Vaclav Misar

''When we observe Václav’s paintings, we might recall the eye-catching shadows and illusive overlapping plans in De Chirico’s early work, and think of the quiet, diffused light in Morandi’s paintings.

His pictures are impressions, individual visions, that seem familiar to us. We might have dreamt of this, we might want to dream of that. What is certain is that the light, space and atmospheres evoke a tension that exists in all of us, a tension that we try to resist or deny by day, but which comes back at night to swallow us all the more.
A silent, in nite and unappeasable tension. The indifference of Nature.
The sun rises, the sun sets.

The sun is at the centre, not Man, and what we do, or don’t do, is irrelevant. Václav might suggest that we embrace what we are and what we are not, that we slowly but surely desert false pretences and conventions, and surrender to the terrible beauty that runs in our veins.
He sketches, frantically draws, then laboriously paints atmospheres and scenes, which murmur like the wind, lonely ballads, deserter’s songs, longing for an elsewhere; which cry like the rain, anxieties of deluge, fantasies of overflow, desires of shipwreck; which stay silent, like fallen leaves covering the imprints o...

*1984

Studies
2005-2011 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studio of Jiří­ Sopko
2010 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studio of Jan Merta (internship)
2010 ENSA Bourges, France

Separate exhibitions
2017 “Oh, Red Currant!” Nau Gallery, Prague
2015 “Nuts and Cherries” Nau Gallery, Prague
2013 “8 Kilograms” Nau Gallery, Prague
2012 “Compositions” The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2011 “Sunset” Salve Art Gallery, Leipzig

Group exhibitions
2014 “Cena kritiků” Galerie kritiků, Prague
2013 “Misař, Horyna, Sýkora” OGV, Jihlava
2012 “Saint Vincent European Art”, Valle d’Aosta, Italia
2012 “Lights and shadows” Prague house, Brussels
2011 “Diplomky” The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2009, 2010 “Best of klausury” The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2008 “Misař / Absolon” The Chemistry Gallery, Prague

Awards
2012 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague Rector’s Award