Pre – Painting

 

Pre – Painting

A pre-painting as I see it is literally a “painting in front of the painting”. The colour is physically separated from the base. It touches it only at the minimum number of points, creating an illusion of levitation. My aim is to grant the painting a symbolic autonomy, independence from the background.

It should also be emphasised that it is still a painting and not an object, even though the painting itself has a three-dimensional character. It is a painting because it still conforms to the conventions of a painting. 1/

 

Leon, 2008, 150×170×20 cm silikon na plátně, detail z interiéru z filmu Leon

The actual paint on the painting is located in a certain marginal space. It wants to be physically autonomous, but it cannot rid itself of its original identity without ceasing to be a painting and becoming an object, a sculpture.

 

Green mile, 2008, 150 × 170 × 20 cm silicone on canvas

This intermediate state is the starting point for the selection of themes and motifs that synthesise forms of 20th-century modernist painting in a simple “universal” style. This in turn has absorbed Impressionist gestures, expressive ferocity, abstraction, the intangibility of Informel, the absurdity of Dada, the Surrealist subconscious, the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism, the artifice of Conceptualism, as well as Postmodern eclecticism, in the thick monochromatic substance of paint.

 

Documentation of Aivazovsky, 2008, 150×170×20 cm, silicone on canvas

1/ It is neither a collage, because it does not consist of various elements, nor a relief, because it is assumed that it is homogeneous with its base. On top of that, it is a painting “made” from the monochromatic substance of paint. It is not a mock-up painting.