Kvíčala Petr *1960
No. 12, 2016
signed on the reverse with monogram PK No. 12 2016, bottom right from PETR side
KVÍČALA, monogrammed PK No. 12 2016, acrylic on canvas, 85 × 80 cm
Inspired by Sandro Botticelli's painting "4 SCENES FROM THE YOUTH OF ST.
ZENOBIO", circa 1500 (the painting is on display at the National Gallery
London).
Petr Kvíčala, Galerie Závodný, Mikulov, 13 April 2017 - 27 May 2017.
2017.
The painting entitled Nr. 5 from 2019 belongs to a series of paintings in which Petr
Kvíčala deals with the motif of natural crystal and illusory representation
paintings towards an object or space. The starting point of this inspiration
for the artist were Giacometti's cubic sculptures from the 1930s,
but also Josef Šíma's paintings with the crystal motif and his own early
work with geometry. The paintings in this series are conceived as brightly coloured
geometric structures that create an optical illusion on the surface of the
impression of plasticity. The individual segments of the crystals appear convex
or concave from the surface of the painting and as a crystalline relief organically
grow organically through the entire space of the canvas. A system that applies geometric
composition of individual geometrically arranged elements follows the
previous works by Petr Kvíčala, who since the 1980s has been developing
a distinctive position of abstract geometric painting, the starting point of which is
ornament as the main subject of the pictorial message. Elementary
geometric shapes and signs, such as the wavy line, circle, line, cross, have been
since then have become the artist's main means of expression, capturing
archaic experience inspired by folk art through
a universal geometric artistic language, the variability of which Kvíčala was able to
fully exploited. The rhythm of the elements in the painting, their seriality, structure and development
in the surface, Kvíčala applied them primarily in the waveform, which enabled the creation of
individual segments, but also a rich network of interlocking
and layered lines, which were also applied during the 1990s in
large-scale commissions in architecture.
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