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Exhibition „Alchemy“ - Galerie Crears in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm – Photo : Marek Tihelka
Exhibition „Alchemy“ – Galerie Crears in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm – Photo : Marek Tihelka

He is regularly taking part in solo and group shows in his country but also abroad. At the moment he presents an important selection of his works in a „double“ exhibition with the Galerie Crears in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm.

From his diploma thesis „Library“ on, the work of Tomáš Jetela has kept an original and determined line, often convoquing the techniques of oil painting and collage to create a dialogue between the figure and her environment but also with the viewer ; a reader who needs to read between the lines.  It is an invitation to think, react and dive into the work and, finally, into oneself. 

„Reader and Kisses“  - 2020 – Mixmedia on canvas  – 150 x 100 cm
„Reader and Kisses“ – 2020 – Mixmedia on canvas – 150 x 100 cm

Shreds of magazines, comics, books… give a particular resonance to his figurative compositions. It is a subtle and vibrant meeting of expressionism and pop culture that appears both a testimony of our current time but also a universal vision of man. 

In big formats, the figures (portraits or vanitas), recognizable or not, are floating in an abstract environment, at the edge of reality and life. Looks, postures, gestures… betray a state of mind, an inhabited loneliness, human existence. 

Photo :  Tomáš Jetela – Studioaview
Photo : Tomáš Jetela – Studioaview

This work has to be seen but above all thought about and felt, recognition and immersion : the inner vision. It’s not about conveying happiness or sadness, beauty or ugliness, but exploring one’s own equilibrium and purpose. It shows perfectly as Egon Schiele put in so powerful words, that „art is primordially eternal“.

„Shaman“ - 2020 – Mixmedia on canvas  – 180 x 130 cm
„Shaman“ – 2020 – Mixmedia on canvas – 180 x 130 cm

Current exhibitions: 
Stage Garden Gallery Crears (Pavilion) – From 23 april to 4 june 2022 – Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (CZ)
Galerie Crears (Villa) – From 23 april to 23 july 2022 – Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (CZ)

Tomáš Jetela: www.tomasjetela.com, www.instagram.com/tomasjetela/


Tomáš Jetela wurde 1986 geboren, der gegenwärtig in Prag lebt und arbeitet. Er hat die Kunstakademie in Prag unter der Ägide von Michal Rittstein absolviert. Jetela hat sich mit einem sehr expressiven und einzigartigen Stil hervorgetan und ist heute eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten in der tschechischen Gegenwartskunst. Tomáš Jetela nimmt regelmäßig an Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in seinem Land und vermehrt auch international Teil. Derzeit gibt es eine „Doppelausstellung“ mit der Galerie Crears in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm die eine Querschnitt von seinem Werk zeigt.

Angefangen mit seiner Diplomarbeit “Bücherei” hat der Künstler eine originelle und selbstbestimmte Linie verfolgt, die mit Ölmalerei und Kollage den Dialog zwischen porträtierter Figur und ihrem Umfeld und dem Beobachter betont; einem Lesenden, der zum Nachdenken und Reagieren eingeladen, gleichsam zwischen die Zeilen tief in das Werk und sich selbst eintaucht.

Fragmente von Zeitschriften, Comics und Büchern verleihen seinen figurativen Kompositionen eine besondere Resonanz. Diese zarte und schillernde Verbindung von Expressionismus und Pop-Kultur erscheint sowohl als Zeitzeuge und umfassende Darstellung des Menschseins. In den größeren Formaten schweben die Figuren, als Vanitas oder Porträts, in einem abstrakten Raum am äußeren Rand von Wirklichkeit und Leben. Gesten, Posen und Blicke lassen Gedankengänge erahnen, gezeichnet von Einsamkeit und dem durchdringenden Erleben menschlicher Existenz.

Jetelas Werk will gesehen werden, aber vor allem auch gedacht und gefühlt. Es ist Erkenntnis, Einfühlung, Innere Schau. Es geht ihm nicht um die Vermittlung von Freude und Trauer, Schönheit oder Hässlichkeit, sondern um die Erforschung des Einklangs mit sich selbst und der eigenen Sinnhaftigkeit. Hier zeigt sich vortrefflich, dass Kunst, mit Egon Schiele, “urewig” ist.

