Josef Bolf in Brno Josef Bolf (1971) ranks amongst the most interesting Czech painters of the younger generation. The main subjects of his painting are emotions of vulnerability and destruction and limits of communication. These intensive, self-destructive records of emotion, combined with the influences of comics and science-fiction, however, adopt the capability to communicate on a general level. The paintings from the recent years especially accentuate auto-destruction and death as issues which are usually subdued, even ignored in the consumerist society. In his paintings and drawings, Bolf is interested in extreme situations and the paintings can be viewed as storyboards for a certain story which is not completely clear yet. Bolf’s morphology tries to bespeak of general things. His black wax paintings can be understood as instructions how to physically extract images and stories from the subconscious mind. Josef Bolf “Paintings, Drawings” G99 Gallery, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno 19 June – 13 July 2008
