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CREATION OF FRANTIŠEK MATOUŠEK IN THE DOX CENTRE
DOX CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Osadní 793/34, Praha 7 - Holešovice, PRAHA
Osadní 793/34, Praha 7 - Holešovice, PRAHA
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First comprehensive overview of creation of one of the most appreciable painters of the middle-age generation in our country.
Just like many Czech and foreign artists of his generation Matoušek often osculates the subject of memory. Doing that, however, he uses markedly personal and specific methods, evident in selection of materials or painting techniques. Matoušek paints on denim, i.e. on cotton fabric whose origin is coded in the actual name of the material (taking rise from Nîmes, i.e. de Nîmes). The chosen material in Matoušek's case, however, does not refer to old European history but to the rather recent period of real socialism, i.e. the time when Matoušek was growing up and when denim symbolised the hunger for free life. Matoušek developed a special technique for work with this textile lying in combination of woven chaine and acrylic pigment.
Matoušek's painting style further consists in his specific approach to various genres that he works with – to portraits, landscape, town exterior or intimate interior scenes from family life. Crucial point is the way in which Matoušek uses the photographic and other pictorial sources which is clearly visible in his portraits. For example in a painting based upon an old family photography he dresses the woman in the portrait to a jean jacket; another portrait can – by its conception – remind of the Picasso's Blue Period though it is not the author's intention, not in the least the will to quote a specific work of art. We could say that Matoušek works here with a method of iconographic sandwiches; even more suitable metaphor to describe the author's pictorial procedure is the process of memory linking collective and individual experience in an ever new and non-repetitive way.
Just like many Czech and foreign artists of his generation Matoušek often osculates the subject of memory. Doing that, however, he uses markedly personal and specific methods, evident in selection of materials or painting techniques. Matoušek paints on denim, i.e. on cotton fabric whose origin is coded in the actual name of the material (taking rise from Nîmes, i.e. de Nîmes). The chosen material in Matoušek's case, however, does not refer to old European history but to the rather recent period of real socialism, i.e. the time when Matoušek was growing up and when denim symbolised the hunger for free life. Matoušek developed a special technique for work with this textile lying in combination of woven chaine and acrylic pigment.
Matoušek's painting style further consists in his specific approach to various genres that he works with – to portraits, landscape, town exterior or intimate interior scenes from family life. Crucial point is the way in which Matoušek uses the photographic and other pictorial sources which is clearly visible in his portraits. For example in a painting based upon an old family photography he dresses the woman in the portrait to a jean jacket; another portrait can – by its conception – remind of the Picasso's Blue Period though it is not the author's intention, not in the least the will to quote a specific work of art. We could say that Matoušek works here with a method of iconographic sandwiches; even more suitable metaphor to describe the author's pictorial procedure is the process of memory linking collective and individual experience in an ever new and non-repetitive way.
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