Filip Svehla

Untitled, 2020

80 x 20 cm

Oil on canvas

Unframed

(ships from Czechia)

The artist takes a slightly different approach with 3 of his works, this one representing horizontally emphasised larger colour blocks in square and thin rectangle formations, almost like a jigsaw where the pieces fit with each other. The colours are quite muted as if dulled down by a cast of grey over the top taking down the strength of the mustard yellow and the lime green. 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.” of blocks of colour mimicking the way a building is formed in layers. A sense of disharmony is displayed in this work, with varying sizes and overlapping colours.