Aktuelle Austellungen: 
Stage Garden Gallery Crears (Pavillon) – 23. April bis 4. Juni 2022 – Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (CZ)
Galerie Crears (Villa) – 23. April bis 23 Juli 2022 – Rožnov pod Radhoštěm (CZ)

Tomáš Jetela – www.tomasjetela.com, www.instagram.com/tomasjetela/

Dan McCleary is a Los Angeles based artist. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and frequently travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, where he makes etchings at the Taller Sangfer.

This is Liza. A 23-year-old girl. Also an illustrator, graphic designer, and explorer of all things circling in our brains. She visually describes thoughts which have their own existence.

Carlos Vergara is an artist from Barranquilla, Colombia, currently studying at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Within his work, he positions himself in the periphery of diverse scenarios.

Pati Baztán is a Spanish artist, based in the middle of the countryside near Barcelona. She paints as she lives, with wild abandon. She is more interested in being led by the desire, emotion, and primal instincts.

Elke Foltz is a French painter. Her work is a search for balance within a constant chaos. All the elements aim to be in harmony and in perpetual renewal in spite of the prevailing disorder.

It was William Burroughs who, in the early 1960s, in his eponymously named cut-up novel, described the human body as a ‘soft machine’, constantly besieged ‘by a vast, hungry host of parasites’.

Olga graduated on the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and has also studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. She has realized dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and in other European countries.

Due to the fusion of digital life with the physical they have become part of our lived reality. The inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality is addressed through artistic positions.

Feels so warm that you can walk around with your transition jacket. We are invited by the artist Nives Widauer to her studio, and I arrive there with Cornelius, who backs me up in documenting this conversation.

Her work concentrates on technology and the emotional and social culture surrounding it. Nicole creates stills, animations, and interactive AR and VR experiences and has exhibited her work since 2017.

Kim Dorland pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape.

In Impuzzibil, there are these bodies struggling and folding and stretching in stacked boxes. They didn’t disappear but they’re not fully there either. And there is no magician present to help out.

From one art fair to the next, from Vienna to Milan. Therefore, the impressions of the second edition of SPARK reach the reader a little late. I deliberately visited the site of the art fair three times.

Faye Wei Wei’s paintings feel like they are wearing lingerie, draped in a body of delicate sensuous marks. The colors, often posed against a white background of exposed untouched canvas, are transparent and fleeting.

A dominating motive theme in her work is using the unexpected to create tension. Playing with the viewers expectations, she broaches the issue of moments paired with distorted items of her imagination.

A Coloured Story, a solo exhibition, by painter Idowu Oluwaseun explores Black intimacy across a spectrum of skin colours. In our ongoing racialized modernity, the taboo or the stigmata of being in possession of more or less melanin shows up in the pervasiveness of colorism—an inheritance of the violence of slavery and colonialism—that continues to organize intraracial sociality today.

The classic 90s anime franchise Evangelion proposes a theory where humanity can overcome its bodily boundaries and unite their souls as one, brought onwards by mankind, a forced step in evolution.

The bookshelf is much more than just an item of furniture, which serves to store all kinds of objects. Often objects accompany us for years and show our personality. What is on your bookshelf?

Keyframe is a digital Art exhibition in Vienna. The exhibition takes place from the 31st of March to 2nd April 2022. 36 different artists will be exhibiting animated artworks, which will be shown on really screens.

“Now!” “Hurry!” “One time only!” “Last chance!” “Before it’s gone!” – Contemporary life demands our constant alertness and attention, and for those who aim to neglect it, responds with the fear of missing out.

Sarah Sharafi in conversation with Liudmila Kirsanova about her art project Apocalypse. Self-published since 2016, it engages artists of different backgrounds to reflect on the ambiguous idea of apocalypse.

It is impossible to see Caro Jost’s work and remain untouched. Since 2000, the artist works worldwide and documents time, space, and events of life in her unique artistic approach.