Stefan focuses on the layering of paint. He approaches painting much like an archeologist, who unearths the objects of history and divulges his thought processes through psychoanalytical means. The layering's and clustering's of color are presented to the viewer in the shapes and textures of oil paint. As solid forms turn into liquid, Stefan's technique cannot be reliably pinned down. 

The nostalgic walk through the temple at the acropolis accompanied by gods, demigods, philosophers and citizens is infused with historicity. In his atmospheric paintings Norbert Stefan uses blurry details and abstract fragments. The layers of paint evoke the surfaces of stone, soil and sand, unearthed by archeologists to unravel the shape of history. Stefan's paintings infuse with life blood the veins of Háša's fabled heroes of marble. Accents and clusters of color are transported onto the canvas with the combination of print and layered oil painting. They resemble the compressed periodic tables of chemical reactions. Concurrently, Norbert Stefan draws from psychoanalysis and constructs a whole cosmos through his color prints. His great sensitivity to the complementary nature of certain colors gradually crescendos from the first canvas to the last.

Stefan focuses on the layering of paint. He approaches painting much like an archeologist, who unearths the objects of history and divulges his thought processes through psychoanalytical means. The layering's and clustering's of color are presented to the viewer in the shapes and textures of oil paint. As solid forms turn into liquid, Stefan's technique cannot be reliably pinned down. 

As illusion turns into reality, facts disappear. Time conceals and uncovers but also builds and destroys. Man perceives elapsed time and judges it as either a progression or degeneration. 'Time uncovers the truth', wrote Roman philosopher Seneca: however, for the modern age, 'time uncovers perspectives' would be more apt. Artistic artefacts mirror their historical moment or generate fiction. Ever since Ancient Greece and Rome, humanity was incapable of self-conceptualization through any metric other than the depiction of Man. Not even modern technologies can surpass this formal canon indelibly carved into the collective memory of humanity. Show curated by Karolína Juřicová