FRBA
Czech Republic
20 Works exhibited on Kooness
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František Balon, who is known as FRBA, is an artist who has always been passionated about painting, since he was a child. In particular, he admires prehistoric cave paintings, paintings on the walls of chambers in the Egyptian pyramids, and the work of such masters as: Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, Amadeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, also Henri Rousseau, Tadeusz Makowiecki (Polish painter living in France). Among the Czech painters, he admires mainly Ján Zrzavý and Josef Čapek. He tried all art techniques, being interested also in carving. From 1974 to 1985, he was professionally engaged in photography and applied graphics. Then, from the 1990s, he became independent as a graphic artist. At that time, he exhibited quite a lot. In 2013, he travelled to the Canary Islands, where he spent a year, and two years later he went to the south of Sweden. When he lived abroad, he intensively returned to painting. Since 2016, he has definitively settled back in the Czech Republic, where he actually lives in the city of Znojmo.
Even though his swedish friends him "painter of thoughts", he could be classified as a symbolist. His paintings are deliberately freed from details and precision. Associations with ancient cave paintings are also evident on them. The creation of his canvases is a long process, because it started from an idea, which goes through numerous sketches. His travels bring new inspirations to his canvases.
He continues to sporadically work on utility graphics, especially book graphics. Basically, he paints pictures only for himself.
EXHIBITIONS:
- 1973 – Český Těšín, Photographic cycle "Hands";
- 1974 – Bydgoszcz (Poland), Exhibition of prints – Castle in Frýdek-Místek, Color photography – cycle “Reflections”;
- 1975 – Český Těšín, Photographic exhibition of the series "Spring on the Dumpster";
- 1976 – Bydgoszcz (Poland), Collages – Ustroń (Poland), Exhibition of the photography cycle "Memories";
- 1977 – Exhibitions of photography in the Castle in Frýdek-Místek, at the castle in Hukvaldy – Museum in České Těšín, Exhibition of large-scale colored photographs "World of Children" – Opole in Poland, Exhibition of color graphics;
- 1978 – Photography exhibitions at the Castle in Frýdek-Místek and at the castle in Hukvaldy;
- 1979 - Museum of Photography in Krakow (Poland), Retrospective exhibition of photographs and graphics - Bydgoszcz (Poland), Colored large-scale photographs;
- 1984 – Bielsko Biała (Poland), Exhibition of color photography prepared in cooperation with the Czech and Polish Ministries of Culture;
- 1990 – Regional Library in Karviná, Jubilee cycle of photography and graphics;
- 1999 – Regional Library in Karviná, Overview of photographs and graphics from the last 20 years XX. centuries;
- 2018 – he exhibited in Tachov, in the premises of the Sedemdesiatka teahouse;
- 2021 – he participated in the OPEN ART FEST exhibition in Prague. This presentation sparked interest in his work from numerous galleries and private collectors;
- December 2021 to January 2022 – his extensive exhibition of 80 paintings was held at the Grand Café Gallery in Znojmo;
- February 2022 – he exhibited as a guest in the border town of Cieszyn in Poland;
- July 2022 – another author's exhibition of paintings, together with photographs, at the KUPE Gallery in Opava;
- January 2023, he exhibited at the Radosť Gallery in Havířov;
- April 2023 – he exhibited at the Těšín Theater Gallery in České Těšín;
- During the summer months of 2023, friends from Opava prepared an exhibition of his paintings with sacred themes in a restored church in Zlaté Horách-Dolny Údolí.