For artist Jaromír Novotný (1974), graduate of the Prague Academy of Arts (the drawing studio of Prof. Jitka Svobodová), his work is typified by a constant repetition of questions about the same issues and the further clarification of related answers. These at first are offered through intuitive indications – such as fleeting instances in the guise of realistic, even naturalist, mini-moments in order to later induce the process of meaning formation, clarification and the thereto related shape definition – reconstruction of meaning. The whole aggregate of theses, through which one can find the author’s source, can be captured in early attempts to define the term „home“ (homeland) as a „livable and living space.“ In his works so far Novotný continually addresses the theme of the individual’s relationship to spatio-temporal experience. He gradually frees himself of these experiences in order to return to them by different routes.
Studies:
1993-1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (Jitka Svobodová, Miloš Šejn)
Stipends:
1996 UCLM, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Cuenca, Spain
Stefan Kraus, Das Wesentliche der Malerei betrifft das Unsagbare. Überlegungen zu den Werken von Jaromir Novotny, Kunst und Kirche 1/2013.
Václav Krůček, Formát Jaromíra Novotného, Ateliér 12/2012
Radek Wohlmuth, Jaromír Novotný, Art & Antiques 7+8/2012
Karel Srp, Visible Formats, solo exhibition catalogue, City Gallery Prague, 2012
Jaromír Novotný, artist´s booklet, Kolumba, Köln 2012
Petr Ingerle, Plane, Depth, Space, exhibition catalogue, Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2011
Petr Vaňous, Fundaments & Sediments, exhibition catalogue, City Gallery Prague, 2011
Petr Vaňous, Jaromír Novotný; Transition Point, solo exhibition catalogue, Jiri Svestka Gallery, 2009
Praguebiennale 4 (Expanded Painting 3), exhibition catalogue, Giancarlo Politi Editore 2009
Ondřej Váša, „The World with Our Backs to It“, in: „Finisterrae“ exhibition catalogue, Geukens & De Vil, 2009
Barbora Geržová, Illusion of Space, exhibition catalogue, Nitra Gallery 2008
Petr Vaňous, Resetting – Alternative ways to objectivity, exhibition catalogue, City Gallery Prague, 2008