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STANO FILKO: Reality of Cosmos

Past exhibition
12 September - 27 October 2017
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Works
  • STANO FILKO, Pink bomb, c.1985
    STANO FILKO, Pink bomb, c.1985
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    STANO FILKO
    Pink bomb, c.1985
    Painted metal
    58 x 13 x 11 cm
    22¾ x 5 x 4¼ in
  • STANO FILKO, Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
    STANO FILKO, Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
    Mixed media installation
    124 x 300 x 85 cm
    48¾ x 118 x 33½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Altar to Contemporaneity, 1967
    STANO FILKO, Altar to Contemporaneity, 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Altar to Contemporaneity, 1967
    Signed and dated on reverse
    Mixed madia assemblage
    120 x 75.5 x 10 cm
    47¼ x 29¾ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
    Monotype on map
    95 x 180 cm
    37⅜ x 70⅞ in
  • STANO FILKO, Model of Observation Tower - Red, 1966 - 1967
    STANO FILKO, Model of Observation Tower - Red, 1966 - 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Model of Observation Tower - Red, 1966 - 1967
    Painted metal assemblage
    91 x 47 x 34 cm
    36 x 18½ x 13⅜ in
  • STANO FILKO, Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
    STANO FILKO, Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
    Mixed media installation
    124 x 300 x 85 cm
    48¾ x 118 x 33½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Cosmogenia, c.1990
    STANO FILKO, Cosmogenia, c.1990
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    STANO FILKO
    Cosmogenia, c.1990
    Assemblage
    150 x 140 cm
    59 x 55 in
  • STANO FILKO, Model of a Sculpture, 1976-1977
    STANO FILKO, Model of a Sculpture, 1976-1977
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    STANO FILKO
    Model of a Sculpture, 1976-1977
    Mixed media
    29 x 65 x 15 cm
    11⅜ x 25⅝ x 5⅞ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    Signed and dated lower right
    Monotype on map
    95.2 x 42 cm
    37 ½ x 16 ½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Model of Observation Tower (Yellow), 1966 - 1967
    STANO FILKO, Model of Observation Tower (Yellow), 1966 - 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Model of Observation Tower - Yellow, 1966 - 1967
    Painted metal assemblage
    91 x 47 x 34 cm
    36 x 18½ x 13⅜ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    Monotype on map
    95 x 44 cm
    37½ x 17¼ in
  • STANO FILKO, Reality, 1966
    STANO FILKO, Reality, 1966
    £7,500.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality, 1966
    Monotype on map
    36 x 60 cm
    14 x 23½ in
    £7,500.00
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    Monotype on map
    95 x 44 cm
    37½ x 17¼ in
  • STANO FILKO, Reality I, 1966
    STANO FILKO, Reality I, 1966
    £7,500.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality I, 1966
    Monotype on map
    36 x 60 cm
    14 x 23½ in
    £7,500.00
  • STANO FILKO, Woman’s breast (blue), 1966
    STANO FILKO, Woman’s breast (blue), 1966
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    STANO FILKO
    Woman’s breast (blue), 1966
    Plexiglas
    74 x 56 x 15 cm
    29¼ x 22 x 6 in
  • STANO FILKO, Woman’s breast (red), 1966
    STANO FILKO, Woman’s breast (red), 1966
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    STANO FILKO
    Woman’s breast (red), 1966
    Plexiglas
    74 x 56 x 15 cm
    29¼ x 22 x 6 in
  • STANO FILKO, Reality II, 1966
    STANO FILKO, Reality II, 1966
    £7,500.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality II, 1966
    Monotype on map
    36 x 60 cm
    14 x 23½ in
    £7,500.00
  • STANO FILKO, Reality III, 1966 - c.1990
    STANO FILKO, Reality III, 1966 - c.1990
    £7,500.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality III, 1966 - c.1990
    Monotype on map
    60 x 36 cm
    23½ x 14 in
    £7,500.00
  • STANO FILKO, Reality. HAPPSOC III, 1966
    STANO FILKO, Reality. HAPPSOC III, 1966
    £7,500.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality. HAPPSOC III, 1966
    Monotype on map
    36 x 60 cm
    14 x 23½ in
    £7,500.00
  • STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    Monotype on map
    122 x 40 cm
    48 x 15½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    Monotype on map
    122 x 40 cm
    48 x 15½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    Monotype on map
    95.2 x 42 cm
  • STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    Signed and dated on bottom
    Mixed media
    121.5 x 39.5 cm
    47 7/8 x 15 ½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    Monotype on map
    122 x 40 cm
    48 x 15½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of Europe (Rockets), 1967
    Monotype on map,
    122 x 40 cm,
    48 x 15½ in
  • STANO FILKO, Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    STANO FILKO, Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    STANO FILKO, Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Kozmos, 1968 - 1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    50 x 70 cm
    19¾ x 27½ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Association XXXI. - 1st Flight - Moon, 1969
    STANO FILKO, Association XXXI. - 1st Flight - Moon, 1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Association XXXI. - 1st Flight - Moon, 1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm, 27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Chronology - Associations, 1968 - 1970
    STANO FILKO, Chronology - Associations, 1968 - 1970
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Chronology - Associations, 1968 - 1970
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Associations I, IV, VI, VII, XXXIV, XXXV, 1968-1969
    STANO FILKO, Associations I, IV, VI, VII, XXXIV, XXXV, 1968-1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Associations I, IV, VI, VII, XXXIV, XXXV, 1968-1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    50 x 70 cm
    19¾ x 27½ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Seats - Concept, 1967
    STANO FILKO, Seats - Concept, 1967
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Seats - Concept, 1967
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Reality of Cosmos – A, 1968-1969
    STANO FILKO, Reality of Cosmos – A, 1968-1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality of Cosmos – A, 1968-1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Reality of Cosmos – B, 1968-1969
    STANO FILKO, Reality of Cosmos – B, 1968-1969
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Reality of Cosmos – B, 1968-1969
    Serigraphy on paper
    70 x 50 cm
    27½ x 19¾ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Concept Cosmos. Manual for Constructing Our Solar System, 1968
    STANO FILKO, Concept Cosmos. Manual for Constructing Our Solar System, 1968
    £1,750.00
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    STANO FILKO
    Concept Cosmos. Manual for Constructing Our Solar System, 1968
    Serigraphy on paper
    50 x 70 cm,
    19¾ x 27½ in
    £1,750.00
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Rockets), 1967
    Signed and dated lower right
    Monotype on map
    95 x 40 cm
    37 ½ x 15 ¾ in
  • STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    STANO FILKO, Map of the World (Woman), 1967
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    STANO FILKO
    Map of the World (Woman), 1967
    Monotype on map
    95 x 32 cm
    37½ x 12⅝ in
Overview
STANO FILKO Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967 Mixed media installation 124 x 300 x 85 cm 48¾ x 118 x 33½ in
STANO FILKO
Models of Observation Towers, 1966 - 1967
Mixed media installation
124 x 300 x 85 cm
48¾ x 118 x 33½ in

