Lubomír Typlt
Colonization I
Artist
Lubomír Typlt
(1975, Jilemnice), Czech
Original Title
Colonization I
Date2017
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions200 × 260 cm
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionLubomír Typlt is one of the most important painters who came into prominence in the first decade of the 21st century in connection with a re-discovered interest in the medium of painting. Typlt’s work is based in a very robust theoretical and art-historical understanding. His early paintings with the motif of dead cats were pervaded by a strong sense expressivity and existential significance. His painting’s tendency towards expressivity however changes towards the rationality of a conceptual approach based in systematic research. He works with a morphology of content and expression which draws heavily on Expressionism, but also subjects it to a critical irony. His work with expressive means is purely intentional. One can see the figures and objects in his paintings as cloned or multiplied models whose thematisation exposes the many forms of evil. He works in cycles in which he experiments with the expressive means of painting, maps the contours of a particular visual motif, analyzes the chosen form and seeks the most intense emotional and colour constellation. He occasionally also develops the direction of a melding geometric work which has to do with creating ready-mades and shows a tendency towards the absurd as well as Dada.
This canvas is part of the image cycle which thematically draws on Typlt’s installation Convoy (2017) consisting of an absurd assemblage of bicycles and umbrellas. The depicted motif of structures made of bicycles and red umbrellas in place of wheels have to do with Typlt’s tendency towards the ready-made, his taste for absurdity and an intentional deviation form the norm. The painting shows the connection between Typlt’s more abstract style and his expressive and more object-focused style. This is brought to the fore by his gestural and pasty rendering of the canvas as well as by the exalted colour spectrum which give each of the cycle’s painting a particular individuality. Typlt uses complementary colours with the full understanding of their emotional projection on the viewer, thus further empowering the canvas’ expressivity.
Lubomír Typlt (*1975, Jilemnice) attended the Václav Hollar Art School in Prague until 1993, studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno with Prof. Jiří Načeradský and, in 1997, he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague. Due to his interest in German Expressionist painting, which drew him for its painterly and thematic brutalism and rawness, Typlt continued improving his knowledge of painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he studied under Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Gerhard Merz, and Prof. A. R. Penck. After one year spent in Berlin, he returned in 2006 to Prague where his works were included in important exhibitions which, in the first years of the new millennium, focused on new tendencies in painting (Perfect Tense, Prague Castle Riding School, Praha 2003; Resetting: jiné cesty k věcnosti, Prague City Gallery, 2007; Motýlí efekt?, Galerie Rudolfinum 2013). In 2012, he had a large solo exhibition at the Prague City Gallery. Solo exhibitions of Typlt’s work in the Czech Republic have been held at the Prague City Gallery (Ticking Man, 2012), the Václav Špála Gallery (You Cannot Drown in the Same River Twice, 2018), and the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou (Dancing Pentagon, 2021–2022). His art has also featured in group exhibitions presented in Germany (Blue Is Hot and Red Is Cold: Klasse A. R. Penck 1989–2005, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, 2019). Typlt has also had solo exhibitions abroad, for instance in Germany (Düster ist die Nacht, Galerie Poll, Berlin, 2013; Somnambul, C&K Galerie, Berlin, 2020), France (Transition, Galerie Oneiro, Paris, 2016), and Belgium (Ticking Man, Prague House in Brussels, 2017). His work is included in numerous institutional and private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad, in countries such as Germany, China, and the Netherlands. He is also affiliated with the music act WWW for which he writes lyrics replete with strong symbolism and absurd irony which resonate with his visual works.
This canvas is part of the image cycle which thematically draws on Typlt’s installation Convoy (2017) consisting of an absurd assemblage of bicycles and umbrellas. The depicted motif of structures made of bicycles and red umbrellas in place of wheels have to do with Typlt’s tendency towards the ready-made, his taste for absurdity and an intentional deviation form the norm. The painting shows the connection between Typlt’s more abstract style and his expressive and more object-focused style. This is brought to the fore by his gestural and pasty rendering of the canvas as well as by the exalted colour spectrum which give each of the cycle’s painting a particular individuality. Typlt uses complementary colours with the full understanding of their emotional projection on the viewer, thus further empowering the canvas’ expressivity.
Lubomír Typlt (*1975, Jilemnice) attended the Václav Hollar Art School in Prague until 1993, studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno with Prof. Jiří Načeradský and, in 1997, he graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague. Due to his interest in German Expressionist painting, which drew him for its painterly and thematic brutalism and rawness, Typlt continued improving his knowledge of painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he studied under Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Gerhard Merz, and Prof. A. R. Penck. After one year spent in Berlin, he returned in 2006 to Prague where his works were included in important exhibitions which, in the first years of the new millennium, focused on new tendencies in painting (Perfect Tense, Prague Castle Riding School, Praha 2003; Resetting: jiné cesty k věcnosti, Prague City Gallery, 2007; Motýlí efekt?, Galerie Rudolfinum 2013). In 2012, he had a large solo exhibition at the Prague City Gallery. Solo exhibitions of Typlt’s work in the Czech Republic have been held at the Prague City Gallery (Ticking Man, 2012), the Václav Špála Gallery (You Cannot Drown in the Same River Twice, 2018), and the Aleš South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou (Dancing Pentagon, 2021–2022). His art has also featured in group exhibitions presented in Germany (Blue Is Hot and Red Is Cold: Klasse A. R. Penck 1989–2005, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, 2019). Typlt has also had solo exhibitions abroad, for instance in Germany (Düster ist die Nacht, Galerie Poll, Berlin, 2013; Somnambul, C&K Galerie, Berlin, 2020), France (Transition, Galerie Oneiro, Paris, 2016), and Belgium (Ticking Man, Prague House in Brussels, 2017). His work is included in numerous institutional and private collections in the Czech Republic and abroad, in countries such as Germany, China, and the Netherlands. He is also affiliated with the music act WWW for which he writes lyrics replete with strong symbolism and absurd irony which resonate with his visual works.
