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Bernard Lokai (born 5 September 1960) is a German painter. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a student of Gerhard Richter, and part of the Young Figuratives movement. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany. In 2002 he began teaching at the Freie Kunstakademie Essen in Essen in the Department of Painting and Graphics.




Life


Lokai was born on 5 September 1960 in Bohumín, Czechoslovakia. After his parents left Czechoslovakia, Bernard Lokai grew up in Düren, Germany. After finishing high school he began to study art at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1982. In 1987 he finished the academy as Meisterschüler of Gerhard Richter. At the academy he met the colorfield landscape painter Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, with whom he has participated in several exhibitions as part of the exhibition serial Young Figuratives.




Work


Bernard Lokai's work incorporates the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism and the spray paint of graffiti. His "Landscape Block" works consist of multi-panelled grids composed of eighteen 12 by 16 inch panels, each painted in the studio, then combined into a grid at random.
Art critic Mara Hoberman wrote that Bernard Lokai's Landscape Blocks depict "eighteen land-, sea-, and sky-scapes in disparate styles quoting, in turn, the brushstrokes of Monet, Turner, and Richter (his teacher), among others."




Exhibitions (selection)


2017 Galerie Fellner von Feldegg, Krefeld
2015 Palazzo Albrizzi, Collateralevent of the 56th. Venice Biennale
2015 Bernard Lokai - Neue Werke (new works), Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014 "4 auf 8" with Armin Baumgarten, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka and Katrin Roeber, Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2012 hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2010 hosfelt Gallery, New York City, USA
2010 Gallery Fellner of Feldegg, Krefeld
2010 hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2007 Martin Leyer–Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2006 Schloss Burgau, Düren
2006 Martin Leyer–Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2005 Type fair, Cologne
2005 Galerie Fellner von Feldegg, Krefeld
2004 Gallery Fellner of Feldegg, Krefeld
2004 Art Fair, Cologne
2004 Museum Ludwig
2003 Martin Leyer–Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2003 STE 2003, Prague
2002 Lüriper 24, Mönchengladbach
2002 Airport Art, Frankfurt/M.
2002 Young Figuratives, inter alia with Armin Baumgarten, Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, Peter Lindenberg, Oliver Lochau, Stefan Müller (Stefan Schwarmüller ), Katrin Roeber, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar - Museum of modern and contemporary art, Curator: Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Germany
2002 Verdi Bildungsstätte, Kochelsee Germany
2001 Young Figuratives, Junge Figurative, Carolinenpalais, Ketterer München Munich
2001 Freie Kunstschule, Essen
2000 Martin Leyer-Pritzkow Ausstellungen, Düsseldorf
2000 Due Dimensione, Germania e Giovane arte in Italia, Deutsche Welle, Cologne
1999 Galerie Radke, Krefeld
1996 Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Düren
1996 Galerie Jasim, Düsseldorf
1996 Atrium Gallery, Krefeld
1994 Galerie Jasim. Düsseldorf




References






External links


Literature from and about Bernard Lokai in the German Library
Official Homepage
Art works from Bernard Lokai at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow
"Einfluss", Panel Discussion P1, History of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 18 October 2010, moderated by Laura Richard Janku, with Stefan Kürten, Birgit Jensen e.a.
S.F. gets an better end of Hosfelt show with N.Y. by Kenneth Baker, in San Francisco Chronicle, 1 January 2011

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