HYB4 Galerie: Jan Stolín: The Gloss of the Night

Jan Stolín (*1966) is a visual artist and professor at FUA TUL, known for his explorations of space, light, and material. For the White Gallery HYB4, he creates a site-specific intervention where black pigment transforms light into matter and architecture into a silent visual experience.

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The white, dematerialized, dimensionless space of the gallery calls forth in the mind a contrast of brightness and darkness — extreme sensations that are the two sides of a single coin. One is expressed through the gleaming surface of a golden drapery that openly defies capture; the other through the black underpainting and pigment that flakes from the wall and scatters across the floor.

The opposing poles of Jan Stolín’s latest exhibition, The Gloss of the Night, unfold thresholds of sensory and mental transitions. They allow irreconcilable states to resonate — the artificial and the raw, the blurred and the precise. Each is embodied by a different technique: on one side, the impersonal, synthetic digital print magnifying a detail to the edge of legibility; on the other, a large-scale drawing executed directly on the bare walls, conceived as a physical act.

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C.0 HYB4 Galerie is open from Monday to Friday 9a.m.-8p.m. Entrance to the gallery is through Kavárna Kampus.

The opening will take place on 21. 11. 2025 from 6p.m. in C.0 HYB4 Galerie.

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Curators: Karel Srp, Filip Kazda

Text author: Karel Srp

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Media partner: Kudyznudy.cz