Igor Hosnedl (born 1988, lives and works in the Czech Republic) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 2007 to 2013 and is represented by EIGEN + ART since 2019. His works evoke striking images with an amazing colour palette. Floral patterns, female figures with flowing hair and shiny surfaces merge to create a clinical overall work of art. However, closer inspection of the seemingly perfect surfaces reveals cuts and abrasions. Although Igor Hosnedl's artworks are surreal, they are more emotionally ambiguous, veering from sensual and serene to quietly sinister through variations in colour, line and installation. Each invented landscape feels vaguely familiar yet simultaneously alien.
The many layers of Hosnedl’s opaque style of painting are sometimes reminiscent of the still lifes of the Old Masters, who worked without artificial light. Then again, the often faceless figures, seemingly existing in a vacuum, often give rise to associations with the Pittura Metafisica of a Giorgio de Chirico, and some of the enigmatically isolated objects recall the Surrealist Kay Sage. Painting is always an extremely personal matter, and not just for artists. Depending on his or her emotional state, every viewer can find something very individual for himself or herself. If one gives Hosnedl’s peculiar painting a longer look, all the emotions between consternation and delight are possible! One thing is certain: these pictures won’t leave viewers unmoved.
Igor Hosnedl has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, for example at Kunsthalle Bratislava (CZ); Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany); Nicodim Galerie (Bucharest, Romania); X Museum (Peking, China); Collectors Room (Hamburg, Germany); Hunt Kastner, (Prague, CZ); Galerie NOD (Prague, CZ); Galerie Fait (Brno, CZ); Galerie Jelení (Prague, CZ); Downs & Ross (New York, USA); the Foundation and Centre for Contemporary Arts in Prague (CZ); and Kunstraum PS120 (Berlin, Germany).