Štech Adam *1980

PIN UP girl, 2021

mosaic, plaster, frame, 85 × 65 × 3,5 cm, signed. PU in mosaic AS.21.
Adam Štech, an outstanding representative of contemporary Czech painting, belongs to the middle generation of artists who, since the noughties, have been devoted to updating the classical hanging painting and exploring the possibilities of contemporary expressive means in painting. Štech has created a distinctive artistic style in which in the wake of postmodernism, looking back to the interwar modernist art movements and works freely with them. Mostly figurative and portrait paintings contain an element of deformation and deconstruction, a new composition and arrangement of individual body and portrait parts, in which the also contains an element of play and humour. Portrait of President Václav Havel wearing an orange striped sweater containing highlighted basic features and the ubiquitous cigarette, despite the unrealistic depiction, is simply identifiable. The painting Pin up girl, an American post-war motif popular culture, is created by Štech using a mosaic technique in which he combines references to pointillism with the popular technique of the socialist constructionist realism in the former Czechoslovakia, distant from the culture of the Western world.