Pavel Rehurek-Contemporary Art
BIO Pavel Rehurek was influenced by some Czech and Slovak émigré artists in the late sixties and seventies. He has since then been involved in fashion photography, worked in the photographic research lab at a Canadian university, assisted a leading portrait artist and exhibited his photo based graphic art prints in Europe and the U.S. He left the art scene for missionary and teaching work. He recently re-emerged as a contemporary artist whose fine art photography and digital media fusion demonstrate his passion for the figurative, expressionist style of art. He offers his unique works printed on paper.
phone: 604.720.1314
email: digitalgraphy@gmail.com
website: www.rehurek.comARTIST'S STATEMENT "I have always understood good artist to be a 'mirror' to the world outside us and within - no comments and no statements, because what we create gets an interpretation anyway - by our artistic instinct, our subject or media we choose. We therefore should not try to speak for the beauty. It has its own lips. For this reason I came to reject being some sort of a crossbreed (e.g. artist-revolutionary, artist-preacher, artist-tutor), for we all create in the treachery of our heart and we are all mistaken. Yes, I found the creation process is not unlike love, the real one I mean, the one we miss. That's why I hang on. Photography is a mirror by its nature. My first childhood photograph was a b&w contact and when I have seen it my emotions were the same as those I much later found with a girl. Later I married and worked as a photographer. Then the digital era came and the same thing repeated - I altered my first snapshots in Photoshop and it gave me quite a severe 'mid-life crisis'. But do not make a mistake here. My intent is to invigorate and inspire you, to bring a little diversion or just suspend your thought for a moment - otherwise I would buy myself a red Porsche and color my grey hair. I prefer art. It is much better mistress, almost perfectly treacherous."
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