Stano Filko (b. 1937 Veľká Hradná – d. 2015 Bratislava) was part of the generation of artists who caused an upheaval in the relatively conservative cultural environment of Slovakia in the mid-sixties together with Julius Koller, Alex Mlynárčik and Jana Želibská. While to the west of the Iron Curtain the progressive artists of his generation quickly made their way into museums as well as the market, galleries, collections, publishing houses, magazines, museums and even academies and art history as a discipline – failed in socialist Czechoslovakia. Filko replaced them with his own institution which he built on his “legend of the artist.” It became the heart of his conceptual program and a comprehensive “psychophyilkosophical” symbolic system of ideas, colours and forms (the “SF system”).

 

Today it is clear that Filko is one of the most significant figures of the Central European neo-avant-garde. This exhibition of his works (mainly from 1960s) mirrors his relationship to the realm of life and shows his desire to overstep it towards the universe. It is surely no coincidence, that many of Filko´s conceptual ideas in the 1960s work with geographical metaphors on maps of Czechoslovakia, Europe or the world. Filko created the maps of lands covered with his iconographic symbols as insignia of a new country of a committed spectator. Filko’s unceasing passion for converting the world to his image had obsessive features also in his early work. In the Altars to Contemporaneity, which were paradoxically based on aesthetics of nostalgia, we observe Filko´s messianism of a religious nature en-route towards a new belief in contemporaneity. An assisted ready-made, objet trouvé – often antiques – reminiscing the past and juxtaposing with contemporary expression of a human represented particularly through his narcissistic male desire. Pictures of pin-up girls are side -by-side with symbols of religious devotion and related rituals. In the new religion, body is equal with spirit, sexual ecstasy replaces the religious mysticism. In the plastic and graphic works he overstepped the nostalgia for the past by material and method. Eroticism as a new believe is for Filko a new momentum of the world; rockets and circles, rockets and women, the universe and Earth also suggest the male and female principle.

 

In 1968, his international career was put on hold due to the political and social consequences of the occupation of Czechoslovakia. Almost all of the doors of institutions were closed to him and he spent the 1970s as the spiritus movens of the unofficial art scene. He travelled and exhibited in Yugoslavia, Hungary and Poland and in 1981 he emigrated to the Federative Republic of Germany in his white Škoda 120. A year later, he exhibited it as his Eastern European physical and mental “baggage” at documenta 7, Kassel. In December 1982, he travelled to America, the land of his dreams, and lived in New York until 1990, when he returned to Slovakia.

 

Stano Filko exhibited in 2005 at La Biennale di Venezia in the Czecho-Slovak pavilion along with J. Mančuška and B. Ondreička. Filko's artworks are in collections of the Slovak National Gallery, National Gallery in Prague, Guggenheim Museum, Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Kontact Collection in Vienna and Linea Collection in Bratislava.

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