JAROMIR NOVOTNY
born 1974 in Cesky Brod
Education
1993 – 1999
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague
School of Drawing – Jitka Svobodova
School of Conceptual Tendencies – Milos Sejn
1996
UCLM, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Cuenca, Spain
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Black, SPZ Gallery, Prague
"Light Black", Geukens & De Vil, Knokke
Kolumba, Art museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne
2010
Visible Paintings, Jiri Svestka Berlin
Three paintings, Barka kafe, Ustí nad Labem
2009
Transition Point, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
Finisterrae, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp
2008
Observation Point, Jiri Jilek Gallery, Sumperk
Restricted area, Via Art Gallery, Prague
Emergency Exit, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke
Emergency Exit, Dole Gallery, Ostrava
2007
Welcome!, Felix Jenewein Municipal Gallery, Kutna Hora
2004
The Place of a House, Via Art Gallery, Prague
2003
Lonely Prototypes, Galerie Caesar, Olomouc /with Jitka Havlickova/
Short Series, Gamin, Prague
2002
25 x 35 cm, Municipal Museum, Letohrad
2001
Motives of Home, National Museum - Libechov Castle
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Plane, Depth, Space - Motifs and Principles of Perspective in Art, Moravian Gallery in Brno
Turned Down, Wannieck Gallery, Brno
2010
Fundaments and Sediments - Toy Riot 2011, City Gallery Prague
Open Space, Art Cologne
2009
Prague Biennale 4 – Expanded Painting 3 – Short List 09: 12 Painters
from Czech Republic, Karlin Hall
2008
Financial Crisis … from our stock, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague
INtroCITY, Topicuv salon, Prague
Illusion of space, Nitra Gallery
Lettrismus, Gallery of Modern Art, Roudnice n.L.
2007
Resetting – Alternative ways to objectivity, City Gallery Prague
New Patience, Manes, Prague
2006
Next Station Arcadia, Gallery of Modern Art, Roudnice n.L./Castle of Pirna-Zuschendorf
2003
Konfrontace, Svarov
1996
Bienalle of Young Artists Zvon´96, City Gallery Prague
Jaromir Novotny is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
www.jirisvestka.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jaromir Novotny´s primary intuitive effort is to maintain a relationship to reality in the form of traces of representation. Illusive space functions as evidence of non-abstraction as confirmation of the connection between the image and the reality. No matter how important the physical impact of the painting (colours, surfaces) is for the painter, it never leads to a fusion of representation and the image’s surface itself. It only concerns a very close approximation. Therefore a minimalist dark surface can still be perhaps a window or a room.