Lot 216

Jan Vyleťal (1940 - 2013) A SPACE GATE

The hitherto underappreciated painter Jan Vyleťal, the twin of the well-known imaginatively focused painter and poster maker Josef, went through a number of technically oriented jobs and began to deal with painting at an advanced age. His technically extremely demanding paintings full of fantasy and mystery are also a unique artistic expression of the author's close relationship to astrophysics and the development of the cosmos. He did not paint systematically until he was 65 and finished his work five years later for health reasons. In a relatively short time, however, he created a very balanced and remarkable work of almost two hundred paintings, which, according to Jiří Valoch, a leading expert in geometric art, are probably unparalleled in both domestic and world art due to their originality in the field of geometric abstraction.