With the exhibition Zero Tolerance, Aleš's South Bohemian Gallery will present one of the most prominent Czech painters of the middle generation, Julius Reichel. Coincidentally, this artist comes from South Bohemia and his work is still partly created here.
For his work, Reichel draws on mass culture and civilizational phenomena. In the broadest sense of the word, he "recycles" physical and informational matter, which fills both our everyday consumer life, as well as communication and imagination. His paintings in particular reflect the speed and chaos of the times, the intricate information flows, the constant transformation of words into hashtags and images into memes. If we do not consider pop art as a closed historical chapter or as a specific aesthetic register, then Reichel offers its current equivalent.
Like many younger visual artists, Julius Reichel (born 1981) initially focused on graffiti. However, from 2010 to 2016 he studied in Jiří David's painting studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. He has been exhibiting regularly in galleries since the beginning of the last decade. However, he has placed a number of objects that he created from found materials in public spaces in a guerrilla manner. He is represented by the Karpuchina Gallery in Prague. He works on paintings and objects alternately in Prague and in his birthplace, Zvíkov u Velešína in South Bohemia. He took his professional pseudonym from his great-grandfather, in whose apartment in České Budějovice he once lived.
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