Lot 142

Boris Jirků (1955) THE SPACE OF THE DANCE

Most of Boris Jirků's work is of a figurative nature, with dynamic perspective and distinctive coloring playing a significant role in his paintings and illustrations. His work is a parable of modern contemporary life as read through the artist’s original expression. The picturesqueness and expressiveness of the stories unfolding in his artworks, often bordering on the absurd, lead to his classification and identification with the Czech Grotesque School. 

Boris Jirků, MFA studied at the Technical School of Applied Arts in Uherské Hradiště and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague under Professor Arnošt Paderlík. For many years he taught figurative drawing at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where he was also dean. He currently teaches figurative drawing at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Pilsen and is a leads doctorate studies at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. He is the founder and organizer of FIGURAMA, an international exhibition of European university student drawings. He has illustrated many important works of international literature, including the Czech translations of Mikhail Bulkakov’s The Master and Margarita, a collection of short stories by Maxim Gorky, and Gabriel García Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and One Hundred Years of Solitude. The award-winning artist (including several Most Beautiful Book of the Year awards) is represented in collections around the world.