Jiří Petrbok

Jiří Petrbok (1962) is one of the absolute classics of the Czech art scene. Since the mid-1990s, he has been systematically working with the phenomenon of man. He understands it as an element and a certain criterion on which his paintings are based and which determines them. Petrbok exposes the human body to suffering, deformities and various forms of discomfort. Although man, especially the human body, is at the centre of most of Petrbok’s works, we often get the feeling that he has been deliberately excluded from the painting. A remarkable element of Petrbok’s work is his capacity for irony and a certain grotesqueness. Petrbok is very often able to set the plot in a situation that shifts things from the imaginary zone of a certain horror and anxiety and creates the author’s distinctive and unmistakable language, which is a careful and extraordinary synthesis of many years of creative experience.  Jiří Petrbok is the head of the drawing studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.

Artist works
Jiří Petrbok

Selected exhibitions:

  • Burning Heart, National Gallery Prague, Prague, 2018
  • Jiří Petrbok – Three Tents, Via Art, Prague, 2016
  • Jiří Petrbok − Forever!, Trafo Gallery, Prague, 2015
  • Dissection of a Dragon, Kolín City Gallery, Kolín, 2015
  • The Butterfly Effect?, Rudolfinum Gallery, Prague, 2013

Artist works

Painting

Anna is Eva

Jiří Petrbok
Anna is Eva
Detail
Painting

Life without a hero

Jiří Petrbok
Life without a hero
Detail
Painting

That's just not possible

Jiří Petrbok
That's just not possible
Detail

Past sales

Painting

Great father

Jiří Petrbok
Great father
Painting

A Worn-Out Man Put on His Wife's Body

Jiří Petrbok
A Worn-Out Man Put on His Wife's Body
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