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Franiel
Immerse yourself in a dark world on the edge of gentleness and brutality.
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I was born on October 7, 1989. I started drawing at school, where I tried to entertain myself during long lessons by escaping into my imaginary worlds. I successfully passed the talent exams for the art school of textile design in Hradec Králové, and in my first year, which took place mainly in studios, I had the opportunity to learn the basics of color theory, still life painting, and portrait drawing. However, I soon realized that textile design was not the right path for me. After the first year, I quit my studies and began to devote all my free time to painting, which had become my passion.
I have always been fascinated by mystery, mysticism, and the occult, which often reflect in my work, but my main focus has been on emotions. However, the way I express everything on canvas has undergone a significant transformation over the 15 years that I have been painting.
At first, I built my alter ego in a world destroyed by the Apocalypse, where I recorded a world of destruction, silence, and loneliness through the eyes of a surviving artist. This attempt to describe the fall of civilization was eventually replaced by my first surrealist paintings, and my artistic expression shifted from concrete forms to the fantastical constructs of my subconscious and the search for balance between gentleness and brutality in a world where the laws of nature do not apply, dreams become reality, and death is just a progression to the next level. Painting has become an internal dialogue for me, and together with my love of detail, it has begun to fulfill an almost therapeutic function, thanks to which I am able to sit at my work for up to 200 hours. I hide my own experiences in my paintings and, with the help of symbolism and grotesque metaphors, I tell a completely new story in which the viewer discovers the power of love, the beauty of pain, and the necessity of inner silence.
My greatest inspirations include Hieronymus Bosch, William Turner, and H.R. Giger, but I was most affected by the paintings of Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. The dark aesthetics of his works have significantly influenced the way I perceive structure, anatomy, and form, and my focus on these aspects has deepened even further in my work.
I currently live in Prague, where I work as a painter and patina artist for film props and collaborate on projects for Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon.