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Vladimir Skoda (1942)

In the early 1960s, Vladimir Skoda began learning metalwork at the Slaný Technical School and then worked as a lathe-mill operator in a Prague factory. Vladimir Skoda fled Czechoslovakia in 1968, shortly before the Soviet invasion, and settled in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in César's studio.) With a passion for mathematics and astronomy, he began sculpting his first geometric forms during his residency at the Villa Medici in Rome between 1973 and 1975). Four years later, in 1979, his work focused on the sphere and the cosmological significance of this form: his balls in matt or polished metal or steel, suspended in the air or placed in clusters on the ground, are reminiscent of constellations.) Then, in the mid-1990s, he introduced movement into his sculptures, his famous pendulums reflected in concave or convex forms, in mirror-polished steel creating distortions of reflection and space.Working primarily with metal, he has developed a major work carried by a cosmogony of the world. For several years, he has been working on the sphere, polished metal and movement. He integrates in his work issues that, from his own path, have made him focus on concerns about the spherical, the reflection and deformation of forms and pendular movements. This has led him to cross fields such as non-Euclidean geometry and the astronomical imagination.) His work is inhabited by the play of movement and alteration of form. He is entirely concerned with what the process of its displacement and metamorphosis in space can produce.

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