Groundwork

Motionless Motion

By Karl Cole and Robb Sandagata, posted on Aug 3, 2023

Jan Kaláb is a Czech painter, sculptor, and street artist whose work is characterized by brilliant, often Day-Glo colors. Since he became a pioneer of street art in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, his work has evolved to include sculpture, traditional painting, and installation art. No matter the art form, vivid color, multilayered compositions, and illusionistic abstraction are at the core of Kaláb’s art. Kaláb calls the pulsating sensations created through his juxtaposition of brilliant colors “motionless motion.”

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