sign. LD Nesázal 2005, on the reverse Nesázal 2005, on the frame Nesázal 2005
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"he works from the 1990s included paintings as well as smaller assemblages, site-specific installations, collages and multimedia works in which the artist combined dropped materials, shiny jewellery and pictorial banalities into objects reminiscent of handmade domestic production, but also magical and ritual objects. These works are associated with Nesázal's work in the Pondělí group, which was generationally and programmatically defined against the contemporary Czech art scene. It presented a different position of postmodern art, which, unlike the Hardheads group, opposed the avant-garde and history. It followed more the conceptual art of the 1970s, worked with distance and irony, and emphasised the social aspect of art. In 1992, Nesázal made his first study trip abroad - to Australia, which influenced his future direction, and in the same year he was one of the first to receive the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize for his distinctive conceptual and creative approach, transcending the usual postmodern visuality.
After 2000, influenced by his travels, observations of the landscape and the human impact on its form, Nesázal turned to a new painting theme, which he himself called ""silicon"" landscapes. His interest was directed towards modelling illusory landscapes that in many ways resemble contemporary digital images. Although they refer to real environments, they are fictional mental images whose deceptive perspective contradicts the familiar three-dimensional world. It moves somewhere beyond it, beyond our physical experience.
The unreality of the scenes is enhanced by a perfectly smooth surface rendering and a plastic colour scheme that is surprisingly close to contemporary online virtual aesthetics.
Michal Nesázal graduated in 1991 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in the painting studio of Jiří Sopek. He was a founding member of the group Pondělí (1989-1993), whose other members included Milena Dopitová, Pavel Humhal, Petr Lysáček, Petr Pisařík and Petr Zubek. In 1992 he received the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. Since 1992, he has regularly participated in a number of foreign study stays in Australia, the USA and China.
