BřEtislav Malý

Sum up the main character of your work, your long-term interests and themes.
I became completely absorbed by the world of colour, going from brief observations of the sky or the structures of invertebrates and rocks to reading literature. It’s a mutual hunt. I feel pursued by colours, but sometimes it inverts and it is me tracking them. It is all much more complicated than this, of course, because we perceive space on the basis of colour contexts. Our circadian rhythms are controlled by light. Colours can evoke moods. So art reflects strong social themes. I see artwork and working with colours as a way of talking about everyday things.
Describe the context of your work – what are your inspirational sources and theoretical starting points, which artists and tendencies do you consider as referential to your work.
I come across something new and have to mediate it to others. I worked with Wittgenstein’s texts for a long time, considering what happens when a context minutely changes. Based on that I made paintings with unusual constructions. They suddenly became objects which work using light and shadow, the way sculptures do. It’s a game with words. One thing is what we see, another what it is, and yet another what we call it. Play...

2006 - 2012 Faculty of fine arts , Brno, CZ, Studio of painting one,

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