This exhibition is a cross-section of the work of Hradec Králové author Radoslav Pavlíček, one of the principle representatives of Czech post-minimalist and post-conceptualist movements. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the Gallery of Modern Art in Hradec Králové and a number of private collections.
In his carved “drawings,” Radoslav Pavlíček thematizes the process of seeing, discovering, and influencing the world. A series of carved stacks of paper uncovers the insufficiency of meaning behind everyday words as well as the changeable understanding of those words. The meaning of the words changes with each reading, yet true emptiness, the starting point of epiphany and understanding, remains present behind them. Despite this, words and symbols are the only accessible cracks or peep-holes through which we may see the world in its entirety, in all its fullness and emptiness.
