David Böhm - Venus

If they lived in the 19th century, Jiří Franta would probably be a open -air player and David Böhm portraitist. The drawings of landscapes that come from Jirka's trips to Kokořínsko and Černošice was planted by David Venus, and perhaps outlined the connection between the female principle / fertility / motherhood and landscape, ancient ties, mystical archetypes. But there are also scissors (time?), Which may be cutting the umbilical cord or, on the contrary, make a mask for a kind of art carnival. All of this is not a reality, but the backdrop that someone painted, or even just clicking on the iPhone.

Jiří Franta (*1978) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the Antonín Střížek and Vladimír Skrepl studios between 2001 and 2007. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Rafani Art Group, he has been an assistant in the studio of Painting II at Favu Brno and together with Jiří Skála founded and led the Gallery ETC in Prague.

David Böhm (*1982) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the studios of Vladimír Kokolia and Vladimír Skrepl in 2003 - 2009. In 2021 he completed a doctoral program here. Since 2022, the studio of graphics also leads to Prague Academy of Sciences. He completed a semestral internship at Faculdade de Belas Artes Universidade da Universidade to Porto in Portugal. He has been combining work in the artistic pair of Jiří Franta and David Böhm since their studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. They presented their work at a number of exhibitions, in publications and as part of the site-specific projects in the Czech Republic and abroad, in 2009, 2010 and 2021 the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Awards were finalists.

Karina Kottová, curator