


Painting, Oil on Canvas
70.9 W x 78.7 H in
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Břetislav Malý’s main intention is to examine the medium of traditional painting, particularly its dis-integration into colour and colours which he deconstructs and synthesises into his saturated, intense colour fields. Examining colours and spaces that both connect the colours and divide them natur...
2017
Painting, Oil on Canvas
One-of-a-kind Artwork
70.9 W x 78.7 H x 1.6 D in
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Czech Republic
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. Playing with words is crucial for our perception of colours. The portfolio includes paintings about the contexts of colours. I put together a table of wavelengths of colours that I use. I reconstructed some artistic processes, procedures and theories of colour from the painter’s perspective. I have been using graphs to paint a problem approached purely on the basis of the relationship of colours, for example to show what happens between yellow and orange. I am interested in defining the relationship correctly. This project generated striped processual paintings. Recently I have been fascinated by the surface of the painting and I was very impressed by the show Abstract Spatial in 2016 in Kremz. I am interested in how the surface area deforms under the weight of connotations of the theme and in what the viewers experience. The painting manipulates them and they manipulate the artwork. It is Kafka-like. Everything is changeable and all that is left is visual gluttony. Try to characterize what makes your work specific, wherein lies its force, what makes it different from the work of artists with similar approaches and themes. I believe artistic creations should be spontaneous.
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