Jonáš Czesaný / EX-POST-IN

White unicorn gallery in Klatovy
29. 6. - 1. 9. 2019

Jonáš Czesaný (1972), a graduate of the post-communist Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (where he studied painting under František Hodonský, and graphic arts under Vladimír Kokolia), is a member of that generation of artists that emerged on the Czech art scene in the 1990s. Czesaný's works have the character of randomly discovered associations of memory that emerge during the painting process. Sometimes these associations merely pass one another, fade, and disappear; at other times, they are caught and developed into a clean and crystalline form, or they metamorphose into more universal evocations and messages. These objective states, specific objects, or physical constellations (including old photographs or newspaper illustrations) provoke and awaken our memory.