Pre – Painting
A pre-painting in my concept is literally a “paint in front of the painting”. The color is physically separated from the basis. It touches it only in the minimum number of points, creating an illusion of levitation. My aim is to give the painting a symbolic autonomy, independence from the background.
It is also necessary to emphasize that it is still a matter of a painting and not an object, even though painting itself has a three-dimensional character. It is a painting because it still retains its conventions. 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 get rid of its original identity without having ceased to be a painting and becoming an object, a sculpture.
Zelená míle, 2008, 150×170×20 cm silikon na plátně
This intermediate state is the starting point for the selection of themes and motifs that synthesize forms of 20th-century modernist painting in a simple “universal” style, which in thick monochromatic matter of paint 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.
Dokumentace Aivazovského, 2008, 150×170×20 cm, silikon na plátně
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 basis. On top of that, it is a painting “made” from the monochromatic matter of paint. It is not a mock-up painting.