Vladimír Kokolia, 2004, Certain Traces, English

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autor textu: Sara Brock

Vladimír Kokolia

bar. katalog Certain Traces, 2004, vyšlo k výstavě: Certain Traces, Museum Kampa, Praha

The lines of color that scramble and overlap in Vladimir Kokolia's paintings create a layered universe of connections and disruptions. They at once find analogue in natural or microcosmic formations as well as technical, digital configurations. A sense of order and geometry is implicit as the kaleidoscopic layers overtake each other, advancing and receding in space. If confusion exists, it is found the vastness of Kokolia's canvases and the complexity suggested in their depth. But the layered structures are also highly emotive. They are tactile, natural and even human structures that escape the edges of the canvas and surround the viever. If the distorted figures in Kokolia's classic drawings could ever find solace from their troubled human condition (unlikely perhaps, they've flowed from his pen tip for years) it might only be within the embrace of his painted universe.

Winner of the 1990 Jindrich Chalupecky Prize, Kokolia graduated from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in Painting in 1981. A techer since 1992 at the Prague Academy, Kokolia's drawings and paintings were featured in numerous Czech and international shows since the late 1980s and had a retrospective at the Brno municipal House of Art in 2003. Kokolia is represented in public and private collection both at home and abroad.