ROBERT BUČEK

(b. 1979)
He graduated from Secondary School of Fine Arts (ceramics and stone specialisation). In the years 2001–2007, he studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Ostrava, under professor Kotrba. In 2012, he earned his PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. In the years 2007–2012, he worked as an assistant tutor in the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Ostrava. Since 2015, he has been the head of the Department of Ceramics at Palacký University Olomouc.

ARTIST STATEMENT

„A Story“ in the broad sense of the word is the point in my work. The story may be experienced, seen, literary or mythical. Sometimes there is a feeling of a given situation and that evokes another, inner feelings consequently. Through the materialization of those feelings I contemplate their contents and identify with them. Most of my work is based on an impulse from a given place – creating a work directly or based on inspiration from a specific place. Sometimes the process of obtaining material is so central for my work that its form and course become one of its parts.