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Translation of a speech made by Czech art historian Jiri Machalicky, PhDr. at Jiri Ptacek’s graduation exhibition opening at the National Art Gallery in Prague in June 2001 Jiri Ptacek chose a theme of rapidly-changing scenery for his paintings, which was inspired by his trips to Berlin. Memories of different moments were metamorphosed into a […]

Since 2003 Jiří Ptáček has been developing a reflection of a trouble-free modern style in collections of paintings using coloured acrylic paints. These paintings react mainly to the current role of publicity and media manipulation, but also suggest a general tendency to escape to a virtual world free of real problems. It is a thematically […]

Since 2010 Jiri Ptacek has been working on a new collection of paintings entitled Metamorphosis. This collection is different in both sensation and style from the previous Perfect World collection and seems to have been created almost as a reaction to it. One of the impulses which started Ptacek’s work on the collection was his […]