Michal Mraz

Michal Mráz, originally studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts & Design in Bratislava, Slovakia. .  Each canvas is composed of endless reworked images on a surface that breaths stories of profound complexity. Narrative based, his paintings and style reflect a scene all their own. Realistic images of light and shadow, people and places merge asphalt colors, muddy splatters, and rust stained drips.

The images in each painting are borrowed pieces of a larger puzzle that hold his body of work together cohesively, within a contemporary construct. The source materials used and often repeated  are of various media elements such as newspapers, and magazine photographs, film shots, and exerts from the internet. Topics of globalization, perceptions of the past, principles of consumerism, human systems, and social identity, juxtapose what it means for the artist  to be an individual in this very moment.

The finished result, is a highly charged picture, electric in nature, frozen in time, as if against its own will. With great care Mráz edits, reworks and exhausts each canvas.  He is not short on content, and executes tireless swirls of activity, highlighting the prevailing emotion each complex work successfully delivers.

Courtesy of Robert Fontaine Gallery