Vaclav Sedy

Václav Šedý PhD., born in Cesky Tesin (Czech Republic). After completing his studies at the FAMU-Czech Republic National Academy of Cinema and Television in Prague, he devoted himself to architectural photography. At the beginning of the eighties he moved to Italy, where he still lives and works.
Since 1980, he has published in architecture and design magazines such as "AU", "Domus", "Casabella", "Abitare", "Ottagono", focusing on modern and contemporary architecture. He has provided photographic services for various monographs related to the work of Benedetto Alfieri in Asti, the twentieth century in Tuscany, the Glass House by Philip Johnson in New Canaan, the Town Hall in Prague, the architectural work of Vincenzo Scamozzi in Vicenza, sculptures by Arnaldo Pomodoro, the Casa Museo Boschi di Stefano in Milan. He also participated in the Carlo Scarpa Fototeca project for CISA Andrea Palladio, with extensive photographic documentation of the architecture of the Venetian master’s work in Italy and abroad. He collaborated with the Michelucci Foundation, the Milan Triennale, CISA Andrea Palladio, the G. Credito Valtellinese Foundation, the Boschi di Stefano Foundation in Milan. From 2011 to 2013, he was Director of the Czech Cultural Center in Milan. There he developed cultural projects promoting Italian-Czech Republic cooperation in the fields of art, architecture, publishing, music, teaching and pedagogy, political and social. In this role, he organized exhibitions of architecture, photography, graphics and design, conferences, concerts, debates, presentations of books and magazines, both at the Milan headquarters of the Center and at other institutional locations in Milan, Rome and Trieste. Among the various activities, as Director of the Center, together with GARIWO Onlus, he was involved in the project to the plant trees in Milan in memory of Vaclav Havel, and in Brescia in memory of Jan Patocka, with the involvement of many Italian intellectuals.
A connoisseur of the History of Italian and International Architecture, his research has examined the historical evolution of architectural forms; an interest cultivated since his early work in collaboration with the Regional Geographic Museum of Cesky Tesin. Subsequently the critical reading of the architectural structure prevails through the perception of the spatial elements composed in the frame of the photograph. The historical aspect is the common thread that ties his early works to the more recent ones, which were developed through the digital image. If the conception of the book proved to be the best way to present his research, the exhibit layouts highlighted the interrelations between the photographic images and new critical points of view of the architectures taken.
The traditional photographic work in black and white and color accompanied the visual conservation of a temporary event ("Christopher Dresser" exhibition, Triennale di Milano, exhibition "The treasures of the Milan State University", Rotonda della Besana in Milan) and participated in the preparation of architecture and design exhibitions at the Milan Triennale, the CISA in Vicenza, the Rotonda della Besana in Milan, the Rissiera Museum in San Sabba (Trieste).
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