“The visual language of Pavel P\u0159\u00edkask\u00fd\u2019s work is a multifaceted play with human corporeality, kept in the spirit of posthumanist tendencies. In the motif of fauna and flora, the artist seeks to blur the boundaries between biological life and mythical beings and the symbolism associated with them. The delicate painterly gesture, executed with sparse, diluted paint, oscillates between the abstraction of pigment structures and the rhetoric of figuration \u2013 his work can be compared to contemporary genetic dystopias as well as to imaginative games known from surrealism and, even earlier, from Art Nouveau.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viktor \u010cech, excerpt from the text accompanying the exhibition “Mucilago,” Go\u010d\u00e1rova galerie, Pardubice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pavel P\u0159\u00edkask\u00fd (*1985) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2012, from the painting studio of Vladim\u00edr Kokolia. Over the past years, his work has undergone a marked transformation. A painter whose practice has always balanced on the edge of abstraction and figuration, he has increasingly approached painting as an open surface into and out of which distinct spatial elements enter. From a certain point on, his canvases began to transcend the two-dimensional plane, becoming reliefs and, in places, sculpturally malleable objects. This shift was significantly influenced by his collaboration with conceptual and video artist Miroslava Ve\u010de\u0159ov\u00e1 (since 2016). In dialogue with her video installations, P\u0159\u00edkask\u00fd\u2019s paintings started to absorb strategies that allow them to \u201cstep out\u201d into space \u2013 through light wall paintings extending motifs from the canvas onto surrounding walls, through coloured fringes and gel-like clusters. The fringes form dense streams or braids of colour cascading from the canvases to the floor or covering their surfaces like a curtain one can peer behind. Although these elements interweave with abstract and figurative motifs, the work is fundamentally grounded in figurative drawing, often based on zoomorphic forms. Animals appear as if lost in a haze, hovering between dream and memory, while recurring transformations between human and animal lend the paintings a melancholic, symbolic dimension. Positioned between abstraction and figuration, neither purely painting nor sculpture, P\u0159\u00edkask\u00fd\u2019s works articulate a distinctly personal language that mirrors the ambivalence and uncertainty of our contemporary world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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