ZbyněK Havlín

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Zbyněk Havlín, an established representative of the contemporary middle generation of artists, presents here a representative selection of his paintings from 2013-2022. It is a series of abstracted landscape paintings, which form an interesting counterbalance to the author’s figurative and more conceptually oriented creation emerging in parallel. Havlín’s shift to landscapes can be seen as a visceral evocation of the environment in which he grew up - a gamekeeper’s cottage, surrounded by woods and meadows - and also as an expression of spontaneous, sheer joy from creating and from life unencumbered with hidden meanings.

The author brings a very fresh perspective to the landscape motifs - he captures sceneries that he has fallen in love with and which left a profound experience of sensual enchantment within him. However, he does not paint in the open air. He creates what he calls landscapes “from memory”. The resulting image thus resides within the realm of reminiscence and free imagination. The vision of nature moves beyond any descriptiveness and passive record of observation. The author liberates the landscape from “non-essentia...

Education:

1998 - 2004: Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague 2004: Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Studio of Milan Knížák (intermedial art), studio award.

Postgraduate study:

2014 - 2017 PhD Art studies, Academy of Fine Arts Prague

Other Studies and Scholarships:
1994 - 1997: Vaclav Hollar Hight School of Art, Prague (Graphic Design) 2002: Erasmus-scholarship, The University of Aberdeen (Sculpture and Design studio), GB 2003: Scholarship for the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (Sculpture studio, Judy Fox) 2003: International Multimedia Symposium in Košice (Slovakia) 2006: International project Cauliflower, Orangerie Počernice, Prague

Solo Shows (selection)

2018 The letter of the nature, Gallery Vltavín, Prague (with Marie Ladrová);
2017 Hear grass growing, Rabasova galerie Rakovník (with Jan Kovářík)
2016 H2O,The Makráč Gallery-Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry CAS, Prague
2015 Addicted to the Beauty of Landscape, Bank Era svět, Prague
Crossing lines, Gallery ArtAtak, Prague (with Jaroslav Valečka)
Typology of Dryads, Gallery U Bílého jednorožce, Klatovy CZ (with Paulina Skavova)
2014 Landscape Encounter, Michal´s Collection Art Gallery Prague (with Jaroslav Valečka)
Luxury Paradise, Gallery Kotelna, Říčany - Prague (with Paulina Skavova)
Landscapes, Michal´s Collection Art Gallery Prague (with Jan Wolfchen Vlček)
2013 Addicted to Beauty, Gallery Uffo Trutnov, CZ
Hybrid Landscapes, Michal´s Collection Art Gallery Prague (with Jan Wolfchen Vlček)
2012 Soft Vision, Gallery Michal’s Collection, Prague
2010 Lost in context, Young Austrian Art Gallery, Vienna (with Cristina Fiorenza)
2008 EgoLand, Government of the Czech Republic, Prague
2004 Performance around menhirs - photo series, University Aberdeen - Faculty of Fine Arts UK
2006 Alles Walzer, Gallery Raab, Berlin
1999 Jablanica, Gallery...