Since 1995 and my public art work of Prague, CZECH FLAG, I make my painting and art work dependent of the interactivity with THE OTHER, the collaborative and interactive involvement with the spectator, user, protagonist of my art work.

The production as well as the presence of the artwork inherits the space for THE OTHER.

I share the intimate moment of creation, the intuitive psychic space of my artistic personality with the protagonist/model I work with, either in the intimacy of the studio or in the public space with the general public. The sharing of authority can be compared to the collaboration between the movie director and the actor, who develop an intimate complicity to achieve the artistic formulation of the character and the movie product. Hence I develop a research and preparation period with the “Model” – often him/her self artist, performer, sometimes people from the general public without any art experience – in regards to the content of the work to achieve. The Model chosen for the collaboration, as it is true for the actor, is chosen in regards to his/her qualities of personality and ability of identification with the content of the work. Sometimes the personality of a protagonist will lead to the choice of the content of the work and determine the direction the work will take.

This especially true for my new work XANADU (2011/2012), which is interrogating the universal language of dream and the collective timeless memory of humankind. The condition of the work will be determined by the dreams of the chosen protagonists.

For the creation process this delivery to the other of my own intention is a great artistic and personal risk, for it involves the intimacy of my whole artistic self-perception and existential reality of my person. But this danger, like while falling, frees from the determination of preconceived ideas and emotions or associations which would hinder the appearance of the presence of the content in the work. Thus the exposure to danger is important for the authenticity of the work and the form it may achieve, sometimes even determining the reality of the presence of the content.

Naturally my work is not an expression or representation of mere personal thoughts, emotions or philosophies. It is not meant to represent an ideology or manifest my autocrat authorship.  My artwork is the creation of the presence of a new approach to social and self-perception in regards to a precise content, which may be inspired from social or individual psychic and existential realities.

This creation process allows the artwork to invite the spectator/user to enter the world of content and accomplish the artwork by his own associative intuitive world, which is free of the limits of my own possible preconception as an artist. Actually myself as the spectator of my own work often experience and realise a larger reality, as I had actually been aware of during the preparation to the creation process. The work thus inherits a timeless evolutive factor.

The causal body of an object or subject is to me as important as the physical body shape, this in regards to the artworks realised as well as the materials, process and personalities involved in their realisation. The awareness of the causal body is the perception of the quality of the totality of the historical, creational, psychic attributes of a subject or object. This constitutes energy like colour or form or texture. Thus all medias, materials, objects and subjects involved in the creation of the artwork bring in this energy which has to be taken in account and is used as means of formulation.

I do not situate my artwork in an art historical or art theoretical context, which I believe is sometimes rising interesting questions and propositions of reflection, but are not of relevance and determination to the creation process of the contemporary artist. The occidental views and conceptions in this regard I mostly find artificial with the sole purpose of determining art market related needs (branding) or creating scientific specifications, to determine objective values for subjective realities, subordinate the individual experience to the collective system.  Art happens in the intimacy of both, the creator and the perceiver.

The performances, movies and installation works all develop from these basic principles of work and understanding of art.

Please also see text on painting here and the individual conceptions to the various projects.