František Svátek, born 1945 in Tabor Czech Republic, Sculptor (graduated of Academy of Art)

• Technical College of nuclear technology in Prague (graduated 1963)
• Stone Sculpture College in Horice (graduated 1968)
• Academy of fine Arts in Prague (1968–73)
• In 1974 left for West Germany
• 1976 grant holder at Instituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome. Work on Roman fresces and mosaics
• 1978 back to West Germany, restorer of stone sculptures
• 1981 and 82 teaching of sculptoral technology at University in Kassel
• 1984 removed to Italy
• 1985 and 86 teaching of sculptural technology in Centro Europeo per Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico in Venezia
• 1988 began to exhibit and takes part in competitions
• since 1999 has been living permanently in the Czech Republic

Since his studies at Academy he has been thinking out possibilities of mobile objects withcoming into meditative effective symbiosis of stone and water – stability and variability, steady state and coincidence. The topic of hydrokinetic sculpture and movement in general soon become a central topic of Svatek´s sculptural works. Meditatively rhytmical movement of objects is created by the weight or pressure of water coming into hollows of stony objects with the help of a pump (where works in a closed circle). Paralel with hydrokinetic sculptures constructively taken windy objects are made. Since 1993 Svatek also has worked at hydroacustic objects, which enlarge the topic symbiosis of water and stone with sound effects.

REALIZATIONS (selection):

• 1989 Hydrokinetic object, Shobido Tokyo Press, Tokyo, Japan
• 1994 Hydrokinetic fountain, Schienznach Dorf, Switzerland
• 1996 Hydrokinetic object, Perego album, Rovagnate, Italy
• 2001 Hydrokinetic object, Florence (Signa), Italy
• 2002 Wind object, Bilka, Hydrokinetic fountain, Instaplast Zapy, Czech Republic
• 2003 Hydrokinetic object, Fa Roche, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2005 Hydrokinetic fountain, Kavarna Louvre, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2007 Hydrokinetic object, Krajsky urad Plzen, Czech Republic
• 2008 Two hydrokinetic fountains, "Maitrea", Prague, Czech Republic
• 2010 Hydrokinetic fountain, RRC Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
• 2011 Fountain, Harmonie, Trinec, Czech Republic
• 2012 Kinetic fountain, Infraclima Zápy, Czech Republic
• 2013 Kinetic fountain, Muzeum fotografie a moderních obrazových medií, J. Hradec, Czech Republic