Painting Bits

Painting Bits are essentially small paintings about the size of a human palm. They are canvases used to test or implement simple basic painting strokes, which can in themselves define an interesting change in the approach to painting or painting technique. The paint used is a “non-color” – either white or a paste resembling dirt. There is usually just one brushstroke applied once on an autonomous canvas. That brushstroke resembles the initial letter A. It is like with some species of birds which use only one tone while singing, and yet they are able to express many shades of diverse emotions and convey countless pieces of information to each other. Therefore, other letters are intentionally omitted. The artist works only with variations of one letter and with the presentation of its unusual configurations.

Some of the brushstrokes look as if there was acid in the non-colored painting, etching the canvas. Elsewhere, the viewer gets the impression that the artist has attacked the canvas with too much inadequate force. Other brushstrokes levitate in front of the canvas or rather flow out of it.

 

Structural composition, 2015, variable dimensions, silicone and acrylic on canvas and board, Vaňkovka gallery

It is also possible to see brushstrokes whose beginning is applied to the canvas, but whose end is outside the canvas, and sometimes very far from it. Such brushstrokes encourage interaction with other paintings or random objects in the gallery. It is this type of painting that serves to organize paintings into systems, structures, compositions, assemblies and sometimes even into looser flocks or groups, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overflow, 2006, 6 x 7 x 3 cm, acrylic on canvas and board