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Michal Singer |
Michal Singer ranks to the few well-known Czech artists who worked their way to fame as amateurs. He graduated from the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague and, after 1989, was responsible for the visual style of the prestigious Czech weekly magazine of opinion, Respekt. He is, however, solely engaged in free work from 1993, he widely exhibits and turned into a successful painter whose works are represented in many leading collections. Singer’s narrative paintings are characteristic of distinct expressively-fauvist brushwork by which we can discern the artist infallibly. The impasto canvases with thick outlines and noticeable color surfaces are often compared to the style of Van Gogh and Gauguin. Singer works with stories of general validity, also returning to classical historical narratives. They have their leading and secondary figures and they occur in a concrete setting, but it still cannot be said that Singer’s painting is realistic. It also contains references to Symbolism and Decadence, especially in his latest works with energetic, gestic brushwork. Michal Singer has become an artist intensively sought after by collectors.
Artworks of this author offered by Prague Art & Design
Michal Singer
2003 – awarded by the Klenová Gallery for the best participation at a group exhibition 2003 – art-theoretical jury of the Pars magazine awarded him the 10th best artist in the Czech Republic for the given year Scholarship: April –May 2003, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria
* 1959, Prague
Awards
2003 – awarded by the Klenová Gallery for the best participation at a group exhibition
2003 – art-theoretical jury of the Pars magazine awarded him the 10th best artist in the Czech Republic for the given year
Scholarship:
April –May 2003, KulturKontakt Austria, Vienna, Austria
Education
1974 –1978 grammar school, Prague
1979 –1984 studies at the Charles University in Prague (graduates from Philosophy, Politics and Economics)
1984 –1989 works manually
1989 is active in the Civic Forum movement in the Mánes Gallery in Prague in the framework of the Czech Republic’s Velvet Revolution
1990 co-founds the Respekt weekly magazine of opinion (awarded by the 1992 World Press Review prize)
1990–1993 collaborates on the graphic design of the Respekt weekly and cooperates with the editorial office of the art and literary revue, Revolver Revue, contributing with both articles and illustrations
1993–2004 freelance artist (especially focuses on oil painting and, occasionally, creates illustrations for newspapers and books; writes poems, prose and essays on various subjects, mainly fine arts)
1999 publishes a collection of drawings, entitled What I’ve Seen, What I’ve Dreamt, What I’ve Heard and Where I’ve Been (Co jsem viděl, co jsem snil, co jsem slyšel, kde jsem byl; Šimáček publishing house)
produces illustrations for the Literární Noviny newspaper
2002 publishes a collection of poems, entitled Shell – a “nautical” trilogy illustrated by his own lithographs (Argo Publishing)
2003 publishes a collection of poems, entitled The Red Phantom Attacks (Červený přízrak útočí), and a collection of prose, entitled The Green Phantom Lies Down (both are literary supplements to the Tvar fortnightly)
Collections
National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Klenová Gallery, Klatovy-Klenová, Czech Republic
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prague, Czech Republic
Solo Exhibitions
2010 | Michal Singer
