Abstract
Huge monographic book about an important Czech sculptor Zbyněk Sekal (1923-1998) presents in twenty chapters the artist's personality and his large multiform work. Sekal left Czechoslovakia in 1968 and he was living in vienna till his death, and we must understand his work both in Czech and Austrian artistic context.
Text is continuously confronted with extracts from Sekal's diaries. His work was foemd by the early meeting with the surrealism, with some touches of the informel, but at first it is an authentic independent work, based on a big talent and deep intellectual ability related with the literature (Farnz Kafka etc.) and philosophic knowledge (Martin Heidegger etc).
The monography contains many reproductions and documentary photographs. The concept of this book is based on the idea of text - collage and confrontation.
It is accomplished both by the structure of the text and by the confrontation of black and white archives photographs with newly made color photographs.