Tibor Červeňák - Touches

18.1.2021 - 8.5.2022

Tibor Červeňák / Touches

18. 2. - 8. 5. 2022

Opening 17. 2. 2022 from 5 PM

Regional Museum and Gallery in Most

Čsl. armády 1360/35, Most

Open daily except Monday from 12:00 to 18:00, Sat – Sun from 10:00 to 18:00

The Regional Museum and Gallery in Most presents an exhibition of painter Tibor Červeňák in its gallery spaces. His work is represented in several private collections, in public institutions and galleries around the world as well as in the Czech Republic, and he has had numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums in many European cities and in New York.

Tibor Červeňák was born in 1977 in Hranice na Moravě. From childhood, he attended the studio of medalist and sculptor Mikoláš Rutkovský, and his mentors included artist and educator Zdeněk Smejkal and painter Jaroslav Štěpán. He trained as a painter – lacquerer and briefly studied remotely in the field of painter – restorer in Valašské Meziříčí. Despite all the challenges he faced from childhood, he held onto his desire to paint, and alongside securing a living for himself and his family, he pursued his dream. Since the late 1990s, he began exhibiting under the pseudonym Valerio Ivtodagas and was a member of the Union of Olomouc Artists. In 2004, he moved to Belfast in the UK, where he took on various jobs. There, he also established a five-year collaboration with gallerist Michael Flanagan.

In 2009, he began exhibiting and selling his paintings under his own name to private collections. In the same year, Tibor Červeňák's paintings appeared in the film Paint (directed by Ryan Tohill). In 2011, his activity culminated in a solo exhibition in New York, which was opened by singer and instrumentalist Iva Bittová. From 2009 to 2012, alongside his artistic activity, he practiced kickboxing, which also influenced his experimental work under the name Boxing Painting. Just as in Belfast, he also worked as a taxi driver in Cardiff, where he relocated in 2012. From 2012 to 2015, he studied at the Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University. He continued his studies in London at Chelsea College of Arts, where he obtained a master's degree in 2016. He returned to Czech exhibition halls and galleries in 2019 and currently lives and creates in Prague.

Tibor Červeňák's paintings are represented in private collections, public institutions, and galleries around the world as well as in the Czech Republic. For example, works from his final exhibition of his bachelor's degree were purchased by Bath Spa University. He also exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy in the English city of Bristol, where he won the main prize for the best painting created with mixed techniques for his painting MY Monet.

He has exhibited his paintings in galleries not only in European cities (Prague, Vienna, Stockholm, Helsinki, Paris, Venice, Berlin, London, Bristol, Belfast) but also in New York. In 2019, he returned to his hometown of Hranice with a major exhibition Horses and Women at the Museum Gallery Synagogue. He continues to exhibit in Czech exhibition halls and galleries in collaboration with ZaZa Gallery.

Exhibition author: Radana Zapletalová

Exhibition curator: Olga Kubelková

Photography: Pavel Krásenský

Graphic design: Marek Jodas

Admission: 30 CZK full (adults) / 15 CZK reduced (students and seniors)

Contact for journalists: Radana Zapletalová, +420 605 851 340, zazagalerieseznam.cz

More information and accompanying programs for the exhibition: www.muzeummost.cz, https://www.facebook.com/mostmuzeum/