Zdenek Sorf

The paintings of Zdenek Sorf began with his criticism of the official arts of the communist regime, shared by many of his generation. In 1990, he established a school where he taught young people to express their creativity and new freedom through painting meanwhile developing his own individual style.

Magical Realism reflects the neo-surrealistic concept of nonconsciousness, a free stream of imagination without a sense of control, vision being it's magical component. Sorf developed a Mysterious Reality using technological motifs that depict common subjects. By depriving them of their contents, he changes the context of life and emphasizes the poetic character of painting. In New Synthesis, Zdenek Sorf is influenced by other masters... mysterious paintings that redefine Velasquez and Botero.

The spacious, suggestive canvases concentrate our view on a figure that has a dog's head expressing such humanity that we trust and love this being. Sorf divides large areas of some of the paintings with letters or numbers, dramatically bridging the new and the old. The Prague artist non-aggressively shows us an involved observation mixed with light irony. Always a new step to the next evolution.