Dokoupil

An attentive eye is needed to keep track of the infinitely subtle shades of creative breadth in the work of Jiri Dokoupil (Krnov, 1954); a Czech artist living and working in Madrid and Berlin, whose creative abilities are so eclectic as to seem almost whimsical. Northern landscapes and bullfights, portraits, self-portraits, still life and abstract works have been some of the artist's chosen subjects within the last three years, constituting a body of work already exhibited at an international level and recognized by the most important European museums in the world. This monograph, rich from an iconographic point of view, and essential from a critical point of view, documents a corpus of still unexhibited work realized between 1999 and 2001. In addition, forty works in various formats (for which the artist drew from the most diverse materials; from soot to soap bubbles) and two aluminum sculptures, offer an array of possibilities for studying an artist considered today to be at the forefront of avant-garde painting.