"SEEKERS"

Annotation to the exhibition:

Pavel Kryz can convincingly express his view of the world, relations in society and its changes. He uses the possibilities of classical means of expression to portray his motifs. In painting, drawing, graphic art and collage he explores a variety of themes.   In his figurative paintings, he deals with relationships between people, which are often unnecessarily complicated and unnatural at present, reflecting selfishness, indifference or callousness. However, he also focuses on the landscape, whose changes he is able to capture sensitively. His still lifes also reflect on the way we live, whether we can fill our time in a way that makes us happy. Some of his paintings exude a sense of a lively rhythmic arrangement of elements.

He perceives the contemporary world in its complexity, with its technical perfection, often contrasting with opinionated superficiality, emptiness and thoughtlessness. In his work, he suggests that the desire for success sometimes means more than feelings and human relationships. He is able to portray the changing atmosphere and often unnecessary or artificially induced tension in today's society On the one hand, he reflects on a lifestyle that can ultimately bring loneliness, but on the other hand, he is also able to express in his paintings, for example, a pleasant summer mood, moments of relaxation or daydreaming. He is able to observe our life and the development of today's society closely and portray it with exaggeration and irony, as well as with a sense of the grotesqueness of some situations.In his paintings he expresses the conditions and complicated and often incomprehensible relationships we live in, the twists and turns that can occur, and the future development that is difficult to predict. His work therefore forces us to reflect on our approach to life. But it also reflects the unrepeatable magic of intimate moments. Sometimes it is disturbing and at other times it brings a harmony of subtly graded colour tones in vividly and sensitively rendered stories.

J.Machalický