Jiri Georg Dokoupil

JIRI GEORG DOKOUPIL (Czech Republic, 1954).
Untitled, 1992, from the "Suite Olympic Centennial".
Lithograph on 270 gram Vélin d'Arches paper, copy P.A. 35/50.
Signed, dated and justified by hand.
Measurements: 63 x 90 cm.

The Olympic Suite is composed of 50 lithographs and serigraphs chosen to represent various contemporary artistic trends. It was published to commemorate the first centenary of modern Olympism. The chosen artists work in very diverse movements and styles, from the hyperrealism of Antonio Lopez to the abstraction of Sol Lewitt, through abstract expressionism, the geometrism of Arden Quin, conceptual art, pop art, the new realism of Baldaccini and Rotella, or the new fauvism of Dokoupil, among others. Among the artists represented there are creators of great international projection, widely recognized by the critics.

Jiri Georg Dokoupil, German artist, studied fine arts in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main and New York. Member of the German neo-expressionist group "Mülheimer Freiheit", his artistic proposals enjoyed great success during the eighties, coinciding with the debate raised by postmodern art. Dokoupil has worked as a teacher at art academies in Dusseldorf and Madrid, where he directed the Taller de Arte Actual del Círculo de Bellas Artes. Dokoupil's work is difficult to classify, and often resorts to a free mixture of both technique and style. He is currently represented at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Nenes Museum in Weimar, the Musée National Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, among others.