Martin Kuriš / Entrenched in his immediate surroundings

Martin Kuriš is a painter, but also a woodcutter and the author of puppet theater plays. In all his areas of activity, Martin Kuriš (1973) – a storyteller at heart – remains a somewhat exotic phenomenon. His entire body of work is infused with a sense of mystery. Most of his works of art are figure paintings, although he occasionally works with landscapes as well. He lives in the Sudetenland, a beautiful and harsh landscape marked by postwar expulsion that remains socially depressed to this day. He paints the region's meadows, wetlands, and hedgerows, its forbidding winters and dilapidated houses, and it is into this setting that he places his balladic and socially tinged stories. The landscape also yields him the wood for his sculptures. The exhibition presents all areas of Kuriš's work in their full poetic nature.