Artists

Martin Velíšek's Skiers are not sportsmen or Skiing in all its unimaginable forms

Martin Velíšek's Skiers, a set of drawings published in 1996 by Argo books, is not limited to just one winter discipline. In the individual drawings one recognizes cross-country skiers, ski jumpers and downhill racers. His skiers, nonetheless, find themselves in a variety of unlikely situations and burdened by limiting circumstances such as blindness, dumbness, or drunkenness, they aren't much prepared to encounter snow and mountains.  Yet they…