database
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* [http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/JIRI-VALOCH~pe4448/ Valoch at Avantgarde Museum]
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* [https://mailartists.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/jiri-valoch/ Valoch on Mail Artists Index]
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* [https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiří_Valoch Wikipedia-CS]
  
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Jiří Valoch (6 September 1946, Brno, Czechoslovakia, now Czechia) is an art historian, curator, artist and poet. He graduated in Czech and German studies and aesthetics from the Faculty of Philosophy at the Masaryk University in Brno (1965-1970), with a thesis on the development and typology of visual and sound poetry. He has created visual poetry since 1963 and exhibited since 1966. By the end of the 1960s Valoch got closely engaged with concrete poetry and conceptual art. In 1968 he organised the Computer Graphic art exhibition in Brno, which travelled to Jihlava and Gottwaldov (now Zlín). From 1968-1972 he was a member of the Klub konkretistů (Concretists' Club). From 1972-2001 he worked as a curator at The House of Arts in Brno (Dom umění města Brna), preparing exhibitions of Czech artists (V. Boštík, Milan Knížák, Vladimír Boudník, J. Kolář, B. Kolářová, A. Šimotová, L. Novák), after 1990 also international artists (R. P. Lahnse, G. Graser, R. Mieldsam, R. Barry). After organising the exhibition Contemporary Czech Drawing he was forbidden to publish. Starting in the early 1970s he was involved in organising unofficial exhibitions across Czechoslovakia. Valoch was also a member of the Brno section of the Klub konkretistů 2 (from 1997) and the TT Klub of Creative Artists and Theoreticians (from 1991). He lives in Brno.

Works

Documents

Publications

  • Hlas/Voice/Voix/Stimme/Hlas, London: Writers Forum, 1966, [21] leaves; 2nd ed., 1967. (English)
  • Optical Poem [Nine Optical Poems], London: Writers Forum, 1967, [10] leaves.
  • editor, Computer Graphic, Brno: Dům umění města Brna, 1968, 16 pp. Catalogue. (Czech)
  • 3 texts to Juan Hidalgo and Zaj Friends: zaj but not zaj, make zaj not war, zaj is also better then zaj, Brno, 1968, [1] sheet. Artist book.
  • 8 Sonnets: I Have Forgotten the Song, Toronto: Ganglia Press, 1969, [10] leaves. Artist book; concrete poetry; 200 copies. [1] (English)
  • Unlucky Number: 13 minipoempamphs, Gronk 5:7; Minimimi 40-52, c.1969. 13 pamphlets in envelope.
  • Optical Book, Brescia: Amodulo, 1970, [10] leaves. [2] (Italian)
  • Ga: The First and Last Collection of Sound Poems, London: Writers Forum, 1971, [18] pp.
  • editor, with bpNichol, The Pipe: Recent Czech Concrete Poetry, Toronto: Coach House, 1973, [28] sheets. [3] (English)
  • Jiří Valoch presents: See page 13!, Friedrichsfehn: International Artist's Cooperation (Klaus Groh), 1973, 16 pp. (English)
  • Sculptures IV (for Dalibor Chatrný), Brno: self-published, 1973. Artist book.
  • Dva dny paměti, 1974. Artist book; 5 copies.
  • Jiří Valoch, ed. Luciano Ori, pref. Aldo Rossi and Jan Pavlík, Rome: Beniamino Carucci, 1975, xxxi+64 pp. [4] (Italian),(English)
  • Do It Yourself: 1971-1974, Amsterdam: Kontexts, 1975, [8] leaves. 100 copies. (English)
  • 12 Exercises, Berlin: Hundertmark, c.1976, [14] pp. (English)
  • Anekdoty bez topografie, Brno: self-published, 1976. Artist book; 5 copies.
  • editor, Partitury: grafická hudba, fónická poezie, akce, parafráze, interpretace, Prague: Jazzová sekce, 1980, [136] pp. Catalogue. [5] (Czech)
  • Semiotic Poems, London: Writers Forum, 1980, [30] leaves. (English)
  • Haiku, Underwhich Editions (Canada), 1983, 16 pp. [6]
  • Semantic Study, 1975/1983, Munich: Galerie Edition e, 1983, [34] leaves. [7] (German)
  • Word Works, 1974-1984, Berlin: Reiner, 1984. Artist book. [8]
  • 20 Works, Havendijk: Kunstcentrum Badhuis, 1985, 22 pp. [9] (Dutch)/(English)
  • Jiří Valoch, ed. M. Koleček, Ústí nad Labem: Unie výtvarných umělců ústecké oblasti, 1995, 210 pp. [10] (Czech)
  • Jiří Valoch: Die Bedeutung der Worte. Bücher. 27. April – 6. Juli 1997, forew. Guy Schraenen, Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 1997, [24] pages. Catalogue; 1000 copies. [11] (German)
  • editor, Proměny Ladislava Nováka, Gallery (Jaroslav Kořán), 2002, 222 pp. Catalogue. [12] (Czech)
  • Kytička: více či méně nepřesných haiku, Brno: Vetus Via, 2004, 60 pp. [13] (Czech)
  • editor, Běla Kolářová, Prague: Národní galerie v Praze, 2006, 159 pp. Catalogue. [14] (Czech)/(English)
  • Druhá kytička: více či méně nepřesných haiku, Brno: Vetus Via, 2008, 90 pp. Poetry collection. (Czech)
  • Bílé listy, 1964-1966 [1968], eds. Ondřej Chrobák and Jana Písaříková, Prague: tranzit.cz, 2015, 80 pp. Experimental poetry. (Czech)
  • Whatever: výběr z textů 1966-1989, 2nd ed., exp., eds. Ondřej Chrobák, Petr Ingerle and Jana Písaříková, Brno: Moravská Galerie v Brně, 2020, 765+[24] pp. Anthology of writings. [15] [16] (Czech)

Literature

See also

Czech_Republic#Electroacoustic_and_experimental_music.2C_sound_art

Links