Pavel Kryz
White as an Ornament
Anna Irmanovová, 1998, Pavel Kříž – White, Pecka Gallery, Vratislavova
The painter – Pavel Kříž – currently displays his paintings in the Gallery Pecka. After his series of blue and yellow canvases exhibited in previous years, Pavel Kříž has this time abandoned the dilemma of the colour area and decided to express himself using a clear and transparent method. Also the title of the exhibition – White – indicates the importance of colour desertion, because as we know the white is not a colour.
Although the rhythmic ornament technique might look like a simplified expression, when observed for a longer time, the viewer is however surprised by the degree of unrestrained and dynamic decorativeness that can be seen even on a white area. His passion for classicist ornaments urges Pavel Kříž to a greater and greater virtuosity. As if the creation of the ornament were not a sufficient work of art by itself, the artist in addition employs an exciting artwork in the composition that makes the painting restless.
The entire composition then gets almost an op art effect of undulating reality. Unlike the blue and yellow compositions that visualise themselves by their colour, white paintings are born like at the edge of reality.
Bevels on the painting give an impression of the reflection in various mirrors, they are and they are not distinct at the same time, they create a new space or wrap it even more into fantasies and dreams. Connection of the painting and drawing associates Chinese ink paintings, the ornament indicates a meditative creation enabling an infinite rhythm and continuation. The exhibition could be a musical notation of an infinite composition as well. The exhibition “White” of Pavel Kříž is a dream of an ornamental artistic work that would not stay at the level of decorative elements.
Anna Irmanovová