JIRI MATEJICEK - INTERVIEW

On March 11, 1999, I was interviewed by Debi Fisher, co-editor of the Artgally News Palette. This is the original Q+A text, the final version can be found here. > 1) How did you get interested in your field? Depends on which one. As for my work - materials science - it was not a straight, immediate decision. When I was in high school, I didn't have much idea what to do, but I was good at math and physics, so I went to Czech Tech. And after some time, I began to like it. I'm quite close to finishing my PhD in this field and will probably stay in it in the future. As for art - that's just my hobby, but very important. My interest in visual art started to grow while I was in college. Before that, all those pictures really did not talk to me too much, maybe except photographs. Now I'm as keen spectator as I like to 'make' images myself. I made my first serious one out of sorrow when my first love let me down (and I think it's still one of the best). Then I just kept doing more, when ispiration came and time permitted. And I'm enjoying shows and exhibits as well, since around the same time, but I don't think it's too related - in my images, I certainly do not try to copy the classics. > 2) Do you have any work on display? Yes. > 3) If so , where ? One of my pics is hanging in the College of Publicistics, Prague, CZ. I don't have any regular display, a list of places (on and off the web) where my images have been or are displayed is at http://www.geocities.com/soho/studios/2165/places.html > 4) Do you have a web site where people surfing the net can go ? My own gallery(Mondo Colorado): http://www.geocities.com/soho/studios/2165/http://gallery.mondocolorado.org/ Mini-gallery from wonderful Sandy Woods (Jiri's Artarama): http://www.artgally.com/jirisartarama > 5) Who or who is your favorite? M.C.Escher, Rene Magritte, Victor Vasarely, Jiri Kolar, Jiri Sliva, plenty of Czech masters you probably don't know; Ansel Adams, David Muench, Josef Sudek, Karl Blossfeldt, Tono Stano, Henri Cartier-Bresson,... > 6) Can you tell us a little about yourself ? My goal in life: to be a good man. My likes: (besides visual art and photography) music, travels, outdoors, biking, hiking, swimming. > 7) How did you find ArtGally? I don't remember - I found it 1st time when it was still CSW on geocities - it was their 2nd show, I think that I entered first. Could be some link from Geocities, maybe Ring around SoHo, maybe accidental surf-on. > 8) Anything else you would like to add to this ? Something more about my creations: I haven't got any formal art education, I rely solely on my eyes, brain and angels of fantasy. I make mostly photographs, collages and a bit of digital images. While the photographs represent a record of the outer world, most of my hand-made images are purely creations of my mind. Any more questions? I'll be happy to answer. I'm not very good at talking just myself. Cheers, Jiri

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