Beginning: 18:00
Guided tour of the exhibition Staging with curator Petr Vaňous and the launch of the monograph of Zbyněk Sedlecký.
Zbyněk Sedlecký (*1976, Ostrava) is one of the key artists born in the 1970s who have long been exclusively devoted to the medium of painting. Alongside Josef Bolf, Daniel Pitín and Lubomír Typlt, Sedlecký also manages to capture and develop the contours of a generational feeling, shaped on the one hand by experiences with the totalitarian regime of socialist Czechoslovakia, and on the other by the vibrant period of newly acquired freedom in the 1990s and the consumerist present. As a graduate of the painting studios of Jiří Načeradský and Jiří Sopko, he also builds on the broader foundations of Czech painting, continuously developing and modifying them in the context of new social conditions and in relation to his own memory, static photography, moving images, and the accelerators of visual communication, which today are primarily social networks.
Each of Sedlecký's paintings is, to some extent, an event frozen in time. This moment of suspension unifies and reinterprets the structure of what is seen. The viewer is freed from the automatisms of perception associated with the movement of the body and mind. The freezing of a moving image triggers a different "description" of the event, as it also stops our gaze. Here, the painterly means of expression take their role, modelling the image either as a distant, remote situation or as a close, private, intimate one. And it is precisely these painterly tools that bring a new, distinctly authorial dynamism to the static image, ultimately leading to a rethinking of what we might call classical painting genres.
The exhibition is accompanied by the first partial monograph of Zbyněk Sedlecký, with graphic design by Pavel Tichoň. The editor of the book, which outlines the author's creative development to date, is the exhibition curator Petr Vaňous.
Curator: Petr Vaňous
