Written Landscapes 2000/2020
Processual Paintings 1983/1995
Chasm 1978/1983
Landscape Image 1974/1980
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Written Landscapes 2000/2020
We can perceive the paintings of Miloš Šejn created in recent years as an equivalent of his processional drawings and videos. In them, site selection plays an important role (besides temporal coordinates, which the author meticulously records). It is a privileged ”topoi” for which he created a purely personal and emotional bond, and to which he repeatedly returns as the landscape of his life - whether they are specific locations in the Giant Mountains or by the Eger River. The artist‘s contact with the landscape literally has a physical nature; indeed, he enters the images of these places through his own body. You could even say that his experience from the place unfolds in a very intimate, almost erotic mode. These associations are moreover evoked by the fact that the material of many of his paintings is canvas with memory of the body, sheets with the „wrinkles“ life. Tensioned in the frame, we can then read them as unrepeatable intimate traces of stories in which all situational moments left their creative role: besides landscape morphology and body painting also material that clung to the “painter‘s canvas” - grass, clay, flowers, twigs, feathers … In a certain sense, we could designate Šejn’s paintings as some kind of temporal “canning” of specific objective realities and subjective emotions and experiences, capturing the poetry of the place and the fleeting moment. Everything in the painting has meaning as part of a unique situation. In a way, the painting is an object in physical relation not only to the creator and the landscape, but also to the viewer.
From NMHTÍ by Kaliopi Chamonikola
NMHTÍ
Javoří loukou / Maple Meadow – Giant Mountains 9. 8. 2017, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
Javoří loukou / Maple Meadow – Giant Mountains 9. 8. 2017, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
Agara / Agara River 20. 4. 2019, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas,150 x 150 cm
sejn_written landscapes.pdf
From NMHTÍ by Kaliopi Chamonikola
NMHTÍ
Javoří loukou / Maple Meadow – Giant Mountains 9. 8. 2017, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
Javoří loukou / Maple Meadow – Giant Mountains 9. 8. 2017, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
Agara / Agara River 20. 4. 2019, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas,150 x 150 cm
Agara 24. 3. 2016, acrylic, pigments, materials and charcoal on canvas,150 x 150 cm / work process video
By The Maple Brook 19th June 2007, acrylic and pigments on canvas, 300 x 600 cm, installation in House of Art in České Budějovice
sejn_written landscapes.pdf
