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Artist Statement:
I seek the peace of mind and heart sometimes
It is called with many names
I paint what I have found sometimes
I was born on the 15th March 1981 in the Czech Republic, a small middle European country, in an era of a collapsing communistic regime. (Communists governed until the Velvet Revolution in 1989.) My family is secular middle class, ancestrally farmers and workers, but also engineers and had been politically persecuted. My father is a champion in logics and crosswords. A family tradition is a mushroom picking.
I was an inquiring child. I read when I was five years old. I wrote stories and poems; fascinated by the fact that we live and that we are going to die. My best days were rollicking in the garden of my mother's mother and also at the cottage of father's parents at one of the Polish borders. There, in the beautiful countryside, I started to learn Asian martial arts from my friend when I was nine. Trying to find the arcanum of mysterious art of overpowering an attacking enemy without any weapon led me to learn about Asian philosophy and religion. It corresponded with my nature perfectly. Impressed ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo actions :
"Brian Tjepkema, Jan Karpíšek", (with Brian Tjepkema), Doma Gallery, Kyjov, 4.6.-20.6.2010
"Everything has got its own head!", (with Lukáš Karbus), Café Sausalito, Brno, 29.4.-9.6.2010
OHE&<327;ÍHIT - Freegan art of time paintings?, U mloka Gallery, Olomouc, 21.10.-13....
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Artist Galleries:
Dolmen Gallery: www.galerie-dolmen.cz
Gallery Ad-Astra Kurim: www.ad-astra.cz
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Awards:
2nd prize in the Artkontakt competition, Brno, 2004
The Prize of Decan, School Award for Extraordinary Bachelor Work, Brno, 2003
Bibliography:
* MF Dnes Central Bohemia, 8.7.2007, Students exhibit with their teacher, Zdenek Hejduk, 2007
* Atelier, 10/2007, pg.5, The Fluid Arscontact?, Helena Hradska, 2007
* Arscontact Balance, ...
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Collections:
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Gallery Ad-Astra, Kurim, Czech Republic...
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Commissions:
I'm ready to create works for commissions. If you like my paintings, my topics, my direction of concentration, my style - we can discuss it. Sorry, I do not simply copy photographs of anything. But don't hesitate to state some serious topic, some question, spiritual problem etc. If you ...
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