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Zbyšek Sion (1938) A POLICEMAN

Zbyšek Zion is often described as a painter of a sharp grotesque, illusory painting and abstract imagination. The dark tone of his work probably lies in his direct experience of the horrors of war, when his father fell into the hands of the Gestapo and died in a German prison. According to Petr Nedoma, Zbyšek Zion in his work permanently addresses the ethical question of how to behave a man, built against a will built into a world whose reality he was not willing and perhaps not even able to identify with. In the 1990s, Zion's process of gradual liberation from story in image, from figures and heads shifted to landscapes, and existential dramas take place directly in the faces of those involved.