Bio

A graduate of Ostrava University’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (2005–2010, new media, prof. Jiří Surůvka), Jan Vytiska (*1985) creates paintings within the context of contemporary Czech painting’s specific pop-surrealist tendencies. Inspired by the aesthetics of street art and executed using a meticulous painting technique, his works are a mix of pop culture, updated elements of rural mythology, and folk culture blended with trash fantasy and elements of anthropological research. He invents anthropomorphic monsters that emerge like phantoms from dreamlike art brut worlds of ancient societies. Aesthetically, however, his eerily frightening stories more closely resemble contemporary animated stories for adults. There are moments of violence, visual shock, and scenes of horror. The scenes remain allegorically unreal but imaginatively specific. In 2017, Trafo Gallery published a catalogue of his work titled Paradise.

Artworks

Čerti bědujou / The devils are wailing

akryl na plátně
2016
120 x 180 cm

Černé jezero / Black Lake

akryl na plátně
2016
175 x 120 cm

Obcování / Socializing

akryl na plátně
2012
130 x 220 cm

Všechny ty zlý děti z pokleslejch horůrků / All those bad kids from sleazy horror movies

akryl na plátně
2017
120 x 185 cm

Rozpad mladého muže na konci světa / The breakdown of a young man at the end of the world

akryl na plátně
2017
185 x 110 cm

Interview

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