Ausstellung
Galerie PANARTE, Vienna, Austria

18. 10. – 10. 11. 2023

Tomáš Polcar (1973) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under such prominent figures of Czech art as Hugo Demartini, Aleš Veselý and Milan Knížák, from whose Studio of Intermedia Art he graduated in 1998. He thinks broadly conceptually and over time he has established several characteristic positions for himself, which he applies in his open cycles Rotting Breeds Living, Atomos, Kyklos and Resonance. He concludes his thought journey in the form of an independently existing image, free from any descriptiveness and epicness, or painting or object. For his objects, he has chosen a raw postcard concrete; in painting, with a few exceptions, he sticks to a palette of white, grey and black shades, moving between purely geometric and expressive expression, which, especially in the paintings of the last few years, meet more and more. In the austere compositions executed on jute in soot black, he treats the materials of the ground and paint in a thoughtful manner, creating often monumental pictographs, relating to the philosophy of the particular art. Through moments of repetition, variation and network/structure building, he freely and newly develops constructive approaches.

Tomáš Polcar does not carry out self-centred probes into his own inner self, but in the end he nevertheless touches his own self, with an emphasis more Jungian than Freudian. Rhythm. Repetition, network. Error. Life. Growth. Disintegration. Once as a bee keeper, he was inspired by the hexagon of the honeycomb cell as a perfect, harmonious formation, a carrier of . On his way to the grove of harmony, the hexagon is both a signpost and an anchor.