TThe exhibition Colour Gardens recalls one of the significant stages of the artistic development of the painter Zdeněk Sýkora (1920–2011) who we primarily know as the author of structures and lines. Galerie Zdeněk Sklenář is exhibiting the painter‘ cycle Gardens which includes the collection of artworks from 1959–1961. The paintings illustrate the artist’s transition from a realistic depiction of nature towards abstract compositions which later evolved into structures.
The author of the exhibition, Lenka Sýkorová, emphasises that the paintings from the Gardens cycle represent the culmination of Sýkora’s landscape work from the 1950s and that they are the proof of his colourist talent and at the same time, they form the confirmation of his further heading towards abstraction and the condition for finding his own way.

  On display at the exhibition: our loan
Garden
1960
Oil on jute
98 x 70 cm