Melted Sun

In this exhibition the artist will fill the capital with energy and color with a variety of canvases in relief of hypnotic, organic and vibrant forms like those that exist in nature. Vivid colors, inspired by the variations of sunlight during the course of the day.

Jan was one of the pioneers in his country as a graffiti writer, better known as Cakes (from Czech, which translates as “Splash”) and founder of DSK crew. Since 2008 he started to experiment with sculpture and canvas which gradually led him to abstraction, perhaps also influenced by his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

How could we define his work? “Geometric and minimal abstraction”, mostly created on frames designed and made by him, where he stretches cotton canvases that he paints with acrylic with both brushes and pistols. In these works, in relief, the shape and the shadow are kept in contrast, and the color fades away from each other, trying to play with these two illusions to put them in the same level.

According to the artist, his work aims to express concrete emotions and feelings through an abstract visual approach, bringing back memories such as a day at the beach or that feeling “when the sun rises on a winter Sunday”. The forms are organic like cells of microorganisms, drops, “melted” forms, elusive and undefined as the emotions are.

Jan Kaláb is an artist who “could not live without colors”, and believes that the circle in his work represents two opposites: sphere and hole. Existence versus emptiness. Imperfection brings movement to the perfect form of the circle and movement brings life. Imperfect shapes, which the artist tries to make as perfect as possible.