Jana Kasalová – By Heart

Painter and draughtsman Tomáš Pilař (born 1979) lives and works in the pleasant seclusion of his family home and garden in the village of Podlažice near Chrast in east Bohemia, where he devotes himself undisturbed to thinking and making art. With Pilař, these two activities are inextricably linked: each of his paintings can be described as the unique materialisation of an explorative thought process. This makes it all the more remarkable that his visual poetics are characterised above all by immediacy, natural ease and tactile spontaneity. It is precisely these qualities that lead us to the essence of Pilař’s expression.