Painter, Petr Kvíčala, has focused since the mid-1980s up until now on ornament production. A basic element of his creative language is ornamental lines, most often waves, broken lines or loops. He combines, reproduces, melds and layers them in various ways.
His inspiration for this abstract and radically reduced language was originally the landscape, though which Kvíčala somewhere around 1985 realised the autonomous expressive possibilities of geometrical linear elements rhythmically repeated on the image’s surface.
It is characteristic for the rise of Czech post-modern sensibility that at the turn of the 1980s/1990s, theorists associated Kvíčala’s painting with expression outside the avant-garde of modern art. They pointed out similarities between his works and ornamental paintings part of folk architecture (the Waves /Vlny series, 1991). Likewise they noted its relationship to abstract cave paintings (from the Stone Age). Kvíčala indicates his inspiration from „low“ culture by using elements from artistic crafts or from industrial manufacturing. This is reflected in the names of his paintings (Wallpaper / Tapety, 1987-88, Holiday Tablecloths for Weekdays / Sváteční ubrusy pro všední den, 1992-94, Embroidering / Vyšívání, 1993). However, at the initial level, Kvíčala is not concerned about a post-modern game of aligning various languages, but rather he wishes to revive ornamentation as such. He values their visual effectiveness, their rational order and last but not least their possibility for continuous variation. Kvíčala expressed great inventiveness and a taste for experimenting in his intentionally abridged idiomatic dictionary. Among his works we can find a procedural painting (60 Days of Red, Blue and Yellow / 60 dní červené, modré a žluté, 1996), monochromatics and painted installations (Borders / Okraje, 1994). Since the first quarter of the 1990s he has also created painted objects. He also transfers themes for his paintings onto practical objects. He creates designs for clothing and has created a number of carpets of his own design. During the second half of the 1990s he began to work with architects. He has painted several interior paintings (murals). He also participates on concept development for specific spaces (Wall mural in the Sports Hall in Litomyšl, 2001; Decoration for the upholstery for a seating set in the Dům U závoje in Prague, 2003; a ceiling mural for the Deutsche Bundesbank in Chemnitz, 2004; the Celebration Hall at Reduta in Brno, 2005). Kvíčala’s paintings, developed parallel to his other work between 2003-05, express his interest at the time in the optical effects of parallel lines, and in recent months he has turned to more classic forms of contemporary abstraction.
Employment, work:
2012 obtained Professor degree at AFAD in Bratislava
since 1994 professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
2001 associate professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Prague
Awards:
2006 Grand Prix, rekonstrukce divadla Reduta v Brně
1991 Čestná cena Jindřicha Chalupeckého
Art in architecture:
Makarony, reliéfní kresba prsty v hliněné omítce, Korytná, arch. Gustav Křivinka, 2008
Memory, nástěnné a stropní malby pro budovu centrály Rischart, Mnichov, arch. Markus Link, 2007-2008
Nástěnné malby v Redutním sale a kavárně, teracová podlaha v atriu, divadlo Reduta, Brno, arch. Petr Valenta a arch. Antonín Novák, 2005
Barevné teraco, vývtarné řešení podlah a barevnost fasády, nový pavilon nemocnice Milosrdných bratří, Brno, arch. Gustav Křivinka a arch. Aleš Burian, 2005
malba na nerezové desce, recepce MAP studia, Barcelona, arch. J.L. Mateo, 2005
malba na stropě nové budovy Deutsche Bundes Bank, Chemnitz, arch. Josep Lluís Mateo, 2004
barevné řešení fasády a interiérů a návrh potahů sedacího nábytku pro dům "U Závoje" v Praze, rekonstrukce Casua - arch. Oleg Haman, interiéry arch. Gustav Křivinka, 2003
nástěnná malba, rodinný dům ve Lhotě u Prahy, arch.Josef Pleskot, 2003
brána švýcarské ambasády v Praze, rekonstrukce arch. Ivan Koleček, 2002
nástěnné malby v Masarykově onkologickém ústavu v Brně, arch.Gustav Křivinka, 2001
nástěnná malba v exteriéru bowlingové haly v Litomyšli, arch. Petr Pelčák, 2001
rohový obraz pro kavárnu Indigo v Praze, 2001
mozaika - krytý bazén soukromé vily v Brně, arch. Gustav Křivinka, 2000
nástěnná malba ve sportovní hale, Litomyšl, arch. Petr Pelčák a arch. Petr Hrůša, 1999
malba na skle, polytechnika EPFL, Laussane, arch. Ivan Koleček, 1997
nástěnné a stropní malby v restauraci „Zapomenuté podniky" v Kuřimi, 1997
nástěnná malba, Komerční banka, Boskovice, 1996
nástěnná malba, soukromý byt v Laussane, 1995
Petr Kvíčala, March 2006 to August 10th, 2014; březen 2006 až 10.8. 2014, Didot, Brno, 2014, ISBN 978-80-905368-3-8, monografie 245 – 488 str.
Petr Kvíčala, červenec 1984 až 28. 2. 2006, Arbor Vitae, Praha, 2006; ISBN 80-86300-74-9, monografie 1 - 244 str.
Interview with Petr Kvíčala: brnensky.denik.cz/rozhovor/kvicala_rozhovor_20071112.html (in Czech only)