Petr Pavlík – Pilgrim in trouble
8. 9. 2022 -
22. 10. 2022
Paintings and drawings by an important Czech artist, co-founder of the group "12/15 Late but still!", devoted to the motif of the pilgrim, a symbolic-mythical figure in which is hidden a simile of the life pilgrimage of each of us.
P. Pavlík, co-founder of "Volného sskupéní 12/15 - Pozde ale prêce!" belongs to the most original Czech painters of today; at the same time, he has been devoted to the theory and criticism of visual arts for a long time. His current exhibition loosely follows on from the project of the same name, which was prepared last year by the Karlovy Vary Gallery for the Gallery of Fine Arts in Hodonín. The exhibition selection is based on works from the artist's property, which are complemented by paintings from the collections of several public and private galleries. The beginnings of his painting were characterized by an imaginary environment with formations evoking stones, boulders or rocks. Soon, autonomous linear structures and abstract morphology began to assert themselves in his paintings. Since the turn of the 60s and 70s of the last century, the artist has been dealing with the motif of the pilgrim: this mysterious symbolically-mythical figure also walks in later paintings, drawings and graphics in various contexts and in many forms. It is a symbolic representation of the mother, the author's early perception, when the mother was saying goodbye to him and going "somewhere". "We don't know where she's coming from and where she's going, and why, yet we have no doubt that her journey has a deep meaning. It is a parable of the life journey of each of us." (P. Pavlík) The artist examines, edits, reshoots and repaints many of his paintings again and again. The exhibition also presents a unique method of repainting a reproduction of the author's painting - he originally developed this principle in a series of apocalyptic themes. Such a unique way of recycling or reinterpreting one's own work completely corresponds to Pavlík's approach to the creative process.
The Zlata Husa Gallery lent Pavlík's work The Open Door (1977 - 1978).
P. Pavlík, co-founder of "Volného sskupéní 12/15 - Pozde ale prêce!" belongs to the most original Czech painters of today; at the same time, he has been devoted to the theory and criticism of visual arts for a long time. His current exhibition loosely follows on from the project of the same name, which was prepared last year by the Karlovy Vary Gallery for the Gallery of Fine Arts in Hodonín. The exhibition selection is based on works from the artist's property, which are complemented by paintings from the collections of several public and private galleries. The beginnings of his painting were characterized by an imaginary environment with formations evoking stones, boulders or rocks. Soon, autonomous linear structures and abstract morphology began to assert themselves in his paintings. Since the turn of the 60s and 70s of the last century, the artist has been dealing with the motif of the pilgrim: this mysterious symbolically-mythical figure also walks in later paintings, drawings and graphics in various contexts and in many forms. It is a symbolic representation of the mother, the author's early perception, when the mother was saying goodbye to him and going "somewhere". "We don't know where she's coming from and where she's going, and why, yet we have no doubt that her journey has a deep meaning. It is a parable of the life journey of each of us." (P. Pavlík) The artist examines, edits, reshoots and repaints many of his paintings again and again. The exhibition also presents a unique method of repainting a reproduction of the author's painting - he originally developed this principle in a series of apocalyptic themes. Such a unique way of recycling or reinterpreting one's own work completely corresponds to Pavlík's approach to the creative process.
The Zlata Husa Gallery lent Pavlík's work The Open Door (1977 - 1978).