Štrukturálny optický reliéf I./ Structural optical relief I. is an object created from metal and glass. It consists of a simple metal circle and semi-circle rasters that are overlapping and multiplying each other. Due to the composition of the basic geometric shapes and the reflex surface of the metal the author is creating an illusion of the three dimensional space and the virtual movement. The important part, while observing this relief, is that it engages theviewertoparticipate. According to the fact, how the position of the viewer is being changed, the imaginary movement is created in the structure of the pattern, which is being changed as well.
Milan Dobeš belongs to the most significant representatives of the op-art, optical and kinetic art who was a respected authority on the international artistic scene in the 1960s and 1970s. He entered the art scene in the second half of the 1950s. In his artistic programe he works with graphics, creates kinetic objects and mobiles. He created his first optical-kinetical object Pulzujúci rytmus I./Vibrant rhythm I. (1960) in 1960.
Milan Dobeš was born on July 29, 1929 in Přerov. In 1951-56 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (prof. L. Černický, prof. B. Hoffstädter and prof. D. Milly). In 1983-84 he summarized his research on the field of optical and kinetic art into a manifesto Dynamický konštruktivizmus/Dynamic constructivism, first published in 1989. He participated in many important exhibitions in Slovak and international context. Within the most important belongs Nová citlivost/New sensitivity in 1968, Documenta 4 in Kassel in 1968, or the exhibition EXPO ´70 in Osaka or Polymúzický priestor I./Poly-muses space I. in 1970.
No.: P 431
Artist: Milan Dobeš
Title: Structural optical relief I.
Year of origin: 1989
Technique: mixed technique
Material: mixed material (glass, metal)
Dimensions: 51 × 51 cm
Signature: unsigned