Havrilla Vladimír

Havrilla Vladimír

1943 He was born in Bratislava on May 13

1957–1962 Secondary School of Applied Arts, Bratislava

1962 He established his studio in a basement  on C. Hronský Street, where he used to make models of plaster sculptures influenced by Brancusi and Moore.

1962–1968 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava 

Late 1960's He started to write literary works

1970 Four reliefs and a sculpture, House of Mourning, Revúca

1970–1972 Abbey Road Studio at Radlinského Street, Bratislava

1970–1984 Projects of fountains

1972–1982 He applied himself to creating animated works and movies. He produced 20 short movies (super 8mm) and has written approximately 140 screenplays and themes for movies.

1972 A Bird Woman, movie

1974 He is the only artist who decided to leave the Association of the Slovak Visual  Artists

1975 Sculptures in interior and exterior of the Green House, Bratislava

1976 Detention on remand, Bratislava.

1978–1981 Active in performance art within a small group of friends

1978 Little Fountain (Fontánka), Košice (architectural realisation)

1979 Presentation of his movies at Galerie de Appel, Amsterdam and Galerie Dziekanka, Warsaw.  He constructed spatial boxes of bricks

1980–1981 Large cycle of figural pastel-drawings

1982–1984 He signed some of his works as R. W. (Roberta Weinerová. Cycle of paintings on Sweet sixties paper.

1984 Under the pseudonym Roberta Weinerová published fragments of the novel

Night and Day – Svědectví, Paris

1985 The Projects The Atrium and Ten Minutes 1987.

The Project Dix minutes (Inventer 89 competition for architecture)

1986–1994 He designed ceramic works for studio Art 4 in Bratislava and created painted vases, a peculiar coffee cup with two openings that are interconnected at the bottom of the cup

1989–1990 Sculpture Zen Girl, bronze and granite, Bratislava (architectural realisation)

1990–1993 He taught sculpting at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava  and created a logo for the Medium Gallery.

2000 One year before 9/11 hung a poster, The Husband of the Statue of Liberty  (proposal for the final design of the Twin Towers), at World Trade Center, New York. The poster was supplemented with the inscription: Novarum rerum nascitur nobis ordo (The Order of New Things is Approaching)

Solo exhibitions

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1999                                  <!--[endif]-->Bratislava - Akcent Gallery

2000                       New York – WTC

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2000                                  <!--[endif]-->Prague – Spala Gallery

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2001                                  <!--[endif]-->Bratislava – GMB

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2002                                  <!--[endif]-->Bratislava – Gallery Medium

2006                       Bratislava – SNG (Slovak National Gallery)

2007                       Prague – Galerie Mánes

Awards

1998                       Banská Bystrica (Slovak Republic) – Grand Prix – digital graphics

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1999<!--[endif]-->                       Kochi (Japan) - 4.International Triennial Exhibition of Prints – Certificate of merit

<!--[if !supportLists]-->1999  <!--[endif]-->                     Györ - The Masters of Graphic Arts - Prize of The Hungarian Artists Association

1999                       Bratislava (Slovak Republic) – 1. Prize – Olympic Games 2000

<!--[if !supportLists]-->2000  <!--[endif]-->                     Cracow 2000 – International Print Triennial – Jury Prize – digital graphics

2003                      Seoul - The 12 Space International Print Biennial - Selected Prize

2008                      Edmonton Print International (Canada)  Bronze Prize