the essence of life on mars

Concept

Emerging artist Filip Pavlik’s has a very hands-on approach of his art practice. Influenced by American expressionism and French impressionism, light and color combinations play a decisive part in his abstract paintings.Particularly impressed by Jackson Pollock’s action painting, Pavlik’s technique is ultimately physical. The painter engages is whole body in the painting process, leaning the canvas on the ground and using classical brushes,wall painting brushes, sticks and his own hands directly on the surface.Initially trained as an architect, Filip Pavlik soon turned to painting to explore his inner creativity. Sketches and drawing plans were replaced by all overpaintings where his unconscious lead way to abstraction.Science, nature, substance, patterns, organic structures and microorganisms are his daily source of inspiration, which Pavlik balances with geometrical lines, structures andarchitectural forms.