Opening of the exhibitionVojtěch Horálek - Venuses and Backswimmers
- marketa311
- Jun 24
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June 12th, 2025, from 6 PM to 10 PM
ojtěch Horálek's paintings show the bodies of athletes or bathing beauties emerging like inflatable flamingos from the surface of a pond. The sewn padded figures emerge plastically from the surface of the painting and with their materialisation disturb the peaceful atmosphere of leisure, as if were demonstrating the clash between the world known and close on the one hand and the vaguely distant on the other. After all, when the holiday is over, we must return to reality. Or is it the other way around and the illusion is our everyday life?
Vojtěch Horálek (* 1983) is a graduate of Michael Rittstein's painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (2010). Since 2011 he has been teaching at the Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 2012 he was a finalist of the NG 333 award. He has been exhibiting independently since 2009. His solo exhibitions include exhibitions at the František Drtikol Gallery in Příbram (2015), the Critics Gallery in Prague (2019), GASK in Kutná Hora (2020), Off/format Gallery in Brno (2022). His works are represented in the GVU in Litoměřice, COLLETT Prague | Munich and many othercollections.
author of the text and curator: Martina Mrázová
Exhibition runs from June 13th to July 27th, 2025.
Link to FB event: HERE
I was a student at the opening of Vojtěch Horálek’s "Venuses and Backswimmers," and I was particularly drawn to the atmospheric representation of athletes and bathing beauties popping up on the water like inflatable flamingos. The exhibition is a good meditation on the contradiction of leisure and reality. When pondering projects in connection to such work, I often consult a trusted essay writing agency to articulate these ideas coherently.