Dreams

Text by Noel Cramer from:
"The Art of Ludek Pesek"

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A selection of 24 "metaphorical" or "surrealistic-poetic" works, as the artist used to call them. Cosmic elements are almost always present. The first three "Transformation" paintings exploit conflicting visions of a landscape using a same basic template and were painted at different periods of the artist's life as can be seen from the evolution of their technical rendering. The last three images on page 9 make use of definitely classical backgrounds to enhance the unexpected allegory of a floating timepiece reflecting, maybe, the gradual erosion of the mountain landscape by time; of a violin growing out of a tree symbolising harmony in nature or of an axe planted into a dead tree though carrying the promise of life by sprouting leaves from its handle. The first two images on page 10 can be perceived as jests due to their paradoxical nature. The one we have named "The lure of the apple" is probably the most densely symbolic of Pesek's known works. Using multiple metaphors via its depiction of "dubious virginity" associated with symbols of both hope and despondency, it is very different from the more explicit suggestion of "tyranny" in the next work.

Transformation 1	Transformation 2
Water 1	Water 2
Transformation 3	Water 3
Water of life	Precarious blue
Hope	Erosion
Sone of life	Paradox of life
The lure of the apple	Tyranny
Long distance call	Philosophy
Distant navigation	Taking seed

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