Pavel Dušek
* 11. 8. 1992 in Hradec Králové
Studies
2008–2012 school of civil engineering in Hradec Králové
2012–2018 Academy of fine Arts in Prague
Internship
2016 ISI Yogyakarta, Indonésia
Awards
Prize of Art critique for young painting 2021
ARTPRAGUE young Award 2021
Solo exhibitions
2018 Paint’n’game, Gallery of Prague 7, Prague
2019 Pavel Dušek_obr, Jericho, Prague
2019 Živá platforma, Galerie ve věži, Planá u Mariánských lázní
2019 PDFK_01, Cafe Tvaroh, Prague
2020 Pavel Dušek, OrangeBar, Prague
2021 PDKN21, Mega gallery, Prague
2022 Concrete painting Rabenstejnska galerie, České Budějovice
2023 In The House, Trafogallery, Prague
2023 Im Samthaus, CA Contemporary, Vienna
Group exhibition
2012 EX_01, Club AC, Hradec Kálové
2013 Zimní kompost, studio exhibition, Prague
2013 EX_02, Club AC, Hradec Kálové
2014 MAL3, Galerie J. Lieslera, Kadaň
2016 Výjezd, Galerie sv. Jakuba, Hradec Králové
2016 On street, Yogyakarta
2017 Wikend, Galerie GAVU, Prague
2017 Exhibition_01, Slavonice
2018 32/36, Kasárny Karlín, Prague
2018 MAL3, Galerie sv. Jakuba, Metličany
2018 PDŠMKOTZ, Galerie ArtPraha, Prague
2018 Future ready, Hybernská 4, Prague
2019 (Ne)sdílené, Galerie Prám, Prague
2020 RealDreams, Nová síň, Prague
2021 2,5D, gallery of critics, Prague
2022 INSIDE, Hyb4, Prague
If one were to search for the theme that has long interested Pavel Dušek most of all and which subtly runs through his entire œuvre like a thin line, it would probably be the construction, perception, and above all, experience of space – space in the broadest sense of the word. He doesn’t really care whether this is a morning run through the surrounding landscape, the programmed environment of aging computer games, or the mental space of memories. For him, all this represents an interconnected and contingent world in which one thing is related to the other, even if the interrelationships sometimes operate on a more intuitive than rationally conscious level.
Radek Wohlmuth
“I use a technical term coined by a friend, namely ‘intuitive nostalgia’. I find various spaces in my memory and recollections and then attempt to reconstruct them. There’s an element of free association involved, like when a musician jams, the principle is similar.
I like things to be unfinished and multilayered, even conceptually. My works tend to be based on some kind of intuitive reconstruction of either places that are familiar to me, places I haven’t been to because I don’t know how to get there, or places that no longer exist. And because I begin from my imagination there are various distortions and new realities. However, whether the viewers then perceive the work as an imaginary space, a specific reference or simply an interesting color composition – that’s up to them. Everyone can create their own narrative and that’s something I love.
It’s not explicitly about three-dimensionality; it’s more about the material itself. Concrete, along with other materials like ceramic or bronze, allow me to go further than canvas. I’m inquisitive by nature and enjoy finding out what these materials and processes allow me to do. Every time I start using a different technological system, it opens up new ways of looking at things. But I still consider myself a painter and not a sculptor.
Architecture inspires me. I love Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche, the Bauhaus and other icons like that. I went to a secondary school for civil engineering, where we had some awareness of architecture, and even then I was fascinated by it.”
From an interview with Marie Bordier