Pavel Preisner’s artistic work is based on painting and drawing, in which a metaphysical dreamlike realm—seemingly uncorrected by reason—serves as a key unifying element. His work features bold colors accompanied by animal motifs, as well as other themes such as geometry, the composition of race cars, and purely abstract shapes guided by the imagination.

These colorful paintings and charcoal drawings by the artist can be described with words such as tenderness, poetry, or harmony. The minimalist means that Preisner employs in his painting and, indeed, throughout his artistic world, are also evident in his literary world. It cannot be otherwise… The contours of buildings, figures, landscapes… sometimes in vibrant colors, at other times muted, even monochromatic. In his drawings, he even ventured into a sort of new pointillism.

However, we find that poetic quality primarily in how and with what Pavel’s paintings are inhabited. A dreamlike, even surreal world of beings, but also of peculiar furnishings, draws us into a sort of cartoon world with its pastel colors and flat perspective. Behind the paintings and the scenes depicted in them lies a unique experience of the authentic lived reality of our everyday life, which is capable of presenting us with such images—and not just recently.

Pavel Preisner (*1970), a graduate of the Fine Arts program at the Faculty of Education of Palacký University in Olomouc, belongs to the circle of Zlín artists and writers, but his work is distinctly supra-regional. He lives in Zlín; in the past, he taught at the Zlín Private College of Art as the head of the Applied Painting department. He is a member of the Romantic Association ROMAN (along with Aleš Szotkowski and Michal Navrátil), a member of the independent art group Ohne titel, and, in collaboration with the Zlín Regional Gallery, regularly publishes art criticism and exhibition reviews in the magazine Prostor.

Visitors have been able to admire his work at both solo and group exhibitions not only in Zlín, but also in Prague, Olomouc, Šumperk, Milotice, and Budapest. In 1997, his work was selected for the 1st Zlín Salon of Young Artists; since 2002, he has exhibited at all Zlín salons, which have become established under the name New Zlín Salon. His work is also represented in the collection of the Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín. In 1996, he made a successful debut with the poetry collection Ulomili (Host, Brno), which he illustrated himself; he also published the book of poems Usuch (2000), prose poems in Budem nudlit (2005), and Cosi s čímsi (2016). He illustrated M. J. Stohr’s poetry collection Hodina hora (Host, Brno 1998) and the book Zloděj a jiné podivné figury by G. Heyma (Host, Brno 1998).