Zdenek Hůla

Zdenek Hůla (*1948) is a Czech painter, sculptor, ceramicist, curator and teacher. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studio of Karel Souček. In his work he has long connected painting and sculpture, organic forms and geometric order, natural processes and precisely built construction. In painting he works with landscape, the cosmos, the elements and the grid as a means of seeking a fixed point in the changeability of the world.

Since the 1980s he has also devoted himself to objects and sculptures, first in wood, later mainly in stone, glass and their mutual tension. Characteristic of him is working with the contrast of worked and natural surfaces, light passing through matter, and the relationship of weight and fragility. He is the author of a number of works in public space, including the memorial of the internment camp in Lety u Písku. His works are represented in the collections of the National Gallery Prague, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the Olomouc Museum of Art and the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové.