Jaroslav Grodl
(CZ)

Pure Beauty is a pseudonym, which is to be a summary „manifesto“. It is meant just as a reference to objects (pictures, drawings…) themselves. It shouldn’t include biographical facts, professional scalps, erudite explications of an art gesture or information on context. It should leave all these information unsaid, leave them aside as unnecessary and diverting the attention from the essential. Such information could be perhaps useful to fulfil the ambitions of an artist to be in the institutional sense of the word, in the sense of the success in art traffic and subsequent art history writing. But for Pure Beauty, the art itself is only a question of the purity and the truth, if there is any of these qualities, in objects. Pure Beauty finds some kind of beauty in sincerity, directness. But it is not a matter of haughtily mentoring, it is rather a succession of attemptions, asking about here and now, with and within the notion of the admirable firm continuity of past art.

(Photo © the artist)