Jozef Jankovi\u010d (1937\u20132017) was one of the most promising Slovak sculptors. After his graduation from Bratislava\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts in 1962, Jankovi\u010d proceeded to create a number of monumental public works. His distorted human figures, seemingly deformed by social constraints and political oppression, also attracted international attention. He nonetheless became increasingly marginalized during Czechoslovakia\u2019s \u2018normalization\u2019 period. Unable to secure exhibition opportunities or official commissions for large-scale works, Jankovi\u010d shifted his focus to drawing and graphic art.
In a series entitled \u2018Architectures\u2019, he created drawings of fictional, at times anthropomorphic buildings that offered a satirical critique of the megalomania of modernism, and of totalitarian policies that tried to exert control over the universe through architecture, as exemplified by his \u201aProject for the Party Hotel on the Moon\u2018. His drawings also commented on the architectural experiments of the time. His \u201aProject of a Parliament with an Inflatable Roof\u2018 and \u201aPortable Pneumatic Agitprop Centre\u2018 both addressed the then popular concept of inflatable architecture, which allowed buildings to be particularly flexible. His novel, often humorous and even absurd ideas for transforming architecture, which he called \u2018human architecture\u2019, ultimately reinterpreted the very idea of architecture from the perspective of the human being who is so often neglected by modern mass construction projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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