Lot 222

Jan Gemrot (1983) ON THE ROAD

Impressive, realist-based, firmly painterly executed paintings by Jan Gemrot, one of the main representatives of contemporary Central European painting, pose fundamental questions about today’s world. They connect personal visions of the rise and fall of human culture, the beginning and end of nature, ancient art, and the latest technology. The fate of contemporary man, as a fragile and ephemeral individual, is involved in this originally depicted cosmological process, finding himself in an environment that is both intimately familiar and alien at the same time. The perfect technical execution of the author's profound, long-term themes affects the viewer in such a way that they become part of the painting, as if merging with the depicted person. Jan Gemrot looks at planet Earth from the distance of many cosmic years and penetrates beneath the surface of the depicted faces to reveal their hidden desires and unfulfilled wishes.