Zbyněk Sedlecký (*1976, Ostrava) is one of the key artists born in the 1970s who have long been devoted exclusively 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 through his paintings, the ground plan of which is formed by his experience of the totalitarian regime of socialist Czechoslovakia on the one hand, and the vibrant period of newly acquired freedom in the 1990s and the consumerist present on the other. As a graduate of the painting studios of Jiří Načeradský and Jiří Sopek, Sedlecky also builds on the broader foundations of Czech painting, continuously developing and modifying them in new social conditions and in relation to his own memory, to static photography, to the moving image and to the accelerators of visual communication, which today are primarily social networks.
Each of Sedlecky's paintings is to some extent an event frozen in time. The moment of suspension unifies and reassesses the structure of what is seen. The viewer is freed from the automatisms of perception that are associated with the movement of the body and consciousness. The stopping of the moving image initiates a different "description" of the event, as it stops our vision as well. Here, the painterly means of expression take their role, which, in accordance with the author's intention, model the image as either a distant, remote situation or a close, private, intimate one. And it is precisely these painterly means that bring a new, purely authorial dynamism to the static image, which ultimately leads to a rethinking of what we might call classical painting genres.
The exhibition is accompanied by the first partial monograph by Zbyněk Sedlecky in a graphic design by Pavel Tichon. The editor of the book, which presents the creative development of the artist so far, is the curator of the exhibition, Petr Vaňous.
Curator.Zbyněk Sedlecký: Guided Tour and Monograph Launch
