Milan Houser’s creative process is defined primarily by studies of material conditions (the core) for the painting process, his intense interest in light and its effects, and the thematic relationship between photography and painting. His pictures are similar to shadow-type objects, characterised by their expansive format, fascinating in their expressive resources of painting and contrarily for their absence of brush technique or the complicated building of colour composition or innuendo. His obsession with the physical quality of colour and his research of space are evident above all in the installation, Pictures Reflections / Obrazy odrazy. For this project the gallery space was vertically divided by transparent large-format Plexiglas sheets that the artist doused in pearl-like synthetic colours. He later reworked these hanging sheet pictures, which were also part of the project, using a so-called American retouch method and thus created a monochromatic painting, a material abstraction.

Milan Houser first presented his experiments with colour at the Bootstrap exhibit. Prior to this event he had completed a series of images using the same technology called Revers. This concerned a visually-conservative development of shape games for light and shadow; for example, in the moving branches of trees, reflections off water surfaces, the shadow of an electric post. In his older monumental 3D works Space / Prostor and Globe / Koule, Milan Houser attempted to explore the possibility of living (in a) space. This artist’s most recent project Vanitas consists of five Venetian mirrors on which motifs of weapons have been engraved – shells, grenades, machine-guns – but also human skulls, that become a sort of floral arabesque – through decoration. Here the engravings create a juxtaposition to symbols of beauty and prosperity with those of death and killing.

Studies:
1993-2000 Akademie výtvarných umění, Praha
1985-1989 Pefagogická fakulta Masarykovy univerzity v Brně

Stipends and symposiums:
2010
Bánská stanica

2007
Art Symposium Mikulov
Centre Européen d´Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, Francie

1998
Kagoshima, Japonsko

Awards:
2005
Stipendium Pollock-Krasner Foundation

2000
Cena rektora AVU
Stipendista nadace Jany a Milana Jelínkových

2005
Perleti, Galerie Mánes, Praha
Air tech, Galerie ad astra, Kuřim

2003
Revers, Atrium, Pražákův palác, MG, Brno
Bootstrap, Galerie Ars, Brno

2002
Bez názvu, Prostor pro jedno dílo, Pražákův palác, Moravská galerie, Brno

2001
Milan Houser, Muzeum Vyškovska, Vyškov

1993
Těla, Galerie Chodba, PdF MU, Brno

2004
Škola monumentální tvorby, AJG, Hl. n. Vltavou
Nic na odiv...?, Kateřinská zahrada, Praha

2003
Nejmladší, Veletržní palác, NG, Praha

2002-3
Laboratoř současných tendencí,
Veletržní palác, Národní galerie, Praha

2002
Version, Galerie Roxy, Praha

2001
Hermeneutika aneb šuliny si šeptají, Galerie Roxy, Praha

National Gallery in Prague
GJK, Trnava, SK
City Museum Brno
Private collections in the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan and USA

Mikolášek Martin, Tekutost v perleti, A2 kultruní týdeník 17/ 2006, s. 9
Netopil Pavel, Litky Milana Housera, A2 kultruní týdeník 13/ 2008, s. 8