Levitationen/Levitations

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Résumé en 4ème de couverture: "The crucial thing is the act of painting itself. I am very critical with respect to my work, or let's say, decidedly destructive. As a result, more layers of paint have gradually come to be applied to my paintings, wich are actually leftlovers from previous paintings that didn't work out. Either I didn't like the composition, or the brushwork wasn't right, so that I would intensively overpaint the first, or third, or sometimes even the fifth attemps. As a result, the previous layers became full-fledged elements of the work. They are in a sense torsi and momentos. Through the process of overpainting and destruction, I become aware of the substance and the content of what I'm painting." Vladimír Houdek