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Painting on canvas by Jakub Tomas

The joint exhibition of Martin Skalický and Jakub Tomáš presents sculpture and painting work of two different artistic personalities, however, whose creative processes are approaching in a number of aspects. Both authors step out of reality records in their work and at the same time use post-production strategies that break down, deconstruct and overlay the original themes. Both have their own playfulness, humor and interest in physical "handicraft" work with materials that precede the resulting works themselves. The final paintings and sculptures have a distinctive visual appeal, but at the same time they contain moments of ambivalence, an irritating unpleasant feeling of belonging and uncertainty. Reality plays only a representative role here, it is mediated, according to the terms of the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard becomes a simulac, in which the picture is finally more real than his proposal. The meta works admitly appear to be recoded and reveal a painting and sculptural illusion. They are playing with the question: "What is reality in art?" “