Lubomír Typlt

The paintings of Lubomír Typlt (1975) have long enjoyed success in the Czech Republic and abroad. Typlt’s artistic style took shape during his student years, first at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design, where he studied under Jiří Šalamoun, and subsequently under Jiří Načeradský at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. He gained additional experience abroad, where he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Markus Lüpertz, Gerhard Merz, and A. R. Penck) before spending two years working in Berlin. Besides his artistic practice, since his student days he has made music with the band WWW Neurobeat. His art is mainly figural in nature, consisting of large-format images of people, especially children. In this, he moves between two positions: static, repeated images of one figure or portrait on the one hand, and dynamic narrative compositions in which children’s games create ritualistic or symbolic scenes on the other. Occasionally, these scenes feature familiar literary characters (for instance, Pinocchio) that lend the paintings a moral or allegorical subtext. A typical feature of Typlt’s work is the use of expressive, saturated colors. Lubomír Typlt regularly shows his work at leading Czech galleries and institutions and at foreign exhibitions and art surveys. Some of his most important exhibitions include Levitation at Villa Pellé (2023), Dancing Pentagon at Aleš South Bohemian Gallery (2021–2022), and Ticking Man at Prague City Gallery (2012).