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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 :
"A Painter, A Man", Dolmen
Gallery, Uherske Hradiste,
29.9.-26.10.2007
"Ecogardener's brush-drawings
on paper", Minikino Gallery,
Ostrava, 28.9.-31.10.2007
Confession in Krmitko (Bird
Table), Krmitko Club at
Masaryk University, Brno,
21.2.-14.3. 2006
"Following Mind and Time",
Gallery ...
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Artist Galleries:
Dolmen Gallery:
www.galerie-dolmen.cz
Gallery Ad-Astra Kurim:
www.ad-astra.cz
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Artist Reviews:
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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