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Jan Šerých
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"...what is the tolerable degree of skepticism from the failure of one's own language that can be communicated through art?"
Jan Šerých's paintings, objects and videos function as conceptual trompe-l’oeil. He has created a formal abstract language derived from geometric tendencies in painting and typography. He deforms constructivist aesthetics, presenting characters depleted of significance. Symmetrical geometric or typographic shapes are exposed as multi-purpose covers meant for recycling and obsessional observations. Šerých both simulates and mocks self-imposed rules and aesthetics, creating his own personal system of organized distance.
Text courtesy of VVP-AVU (Center for the Study of the Visual Arts at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts)
Jan Šerých: Subjective Patterns of Consumption
by Vit Havranek, Umelec 1/2004
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Jan Šerých was born in 1972 in Prague. He studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts from 1992 – 1998 in the studios of print-making (J. Lindovský), new media (M. Bielický) and painting (V. Skrepl). He was a member of the artist group BJ (Bezhlavý jezdec/Headless Horseman), from 1996-2001, together with fellow Academy students Josef Bolf, Ján Mančuška and Tomáš Vaněk. He was shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious Jindřich Chalupecký Award both in 2003 and 2005 and his work in included in public collections in the National Gallery in Prague, Prague City Gallery and the European Parliment.