Jakub Tytykalo

Bio

Jakub Tytykalo is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (studio of Jiří Lindovský Graphics). During his studies, he completed internships in the drawing studio of Jiří Petrbok, the sculpture studio of Jaroslav Róna, and as part of the Erasmus program he visited the painting studio at the University of Madrid. In his paintings, he works with a blurred border between abstraction and imagery. A kind of sacralization and specific coloring of the objects on his canvases evokes surrealist prototypes in Italian and Spanish Mannerist painting. In Jakub Tytykalo's work, inspiration can be traced to classical modernity. Fragmented beings, still lifes, landscapes and, more recently, urban scenes remind us of cubism with their compositional structure and reduced color scale. However, in contrast to the cubist emphasis on the act of seeing and the problem of representation, Tytykalo turns to imagination: he models matter in his paintings primarily with an emphasis on its imaginative potential. Jakub's combination of painting with acrylic paint and spray inventively combines classic figurative painting with the lightness and exaggeration of street art