Jan Uldrych
Jan Uldrych focuses on the inner world of experience, the limits of human perception, and the motif of the unconscious memory. "I am interested in a certain confrontation with reality. We do not know with unshakeable certainty where its boundaries really are, what it creates and where the source of our consciousness is. I have no desire to paint only the things I see with my eyes; I want to go beyond what we commonly call "reality". I am interested in the inner structure of being, something original, something that seeps in from other planes of consciousness. In this way we avoid the lie - we do not transform the external world, but our experience of the other gives us answers to what the world "out there" rather is not." Jan Uldrych.
The resulting paintings by Uldrych are all the more interesting. Imagery - traditionally understood as realistic (leaving aside the problem of realism as a "convention") - represents completely unknown entities anchored in an unknowable reality in the paintings. In their visual character, the paintings thus resemble almost abstract, non-figurative methods of painting. Jan Uldrych is aware of this and over time began to reflect on the relationship between transparent representation and the coarse expressive painterly gesture usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, confronts us with ideal and perfect windows with his paintings: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there"; our minds simply do not possess the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted. His paintings thus call for a "Wittgensteinian silence" - "What cannot be spoken about must be kept silent." The contours of realism and reality itself are therefore shaped in the pure and unadulterated creative, conceptually undefined experience of the image in an attempt to resurrect the "innocent eye."
Individual exhibitions
2019
Roots, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2018
Bicycle, Knupp Gallery, Prague
Prayer, Volta New York Fair, The Chemistry Gallery
2017
Caves, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2015
Bug in the Head, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2014
Source Code" pop up exhibition,The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
"299792", Knupp Gallery
2012
Tera Incognita,GHMP House at the Golden Ring, Prague
Joint exhibitions
2021
KOSMOS, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2018
Can't stop kissing you, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Art market Budapest, Budapest, The Chemistry Gallery
Visual Mythology, Regional Gallery of Highlands in Jihlava
2017
Between Spaces, Los Angeles, Knupp Gallery, Prague
2016
Spectaculare Art Show : Imprint of Music, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Art Fair Cologne, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Velvet and Glass, Los Angeles, Knupp Gallery
Art Prize CBM Art Salon S Gallery III edition, Dancing House, Prague
Art Show LA Convention Center", Los Angeles, Knupp Gallery
2015
CZECH in LA with Building Bridges Art Exchange,Los Angeles
Art Prize CBM, III Edition, Rivarolo C.se Turin, Italy
2014
22:22/2,The Chemistry gallery, Prague
2013
Unsuspected space on the border of landscape and soul, Hvězda Summer Palace
2013
22:22, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
Selection, Knupp Gallery
Contemporary realistic painting from the collection of Pavel Feigl Zdeněk Beran and his pupils, Galerie Černá swan, Prague
2012
PAINTOMORROW, Šumperk Gallery, Šumperk
Czech painting, Piestany
A Again, Trafo gallery, Prague
Except Alice - the Empire Behind the Mirror", Orlovna Gallery, Kroměříž
2011
HYPE-R-R, Artprogallery, Prague
PREVIEW, The Chemistry Galery, Prague
4, Kotelna Gallery, Říčany u Prahy
2009
Articulation, Diamant Gallery, Prague
PAIN(t), Šumperk Gallery
Jan Uldrych - Eternity is in love with the creations of time
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Mahakala
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Touch
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Sediment 1
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Sediment 2
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Sediment 3
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Vyvřelina
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Ikebana 1
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Chimera
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Heart
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - Key
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.
Jan Uldrych - RAM
Jan Uldrych reflects on the relationship between transparent representation and coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is usually associated with abstraction. Udrych therefore, in effect, presents us with his paintings in front of ideal and perfect windows: We see the world behind them with absolute clarity, but we have no rational experience of what we see "out there", our minds simply do not have the concepts with which to grasp what is depicted.