Zbynek Havlin's Profile

From: Czech Republic
Joined: February 04, 2008
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About zbynek:

born 1976 in Prague (lives and works in Vienna and Prague)

education: 1998 - 2004 Academy of Fine Arts Prague (Other Studies and Scholarships: Austria, Great Britain)

...focuses on painting, object, photo, video, performance and installation, working with the culture clichés and heritage of small states in the middle of europe. He is reflecting a point of view in which we see, or we want to see our-selves. In the longer term he is trying to find out rituals of today („Between man“, „sink into the earth “), to specify them and to find for it an adequate visual form. In the past there were projects in which he was using for example just water as a material (family tree), food like whipping cream (Wedding dress) or sunflower seeds and beef fat (Self-portrait masks), the movement of the body - performance, smell („Taking smell“), text or music in the video.
The paitings from this year are like stopped in time and they are asking for the attention which is typical for icons. There is crossing what is in and out. This combination of landscape and still-life is to be understood as a metaphor for losing the border between inside and outside. The casual arrangement of the composition has always an important connection with the main form – usually with the figure. There is a game about classical modern aesthetic which is growing over to postmodernism. Also the frozen position of the composition gives a deeper sense, which is producing a feeling of some familiar archetype, held on memory like the feeling of home, beauty, safeness...etc. His objects are working with some kind of contemporary totemism. He is painting over them, to mix the second and third dimension. These aspects are also connecting the object with the paintings.

www.zbynekhavlin.net