author's print, coloured paper, giclée, archival 12-colour pigment print 70 × 52 cm, mount, frame, glass, signed in pencil bottom right Štech 4, in pencil bottom lleft 90/100, 2024
Certificate of authenticity of the publisher on the reverse in a cut-out 100 pcs.
Issued in an edition of 100 prints.
Adam Štech, an outstanding representative of contemporary Czech painting, belongs to the middle generation of artists who, since the noughties, have been devoted to updating the classical hanging painting and exploring the possibilities of contemporary expressive means in painting. Štech has created a distinctive artistic style in which in the wake of postmodernism, looking back to the interwar modernist art movements and works freely with them. Mostly figurative and portrait paintings contain an element of deformation and deconstruction, a new composition and arrangement of individual body and portrait parts, in which the
also contains an element of play and humour. Portrait of President Václav Havel
wearing an orange striped sweater containing highlighted basic features and the ubiquitous cigarette, despite the unrealistic depiction, is simply identifiable.
