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Anna Martyneko is an artist originally from Ukraine who lives and works in Prague. After studying architecture in Kiev, which defined her clean and precise style, she focused on fine art. She draws inspiration from human stories, her own memories and experiences. Her work is characterized by pastel colors, purity and simplicity. Her main medium is painting, but she also devotes herself to installations, backdrops and the creation of monochrome interiors. She spent her first years in the Czech Republic in Brno, where she became more familiar with the Czech art scene.
Jiří Směták (*1993) is a stone sculptor and painter. He studied stone sculpture at the SUPŠ in Uherské Hradiště, then continued his studies in the painting studio 3 (AM3) with Petr Kvíčala at the Brno Faculty of Fine Arts. His paintings are characterized by seemingly random combinations of railway motifs, flora and scenes from real life or digital space. He often works with typography and logos. His relationship with typography stems, among other things, from his involvement in the writers' community. His paintings combine real scenery, objects, symbols or memes and are a representation of the author's perception of reality.
Kateřina Slunečková is a painter, a visual artist who has so far mainly devoted herself to figurative painting. In her latest work, she crosses the boundaries of figurative expression and now works with a space without figures, where real places appear, which, however, seem unexpected and elusive. For the first time, she also incorporates abstract elements into her works, which shifts her work to the intuitive plane of feeling. Her compositions evoke memories that leave us with feelings that we once knew but forgot. Figures and outlines in specific environments gradually disappear, allowing the viewer to enter a world where presence is expressed through atmosphere and subconsciousness rather than through form and concreteness.
ZEBONE (1982) is another writer who crossed the boundaries between the street and the gallery scene and joined the ever-growing trend of recent years characterized by the gradual penetration of the graffiti language into the space of free art without attributions. ZEBONE's paintings, mostly consistently based on formats, have been characterized from the beginning by a flat purist style of "ruler" geometry. ZEBONE is a systematicist and in a way a minimalist. Although in some cases he progresses and shifts the visuality of his compositions intuitively, they are always preceded by preparatory sketches that verify the effectiveness of their construction. This is subsequently complemented by a steady, precise implementation process down to the last detail, proven by previous experience. By not avoiding experimentation, which is a natural part of his artistic thinking, but at the same time practicing it in completely rational and controlled conditions, the process of creating his paintings can be compared, with a little necessary exaggeration, to laboratory work.
Linda Kemrová (*1999) is a painter and co-creator of the brand 2girls1rug, which she shares with her twin sister Aneta. Linda creates tufted tapestries, which are sometimes used to make fashion accessories sewn by her sister. She also hand-crochets original hats. Her work is characterized by playfulness, naive motifs and deliberate exaggeration.