Jakub Tytykalo Jakub Tytykalo

Kurt sunbathing - ORIGINAL

The painting by this prominent Czech artist is built upon a structurally graphic composition and focused work with line. The blending of drawing, spray paint, and stencils creates a tension between precisely defined shapes and softer, freely diffusing areas. The resulting scene acts as a visual journey through a landscape on the edge of reality and internal worlds, in which archetypal images deeply embedded beneath the surface of personal memory emerge.

  • Kurt sunbathing, 120 x 170 cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2024
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Jakub Tytykalo

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Jakub Tytykalo

Jakub Tytykalo (nar. 1984), absolvoval v l. 2008 – 2014 AVU v Praze (Ateliér Grafika I, Škola prof. Jiřího Lindovského; Ateliér Kresby, Škola Jiřího Petrboka; Ateliér Socha I, Škola Jaroslava Róny). 

Pro autorovu práci je charakteristické grafické členění obrazové plochy, smysl pro nalézání kresebných novotvarů, střídání výrazových technik (sprej, šablona), používání kontrastních forem a sjednocená, zpravidla monochromně laděná barevnost. Tytykalovy obrazy jako by vystupovaly zároveň z minulosti a zároveň z podvědomí. Předměty a figury jsou tu podány ve zvláštní „tekutosti“ a „bezčasí“, které tak zpřítomňují podmanivě snové scény s odkazy na „básnické obrazy“ a exotické ráje.

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Jakub Tytykalo for 100 pcs

Tytykala's painting moves on the border between formal ambiguity and recognizable motifs, without leaning decisively toward pure abstraction or descriptiveness. The objects and figures in his paintings acquire a peculiar inner gravity, supported by a specific treatment of color that carries echoes of a dreamlike and slightly archaic visual language. These qualities subtly refer to the tradition of imaginative painting in Southern Europe, without directly citing it.

The artist's work features body fragments, still lifes, landscape motifs, and contemporary urban situations. Their composition is economical, based on the layering of shapes and a muted palette reminiscent of the analytical procedures of early modernism. Unlike the rational deconstruction of reality, however, Tytykala does not strive to analyze the visible world—his paintings emerge rather as mental constructions where matter serves imagination and mood.

Combining acrylic painting with spray paint allows him to connect painterly tradition with the expressive lightness and hyperbole of the contemporary visual environment, where galleries and the street naturally intertwine.

Kurt sunbathing - ORIGINAL · click to enlarge