Do galérie --- English version --- Cestu, ktorú každý deň meriam, keď idem do práce, asi na kilometrovom úseku lemujú agáty. Ich drevo je húževnaté a tvrdé. Agáty do našich končín priviezli spoza oceánu a používali ich na zalesňovanie neplodných pôd. Takých v kraji, ktorým prechádzam a kde žijem, veľa nie je. Stromoradia agátov často lemujú lokálne cesty, ktoré sa ich prítomnosťou menia na tienisté a v období kvitnutia voňavé úvozy. Jedného dňa, asi päť rokov predtým, ako vznikla táto séria grafík, som našiel agáty na mojej ceste domov spílené. Nie však fatálne. Pri ceste pilčíci nechali stáť torzá stromov, smutný rad okyptených vojakov. Keď…

My works are on display at Art Prague 2020. I have earned a prominent place at the fair last year, when I received the Art Prague Young Award 2019.  Gallerist Jan Čejka about the works of Tomáš Žemla I have met Tomáš about four years ago, when I have accidentally laid my eyes on his works at an exhibition. I was immediately impressed by his technique using layered tiny lines, which he calls čiarkovanie. It requires enormous amount of time, concentration, and back and neck pain. We have exchanged a few e-mails and I set off to visit him at his…

Blurred-fields-XI-60x60cm-oil-on-canvas-2019 Water Tower D, digital photo, 2018 In-the-middle-of-the-field-III-60x60cm-oil-on-canvas-2018 Christmas ball, 15x12cm, etching, aquatint, 2020 Water reservoir, 62x55cm, recycling- wood desk, paper, 2020 Testimony-of-minimalism-man-touched-land-VII- part one, 56x56cm, etching aquatint 2018 Testimony-of-minimalism-man-touched-land-VII- part two, 56x56cm, etching aquatint 2018 Water tower is an element that I seem to keep going back to, with no plan or detailed consideration. I have depicted one single water tower in several forms and techniques. I have found that I have actually collected various interpretations of this industrial-agricultural architecture. From photography, through painting, etching, and combined technique. This is a chance for me to interpret the way one object…

A retrospective exhibition at the Miloš Alexander Bazovský Gallery in Trenčín Curator: Radka Nedomová Just in time before the coronavirus pandemic hit my country, I have opened my first large exhibition in Slovakia in January. Since the gallery was closed for several weeks this spring, the gallery has prepared some videos to showcase my work also in the online space.  The Trenčín exhibition presents my Fields work between 2013-2020. Mostly paintings, but also prints and experimental forms that I have produced over the years. It was an amazing opportunity for me to show my work as it developed over time,…

I have devoted most of 2019 to my work on new series of paintings, taking my fields another few steps forward. Some of the so-far results, Equivalents, are now on display at the Galerie Vltavín in Prague.  The Čiarky a kamene (Lines and Stones) was opened on January 14 and runs until February 13, 2020.  “ This exhibition in Prague was not just an occasion for me to showcase my new works in the Czech capital, but also to cooperate once again with my friend, sculptor Andrej Haršány, and gallerist Jan Čejka (pictured on the left) who curated our joint exhibition. The…

I have first learned about the Ratamo gallery in the Finnish town of Jyväskylä two years ago, during my stay in Guanlan, China, where I travelled for an international workshop focused on prints. Within a year since I succeeded with my application for an exhibition at Ratamo, I found myself on my way to Finland, in the company of my friend, manager and collector Emil Prevuznak. We opened on December 11 and my work will stay on display in Jyväskylä until January 5.  My Interfields was opened together with the exhibition of Natura Forma by fellow printmaker Juha Laakso, a…

Last August, an intriguing e-mail landed in my inbox."I have a small gallery in Prague and as I am preparing next year's programme, I decided to contact you," he wrote.The young Czech gallerist Jan Čejka had been following my work for some time back then. He wanted to talk and said a trip to Špačince was no problem for him. And he really did turn up in my studio one day soon after that.  I admit I was a bit hesitant at first, talking to the very young man who travelled all the way from Prague. But during our conversation, my…

"Fields are encoded in my DNA. They are part of my identity and have taught me how to live." I have welcomed my friends and supporters in my studio on April 30 for an official launch of my new book Fields (Polia).  The book is a retrospect of my work that falls under my Fields project: my oil-on-canvas paintings and prints.  The evening was a nice opportunity to thank all those who stand by me and believe in me, but particularly those who helped me make this book happen. It was a long process, we had worked on the final…

  I have been hard at work from the start of this year on painting more of my Blurred Fields series. I recently took my works to the Cologne Discovery Art Fair and they were received very positively in Germany. It was in Cologne that I got very good news from the US: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation awarded me a grant. I am one of the 111 artists from 17 countries to receive this year’s grant, and the only one from Slovakia. It is very motivating for me to realise that I succeeded in a highly competitive international environment. The award…