The interests of Tomáš Němec are wide-ranging: He loves films by Pasolini, Hitchcock and Tarantino, is enthusiastic about music, about Chopin and Callas as much as Blondie and Édith Piaf. And still, all these interests converge on a common aim – painting. It presents us with Piaf, makes her sing, pose and enjoy the audience‘s applause. Other pictures show everyday objects and scenes that capture his world like a diary: a crow, for example, in the middle of a letter case, and lots more which, in contrast to the theatrically charged scenes with Piaf, seem unspectacular and anecdotal. These are scenes which normally would hardly have been considered as likely to survive as art. Although Tomáš Němec creates the paintings themselves “classically” in oil on canvas, he does it in a way that often gives them the spontaneity of water colors. Yet they are just right for such fleeting impressions: a rose, a little dog, a plate or a tree in full, splendid blossom. (Hangar-7)
Biography
Born April 30, 1986 in Poličce
Studies
2005: 2011 AVU v Prague, studio of Painting III – school of M. Rittsteina
2010: Utrecht School of the arts, Netherlands
Group Shows
2004: Gallery of Young, Brno
2005: Please apology for hight level of quality – Gallery Lužánky, Brno
2005: UMPRUM – AVU (Diviš – Rittstein),UMPRUM-AVU Prague
2006: Artkontakt, Gallery Vltavín, Prague
2007: Avu 18, NG Veletržní palác, Prague
2008: In the heaven – Lapidárium, Foundation Czech Barok, Prague
2008: Confrontation Arscontact 2008, Brno, Prague
2008: Students, Wortner House, České Budějovice
2008: GoodLuck – Galerie NOD/Roxy – Prague
2008: Gallery Naplavka, Prague
2009: Half, Gallery Via art Prague
2010: Artyčok TV – Art Fair, Galerie Meetfactory, Prague
2011: Ein Tanz, Hangart-7, Salzburg
2011: Diplomat works AVU 2011, Karlín Hall, Prague
2011: Dreilandereck mit Ausblick, Art Gallery Leipzig, Lipsko
2012: Zlín Salon of young 2012, House of Art, Zlín
2012: Light and Shadow, Prague House, Bruxelles
2012: 12 years of painting III, Embassy of CZ , Vídeň
Solo exhibition
2008: White T- shirt, Gallery 35m2, Prague
2009: Gallery in Museum Prostějovska, Prostějov
2010: Pictures , Gallery Greisen, Prague
2011: Figures, Art Gallery Leipzig, Lipsko
2011: The table from one guy, The Chemistry Gallery, Prague
2012: Painting in the room, Gallery in Church, Planá u Marianských Lázní
2012: Celebration, The Chemistry gallery, Prague
2012: Summer, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart,DE
Modrý pokoj (2012), 110 x 150cm