Jungle Prague 9

I’d like to invite you to one more exhibition. It begins on May 7 in Gallery 9 in Prague. I’ll have it together with Zdeněk Daněk, and it’s about parks and forests in Prague 9, our neighbourhood. We found out that we have been going to paint in the same place for several years. It’s a romantic overgrown forest – a jungle – that is constantly under threat of a “revitalization”. At the exhibition, which we called “Jungle Prague 9”, we would like to point out that not every wild place in Prague needs to be cultivated.

The opening is starting on Tuesday 7/5 at 6 pm.
The exhibition will last until 30.5.
Open Monday to Thursday, 10-19 hours. Free entry.

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Pravěk, Mlhy, Chrámy

I would like to invite to my new solo show. “Pravěk, Mlhy, Chrámy” which will be dedicated solely to paintings that I brought from Taiwan and Canary Islands.

Tomas Honz

PREHISTORY, MISTS, TEMPLES

The opening is on April 25, 2024 at 4 p.m in the exhibition halls of the Rabas Gallery at Vysoká Ulice 232, Rakovník, Czech Republic and the show will last until June 30, 2024. Exhibition is free to enter and open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.rabasgallery.cz

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Horizons - group show

I would like to invite you to a group show in Prague. This time it’s Horizons in the Kooperativa gallery.I have several paintings there, which are directly confronted with fellow painters from the turn of 19th and 20th centuries. I’m sure everyone who is interested in Czech art knows them very well.
Shows at the Cooperativa gallery are always worth it, so I hope you will manage to find some time to visit it.

13/03/2024 – 16/07/2024

Kooperativa, Pobřežní 21 – Prague 8
Tue–Sun 1000–1800

Free entry.

Best regards,
Tomas Honz

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A tribute to Otakar Lebeda

Otakar Lebeda - Horské oko v Krkonoších

The pictures of the glacial lakes in the Krkonoše mountains on the border of Czech Republic and Poland were painted by Otakar Lebeda (1877 – 1901) during his last trip in September 1896. He was only 19 years old at the time.
Both canvases are too detailed to be completed in one sitting. So he had to either return to the spots or finish them from memory somewhere else. Strolling around the peaks of the Krkonoše Mountains with equipment for painting certainly required determination and physical fitness.

Small and Great Lakes can be found today on the Polish side of the mountains. Lebeda portrayed them several times and always chose an unusual view from above into the depth. A realistic record of the steep rocky slopes falling to the water surface of the Little Lake was painted not far from the trail, which can still be followed today. However you will not be able to see the view on the other painting of the Great Lake, unless you break the rules of the National Park and walk off the trail. Of course I don’t recommend doing that.

Otakar Lebeda, Horské oko v Krkonoších, 1896, NGP, Oil on canvas, 78 × 98 cm

In June 1897, Lebeda graduated at the landscape studio of Julius Mařák at the Prague Academy, where he was considered to be one of the most talented students. Four years later, he prematurely ended his life and promising career with a shot from a revolver. The cause was depression and physical exhaustion.
On the level of considerations, it can be argued that if he had not done this and continued to paint in a similar spirit, then today he could be considered the greatest of Mařák’s students.

Otakar Lebeda, Velké jezero v Krkonoších, 1896, NGP, oil on canvas, 78 × 98 cm

Paintings of mountain lakes are among my favorites by Lebeda. A few years ago, during a visit to the same mountains, I decided to make my own version. The painting is an acknowledged tribute.

Tomas Honz, Maly Staw (Tribute to Lebeda), Oil on canvas, 65x75cm, 2019 (2024 revision)

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What's coming in 2024?

2023 is behind us. It has been a beautiful if not a bit strange year for me. Much work has been done though and a way more is coming in 2024. So I thought I would share a glimpse of what to look forward to.
  • From the end of April, a solo exhibition in the Rabas gallery in Rakovník.
  • In May, a joint exhibition with a fellow painter Zdenek Daňek in the Gallery 9 in Prague.
  • A group exhibition in the Kooperativa gallery in Prague is under discussion.
  • I’m looking forward to three residencies this year. Taiwan in March, Italy in June and Austria in September.
  • There’s also one secret thing related to the caves in Romania. But more on that later.
  • and maybe finally a biographical book that I’ve been working on? 🙂

And so I will look forward to meeting you and I promise I won’t back down.
Anyway, I wish you much joy, abundance and inspiration in the 2024,
Sincerely,
Tomas

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"Gamekeeper Realism" - Group Exhibition

I will have one very large painting there. I worked on it for two years. So far, only those who have visited my studio have seen it. And the whole action will be good.

 

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Dear art lovers,
accept an invitation to the opening of the wittiest exhibition of 2023
Gamekeeper realism vol. 2
which will take place on Friday December 1st, 2023 from 5pm till 9pm in the Portheimka Gallery, náměstí 14. října 68/14, Prague 5 – Smíchov.
The exhibition will last from 2.12. 2023 through 15.1. 2024.
Exhibition curator: Filip Kůrka
Co-curator: Štěpán Mikulenka
Opening night music: TBA
More than 20 artists are participating.
We look forward to meeting you!
Warmly,
The Chemistry Gallery

And the teaser for the painting (It’s in the background):

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OBSCURUM - Solo Show

Everyone is kindly invited to visit my new solo show in Jan Cejka Gallery in Prague.

There will be 7 new nocturnal paintings on display + some on demand plein air pieces.

Opening on May 17 at 19:00.

 

Hybernská 4, Praha 1, 110 00, Prague, Czech Republic

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Exhibition in Radebeul, Germany

You are cordially invited to the opening as well as to visit any time.

The opening is on October 16.

 

Roland Gräfe Stiftung – Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur
Lößnitzgrundstraße 13 I 01445 Radebeul
Fon: +49 172 3787368
www.roland-graefe-stiftung.de

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Exhibition in Hluboká nad Vltavou

Number of my paintings including two large sized ones will hang at my new solo show in the Museum of Forestry in Hluboká nad Vltavou. I find that fitting as forest are one of my most prevailing subjects.

Ohrada 17, 373 41
Hluboká nad Vltavou
Open: MON–SUN 9:00–18:00 hod.
Until September 12 2022

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Exhibition in Neulengbach

I’m going to have another show together with amazing Martin Zak. Please accept our invitation.

The opening is on July 3.

In the gallery Am Lieglweg. Lieglweg 8, 3040 Neulengbach

You can visit in until August 15th.

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