Jan Uldrych - Eternity is in love with the creations of time

At the centre of Uldrych's attention is the inner world of experience, the limits of human perception, 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", says Jan Uldrych. This makes Uldrych's resulting paintings all the more interesting. Imagery - traditionally understood (leaving aside the problem of realism as a "convention") as realistic - represents in the paintings completely unknown entities anchored in an unknowable reality. In their visual character, the paintings thus resemble almost abstract, non-figurative positions of painting. Jan Uldrych is aware of this and over time begins to reflect on the relationship between transparent representation and the coarse expressive painterly gesture, which is 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 talked about must be kept silent." The contours of realism and reality itself are therefore shaped in the pure and pure creative, conceptually ungrasped experience of the image, in an attempt to resurrect the "innocent eye." Solo exhibitions 2019 Roots, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague 2018 The Wheel, Knupp Gallery, Prague Prayer, Volta New York Fair, The Chemistry Gallery 2017 Cave, 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, Letohrádek Hvězda 2013 22:22, The Chemistry gallery, Prague Selection, Knupp Gallery Contemporary realist painting from the collection of Pavel Feigl Zdeněk Beran and his pupils, Black Swan Gallery, Prague 2012 PAINTOMORROW, Šumperk Gallery, Šumperk Czech Painting, Piešt'any A Znova, Trafo gallery, Prague Except Alice - the Empire Behind the Mirror", Orlovna Gallery, Kroměříž 2011 HYPE-R-R, Artprogallery, Prague THOUGHT, The Chemistry Galery, Prague 4, Kotelna Gallery, Říčany u Prahy 2009 Articulation, Diamant Gallery, Prague PAIN(t), Šumperk Gallery