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Svatopluk Klimeš - Forest glittering in the crystals

Welcome to the opening of the exhibition of the Czech artist  Svatopluk Klimeš on Wed 24 April 2019. This time the Embassy Gallery presents work of a respected Czech artist Svatopluk Klimeš whose pictures are characteristic by the use of fire. You can visit the Embassy Gallery during the working days after previous appointment (tel 0961208812) until 30 September 2019.

Nature, Myths and Freedom of Creation

Svatopluk Klimeš is one of the most important artists of the older generation who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in the 1970s during so-called “normalization” (period after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies which ended the Prague Spring). Maybe it is not appropriate to emphasize this fact any more after so many years but it is still a significant milestone for the artists who experienced this period.
Working with fire and experimenting with atypical materials became a starting point for Klimeš, i.a. as a defence of the freedom of artistic creativity. To some extent, the alchemical approach to creative activity resembles hermetic attempts to explore the world that surrounds us. It is also the ancient recognition of elementary elements: fire, water, air and earth from which everything is formed. This philosophy which has a thousand-year-old tradition, frees the stereotype thinking from the sediments of time and is the foundation of Klimeš' artistic independence. Klimeš' sense of humor and playfulness at work is the proof of that.
He likes to work and find new approaches through experimenting, successful or not, the way characteristic for the alchemists and modern shamans. He is not afraid to fail because he is aware that failure reveals new connections of things and new possibilities of creative processes. With broadminded playfulness Svatopluk still maintains aesthetic sensitivity, a wide perspective, an unique personality and a humane view of the rapidly changing world.
The exhibition of Svatopluk Klimeš presents a selection of his recent works which are loosely connected through the theme of nature, climate change and records of journeys to Finland; topics that are familiar to the Finnish spectator. Svatopluk offers them to us as a visitor to the country, as a sensitive artist and a person who has a personal relationship with this country.

Petr Řehoř/curator

Zahájení výstavy obrazů Svatopluka Klimeše

Zahájení výstavy obrazů Svatopluka Klimeše

Zahájení výstavy obrazů Svatopluka Klimeše

Zahájení výstavy obrazů Svatopluka Klimeše

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Svatopluk Klimeš Exhibition