Jiří Valoch

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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 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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Czech_Republic#Electroacoustic_and_experimental_music.2C_sound_art

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