Jakub Roztočil

Bio

Jakub Roztočil (1979) lives and works in Prague. In 2005, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he studied sculpture under Jan Hendrych and monumental art under Prof. Aleš Veselý. He exhibits both independently and in groups, and his work is represented in Czech and foreign private collections. He devotes himself to machine art, the result of his work being typically a painting, exceptionally a sculpture. He is the author of an analog mechanism that uses frequencies to spray paint onto canvas. He is fascinated by basic physical principles and turns, structuring, processuality, resonance, harmony, and generativity. With their help, he artificially thinks through, imitates, and varies the basic aspects of universality. The limit of his efforts is the nonverbal tradition of visual art. He renounces the noncommittal play that has long overwhelmed art history, its empty self-reference, irony, and coding. He is fascinated by the elusive, all-encompassing essence of reality. His distrust of words has led him to embrace alternative modes of contemplation. He does not work with ideas, theses, or concepts; he is interested in the interactions between waves, rhythms, and gravity. The result is a work of art in the sense of visual documentation of a process taking place in time and space.