Josef Bolf (1971) presents his latest works, inspired by comic style stories, horror films and computer games.
We take on the role of witnesses of events torn out of the
context of a plausible story the existence of which can only be
assumed, guided by the severity of formal signs attributed to the
dramatic pathos of linear stylized sketches of scenes from a comic.
The economy of gesture, figures stylized as signs, the almost
unbearable calmness of the scenes crammed with drama - these are
the features of the works which fully unravel only beyond the reach
of the static field of the picture. A pregnant depiction only
emerges after we set sail through the territorial waters of
imagination accompanied by a non-predetermined convoy of imaginary
emotions, as a response to the situation.
Introduced by Yvona Ferencová, Exhibition Curator and
Marek Pokorný, Director of the Moravian Gallery in Brno
