Roland Dostal
Dostal is an illustrator, developer, literally a geographer in a wealth of structures whose mapping he drives forward in the often many states of his works on paper, recently on rough bast. In an interview in 2014, after a stay in Asia of several years, Dostal strikingly explained his style of working: “I always work with the ‘fundus’, I work on it for years, and thus it is difficult to distinguish between old and new. The gestures of the 1980s can harmonise with a contemporary language, the old can be new – I am interested in concentration. (...) Whether something is new in a linear sense does not interest me. What happens in the opposite, in the dialogue with the viewer, outside of a concept, this what I find exciting”.
In this sense, Dostal often works with very simple materials and colours in image worlds and out of the ‘pool’ of these pictorial worlds. He claims to be able to discover something about the characteristics of a colour or about the coincidence of patterns that had hitherto not been recognised.
Roland Dostal (*1966) | VITA:
- 1987 Umspannwerk, Singen (D)
- 1988 Adolf Dietrich-Förderpreis; Galerie Susan Mäusli, Zürich
- 1989 Galerie sec 52, Zürich, Helmhaus Zürich
- 1990 Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen; Video Insel, Uraufführung Kino XeniX, Zürich
- 1991 Videopräsentation von «Insel» u.a. Festival Viper Luzern, Oesterreichische Filmfestspiele Wels, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen
- 1993 Preisträger der Internationalen Bodenseekonferenz
- 1993 Städtische Galerie Ravensburg (D); Kunstraum Kreuzlingen
- 1994 Positionen im Raum, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen
- 1994 Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
- 1996 de Fabrik, Eindhoven
- 1996 Galeria Lajos Budapest
- 1997 Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Kunstverein Konstanz
- 1998 La Station, Nizza
- 2008 Art Museum Wuhan (China)
- 2014 Galerie Bleisch, Arbon
- 2017 Kunstraum Kreuzlingen
- 2018 Galerie 1214, Berlin und Bad Dürrheim
