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contemporary artists in la Biennale di Venezia issue DESTINY OF COMET, 2017 OIL ON CANVAS 70X90 CM.
A GOOD CATCH, 2018 OIL ON CANVAS 70X90 CM.

THE MIRROR, 2016 OIL ON CANVAS 70X90 CM.

OTAKAR HUDECEK
Lives and works in Prerov, Moravia, Czech Republic
http://www.otakarhudecek.com/

A new planet Otakar: It seems that in some personalities, there A moment resembling this sensation arises only in the level of
are forces pulsing, capable to blow into fantastic distances of imagination. And color is able to express such contiguity.”
millions of light years and yet remain on Earth, on the Earth of The play with the message of the planetary coloring is,
foolish desires and vain expectations, seducing and moving us. in fact, a dialogue with the painting. “I start it like a kind
Light is one of those forces, composed from miraculous rosace of battle, not knowing how it will fall out. It is a matter of
of colors. “It is winter now,” writes Otakar Hudecek, “and colors intuition. Only sometimes, I have a certain idea..., but an
are appearing somewhere inside man and he is able to see element of something unimaginable, imperceptible always
them outside only if he has them in him.” creeps in.” Color events are forming, suggesting the unity
of universe. A great revelation of generative spontaneity is
And it is just him who discovered a planet of colorful growing by superposition of contrast color forms and contact
wanderings, his second world that he can invoke by painting representations.
thanks to his imagination and a rare dramatic temper. It has
hardly anything in common with the refuges of an arcadic The preserve of Eros volcanically explodes; color cascades are
idyll. They emanate from symbolic configurations, from their spilling over the threshold of consciousness. The mixture of
gemstone drift and they are born by surges of anthroposophic the sensual and the imaginative, the more of the unspeakable
oceans or hiding among coral reefs of dreams. it swallows, the more it is raving in puzzles, while heading to
“The phenomenon of dream always personally fascinates the depths of color secrets. - The dialogue with the painting is
me,” says Hudecek.”It is the position of dream which fits with taking on the organ polyphony. An inebriant, liberating delight
my creation. I am not interested in objects that I can see in a is blending with a threatening signification. Are current threats
dream, but rather in the sensation which is behind them. And and anxieties encrypted here? Moreover, in a language of
in expressing it in color! You forget the plot of the dream, but a colors escaping our comprehension...
sensation for which there are no words remains. (Dr. Arsén Pohribny, Darmstadt)

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