Matěj Hrbek | Overclouded

A breathtaking universe from crayons. Dive into the clouds of the imagination and color of Matěj Hrbek - one of the most original authors of the contemporary scene. Limited Edition 100pcs, numbered, signed by the author.

Print Technique:	giclée, archive 12 -color pigment print
Paper:	100% cotton paper Hahnemühle Photo RAG 308G
Print dimensions (l):	68 × 48 cm \| 72 × 52 cm (Print \| Frame)
Original:	230 × 152 cm \| crayons on paper buy an original work
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

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Matěj Hrbek (*1988) is the author of deliberate ambivalence, which makes it completely beyond the commonly seen on the artistic scene. Grotesque work? It belongs to it as well as precise craftsmanship, which has something meditative, even spiritual. In a way, Matěj's work is a child's dream exaggerated to the extreme, so the whole altars of plastic and crayons are created. However, they are altars without people, or dehumanized worlds with mythology of prehistoric paintings and patterns, comic book stories, or worlds with tension and dynamics of artistic directions of the past centuries.

Matěj Hrbek studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts under the leadership of Milan Knížák, later Vladimír Skrepl (2011–17), while he also completed his internship in Rio de Janeiro (2015). In addition to the drawing and the building, he also focuses on graphics and, in addition to fine art, poetry and occasionally curatorism (in 2017–19 he led the stolen gallery). The exhibition is active not only in the Czech Republic, but also abroad, especially in Germany and Spain. In our country, for example, had an independent exhibition in HYB4 Gallery (Gray, 2021) or collective in Bold Gallery (Ma_Scary, 2024). It is a former resident of Pragovka and is in the collections both Klatovy Klenová Gallery and for example the Investment Fund for Arte.

Text: Jan Čejka

More information on the web: Matejhrbek.com, or on Instagram.

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Matěj Hrbek for 100pcs

Having a head in the clouds, being overwhelmed with thoughts, getting lost in fog or finding yourself in a place so living and noisy that one can't hear your own voice. In addition, the overclouded, drawing on paper in the original in the original, can be referred to almost two and a half meters high, which is all out with crayons. For Matěj Hrbek it is one of the key images created by this technique. Why? Because there is a large universe here. It's not an outline, it's an area. It is an inflated atmosphere of clouds or comic bubbles. Matěj does not look at the crayon as a banal technique of unworthy big things. On the contrary, she pays tribute, both the most powerful weapon - in color, and touches the childhood of anyone who immerses into the clouds.

Lyrics: Jan Čejka