Vladimir Houdek | Without a name

A three -dimensional star sailing after a cleaned chessboard in the world of optical illnesses - until we get our eyes. 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 × 54 cm / 72 × 58 cm
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

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Work: without name, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2016-2017, 180 × 140 cm

The three -dimensional starfish on the chessyard background plays a fascinating game with our senses - the object so massive that it almost stands out of the canvas, and at the same time light as a snowflake. The bevelled chessboard completes the OP-art invitation to interact-it looks as if it is just a cut out of the endless space of optical illnesses, which we can dive and see how the three-dimensional shapes float until it moves.

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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Vladimir Houdek for 100pcs

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.

This painting from 2016 - 2017 is not called as many of my other paintings. In this series I worked with an OP-art background and I incorporated the so-called realistic element. The OP-art background was to resemble a certain misinformation, a certain cluster of information that came to us, but we can't decode them. And a realistic element should show some certainty, but also uncertainty. There are a lot of paradoxes. I came out a lot from Dadaist thinking, when there is reality, unrealistic, irrationality, rationality.

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