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New Hall under the High Gate 14/11/2024 - 19/1/2025. Video montage from the opening of the exhibition. DVOŘÁK'S MODERATE MESSAGES "The fabric of Jaroslav E. Dvořák's pictorial compositions is sober and disciplined. Dense ochres and browns alternate with transparent colors of whitish, grayish and greenish tones of vegetable forms, which appear as impenetrable thickets of a mysterious prehuman landscape. His canvases, which until recently were dominated by the luminosity of whites, speak of great inner tension and at the same time strict self-discipline. Primary human awe and at the same time astonishment at the fact that "there is something rather than nothing" in the face of the mightiness of creation are accompanied here by a fragile trust and reliance on the hidden meaning of things. With his painting and spatial creations, Dvořák unfolds reality as an order, as a universe. Only at first glance, the nature of his paintings and objects can seem like a chaotic tangle of unpredictable changes, emergence, birth, growth, disappearance. Through creation, however, nature ultimately reveals itself to him as a solid, interconnected system, an order that, of course, does not have the form of simple school geometry. It has long been known that nature is always hidden. Therefore, it is also difficult for man to touch with full certainty an understanding of the way the world is, and it is quite inappropriate for him to think that he can be its sovereign holder and thus make the world an object for manipulation. In the work of Jaroslav E. Dvořák, there is nature, the world, reality to astonish and understand." Ivan Neumann (text excerpt from the exhibition catalog)