Jaroslav Vlasák Biografie

Jaroslav Vlasak was born on October 25, 1961 in Prachatice. He enjoyed drawing and painting ever since his childhood, not imagining that one day he will become a professional artist. He studied at the Secondary Technical school of Chemistry in Tabor, however the chemistry somehow did not thrill him. He left for Krkonose Mountains in search of himself, where for some time he was making a living as a custodian at the Zizka’s Shack. That is where he had met his creative colleague, the woodcarver Petr Slama. Sometime in 1980 he starts to work as an amateur artist, creating abstract compositions. The elements of surrealism which perpetrate his latter work become a certain kind of foundation for his future work as a painter of oil compositions, which bring the beauty of universe closer to us.
Vlasak’s paintings capture the extra-celestial Word and its story so realistically, as though he himself knew it and he himself was the medium which brings its message. His work creates an impression of photographs which were taken on some distant interstellar mission. It doesn’t force us to think, as much as much as it stimulates us to dream. As though the painter would lend a pair of wings to the spectator and gave him the feeling of a trouble-free lightness, so that he could himself fly among he stars and return to the „fine matter world“, to discover „the lost secret at the tree of the knowledge“, or to see the beautiful transformations of the nature during the „Astral Year“. After seeing the paintings the universe suddenly appeal to be less mysterious and strange.
The list of his paintings does not reach any high number; many times he works on one picture for the entire month, working diligently and with great feeling for detail, millimeter by millimeter capturing the beauty of the extra-celestial worlds.
In 1990 Vlasak participated with his works in the collective exhibition at Hybernia Building in Prague and the same year he had his own independent exhibition at the E. F. Burian Theatre. During the years 1992 to 1994 he was painting for a private collector of creative arts in Munich.
In the Prague’s Gallery Depreso he was exhibiting independently during 1993 and two years later he organized an independent retrospective exhibition of his paintings at Pink Hill in the town of Cheb. In the recent years and that is durink 1999 to 2000 he was working for a private collecor in Teplice. Since 2003 a number of private collectors from Austria who presently serve on the Board of Directors of BTS became fascinated with his work.