'Moment 51,' by Marko Kratohvil, Acrylic and Ink Painting

This acrylic and ink painting on paper by Marko Kratohvil is a explosion of red, black white and grey colors painted with energetic gestural movements. Large concentric circles form at the base of the painting with spears of color intersecting in a center white cloud of space. The painting is archival matted and framed with a black wooden contemporary frame.

'Kratohvil’s drawings and sculptures share the aspiration to investigate the relationship between form and space. In both media he searches for balance in the dynamics of independent forms and the unity of all elements as a whole, which is characterized equally by structural order and respect for visual aspects. Lines in his drawings, in the same way as the forms in sculptures, always imply the motion, rhythm, and speed of the movement in space, conveying potential energy. This is expressed in their mutual relationship and within the individual elements as an illustration of the vigor of a single moment. The inexpressible and elusive specific moment, that sculptures and drawings tend to enhance. ' -- Marko Kratohvil

Marko Kratohvil was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1958. He graduated and received a master's degree in sculpture at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in the class of Professor Nikola Koka Jankovic. After the Belgrade period he established his practice in London, UK for the next 20 years. In 2009 he relocated to USA where he lives and works at the present.

He has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and USA, completed many public art projects and his works are held in numerous corporate and private collections.