Vojtěch Kovařík
Healing Fruits, 2023
acrylic and sand on canvas
acrílica e areia sobre tela
acrílica e areia sobre tela
250 x 200 x 6 cm
98 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 2 3/8 in
98 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 2 3/8 in
Fully embracing figuration, Vojtech presents a large painting full of his artistic personality in Linhas Tortas. His interest in Greek mythology and modern sculpture leads the painting to a sculptural...
Fully embracing figuration, Vojtech presents a large painting full of his artistic personality in Linhas Tortas. His interest in Greek mythology and modern sculpture leads the painting to a sculptural quality that comes from its attention to the gesture. Kovařík’s tone sways ambiguously between violence and silliness. His giant, flagrantly flaunting their masculinity, become caricatures, ridiculous objects of curiosity. His purposeful exaggeration of human anatomy creates a sense of honesty and naïveté, questioning the traditional notion of physical strength and power.