Imrich Tomáš
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Biography
Imrich Tomáš was born in Slovakia and already as a child showed an extraordinary artistic talent. His artistic urge to interpret the world in paintings and sculptures made him an outsider in the socialist society, in which there was no perspective for his aesthetic view and the freedom of his artistic work.
He came to West Berlin and initially earned his living as an unskilled laborer. In his free time he took painting lessons and met the young Berlin art scene in Kreuzberg bars. There Imrich Tomas found access to literature, philosophy, art and painting history - and contact with artists from all over the world. In 1974 Imrich Tomas successfully applied to the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1980 he finished his studies in the department "Fine Arts" with a master student award. Since 1982 Imrich Tomáš has been a German citizen and lived and worked in Berlin.
Every single work of art exudes the uncompromising urge for freedom, the depth and fullness of an art that is always one step ahead of the world.
Delicate threads of flax and hemp appear surprisingly stable on closer inspection, for unyielding lacquered surfaces in rich colors take on the form of an elegant, even light components in a landscape of forms that is unique to each object. Whether openwork, interwoven structures reveal the development of the picture down to the first, the birth layer, or whether the surface is or whether the surface appears closed, does not detract from its depth. Color and layers build rhythmically upon one another and become a powerful overall of structures, colors, materials, transparency and depth.
The compositions of hemp, synthetic resin, varnish, string, paper and air merge into ever new worlds of their own, transporting the viewer into a hitherto unknown, magical dimension.
He came to West Berlin and initially earned his living as an unskilled laborer. In his free time he took painting lessons and met the young Berlin art scene in Kreuzberg bars. There Imrich Tomas found access to literature, philosophy, art and painting history - and contact with artists from all over the world. In 1974 Imrich Tomas successfully applied to the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1980 he finished his studies in the department "Fine Arts" with a master student award. Since 1982 Imrich Tomáš has been a German citizen and lived and worked in Berlin.
Every single work of art exudes the uncompromising urge for freedom, the depth and fullness of an art that is always one step ahead of the world.
Delicate threads of flax and hemp appear surprisingly stable on closer inspection, for unyielding lacquered surfaces in rich colors take on the form of an elegant, even light components in a landscape of forms that is unique to each object. Whether openwork, interwoven structures reveal the development of the picture down to the first, the birth layer, or whether the surface is or whether the surface appears closed, does not detract from its depth. Color and layers build rhythmically upon one another and become a powerful overall of structures, colors, materials, transparency and depth.
The compositions of hemp, synthetic resin, varnish, string, paper and air merge into ever new worlds of their own, transporting the viewer into a hitherto unknown, magical dimension.