The Kvalitář Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition project of Jaroslava Kadlecová(1987) and Jan Kovářík (1980), two graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Apart from the same initials, both authors also share the consideration of their work, the relation to the specific manipulation of the material and its technical nature charged with a emotional value, which is manifested through an extraordinarily strong haptic character. The gloss of Kovářík's objects and Kadlecová's paintings exceeds the glittering tinsel, becoming a direct ideological reflection of the artistic identity.

What Jaroslava Kadlecová perceives as essential is the relation to the modernist and contemporary expressive architecture, which is based on her semester-long stay in London. Surrounded with progressive projects built by architectural stars, she decided to convert their morphology into her paintings. However, she substantially exceeds the boundaries of painting, denying their otherwise natural two-dimensional character, and upon gradual layering the paint, she adds the third dimension to them. She achieves this effect using industrial varnishes and epoxy resins. What is essential to her is the work with industrially manufactured products in their basic, unaltered nature. She thus refers to the period of modernism, and the development of using prefabricated elements. In her work, she reflects modernism through a wider range of references throughout its colourful history, from constructivists to Piet Mondrian.

On the other hand, Jan Kovářík turns to the natural morphology and creates unusually organic shapes invoking even concerns to some extent. The variations of their movements are incomplete or paused, as if they were sculptural photographs, a static depiction of an otherwise dynamic process, plot or development. At the same time, they give the impression of something unearthly. They may serve as a shelter for alien inhuman organisms, or they may themselves be living being petrified as sculptures. At the same time, through their choice of surfaces implying natural materials or specific types of risk, they create a strong tension between the nature and its imitation, i.e. its interpretation through human imagination.

Another common denominator of their work consists in the interest in the craft. At the time when the classical medium gives in to the general interdisciplinarity and concept, Jaroslava and Jan both remain the pioneers of new shapes of classical painting and sculpture as independent creative disciplines.

For the Kvalitář Gallery, JK 2x is another decisive stroke in exploring young talented artists and their presentations in specific connections.