Jakub Matuška (Masker)

Jakub Matuška, a graduate of the Painting Studio of Vladimír Skrepl at the Academy of Sciences of Prague and under the name of Masker, a former graffiti scene, has moved in a sovereign mature painter in recent years.

The paintings often hides deep thoughts related to both individual life and social conflicts. Everyday events get a mythical form under the author's hand. Seemingly simple -looking scenes often contain complicated intersection of shapes that can turn the originally exposed meaning in its opposite. The small drawing sketches that the author records on the basis of his ideas are becoming a starting point for future paintings. They are many times enlarged without losing their original energy and atmosphere.

Matuška's work is based on a peculiar technique combining spontaneity of the proprietary drawing, digital preparation on the iPad screen and the freedom of the painting itself. Its hobby of digital art successfully connects with the painting tradition of the old masters of the Gothic or Renaissance, as well as representatives of the avant -garde directions of the early 20th century. Jakub Matuška became the finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2010, and a year later he won the 333 National Gallery in Prague. Today it has a number of independent and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, at the same time it is represented in a number of private collections.