Vladimir Houdek | The Mystery

The image of The Mystery is really a mystery. It is inspired by one of the book titles of the fictitious publishing house Atilis Press and its content changes according to the imagination of viewers. 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 size / in frame:	68 × 48 cm / 72 × 52 cm
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

Frame Frameless Black frame Wooden frame with oak veneer

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The overwhelmed book cover is part of the Atilis Press series, in which Vladimír Houdek created a fictional publishing house and introduced his attractive repertoire of publications. Titles such as Restart, Anatomy of Knowledge, or The Mystery associated with OP-art motifs are also an object and content. In fact, the original model, the cover of the book, nor its content does not actually exist. There is only an image that encourages viewers and viewers to their own imagination and reading between the lines.

Vladimír Houdek (*1984) is one of the most prominent Czech painters. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Vladimír Skrepl. He presented his work at separate and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the Czech Republic and abroad - especially in the German and Austrian environment, but also in New York, Budapest or Sofia. In 2010 he became a laureate of the critics' prize for young painting, two years later the laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. His work is represented in a number of public and private collections, from the National Gallery in Prague to private collections in Washington or Argentina.

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In my work, I have been based on several topics that intertwine and endlessly complement. I do not always close them hermetically, I always try to build on them in some way. One of the main topics is a utopia for me. I do not want to create utopias, but I start from them in my work so that I respond to them differently. One of these motifs is imperfection, or paradoxically the perfection that we people are still trying to do. It is a moment when I realize that the perfection actually destroys us and eats from the inside, but we need it to understand the imperfection. This is the main line for me what creates my belongings - utopia and dystopia.

The image of The Mystery is from the first series of "books". This book edition is called Horizon and I created it from 2020 to 2022. It is a picture that is based on my need to work with a book. I wanted to transform the book somehow. And when we look at this book, we come to a certain paradox. It is that we will never be able to read the book, open it, flip it in it. We are dependent on imagining what "The Mystery" means. What the fictional author wanted to say, write and what content should be. I invented Atilis Press as my own publishing house, based on the word artificialism, which is a Czech direction invented by Jindřich Styria with Toyen. I took the letters from it and that is such a mysterious thing.

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