Filip Svehla

Untitled, 2020

46 x 55 cm

Oil on canvas

Unframed

(ships from Czechia)

The artist takes a slightly different approach with 3 of his works, this one representing vertically emphasised colour blocks in square formations, almost like a jigsaw where the pieces fit with each other. The colours repeat in patterns alternating in long strips. The artist employs a formalist approach in his works, as is evident here with influence from the American and European abstract movements. Svehla describes how he rarely understands his paintings “as final works, usually they are still just comments on the way, touching the problem from different sides.” While travelling in Spain, Svehla noticed the play of light on industrial buildings and here we can see the inspiration of these buildings in the simplistic formation rising high above the imagined skyline.