Jiri Beranek

Beranek's work as a whole comes across as a recollection of the latent sensibility and openness of man which are shrouded by the age-old veil of sophistication and vanity of human progress in the material and broader civilization-related sense. His realisations are not simply define statements - "this is space and this is how it is meant to be, this is man and this is how he is meant to be" - but much more a constantly exploratory and incisive revealing of the connecting joints of space and time which can appear as places preserving and orienting life, or else as mysterious cracks, passageways yo an unknown destination. This is certainly why his works recall the intensity of the expression of prehistoric art which was never created as art, and the cut of the axe in the hand of a man building a dwelling in the same way for centuries.

In his work, Beranek half-reveals a sensed world of myth, a world in the "twilight of memory". He does not do so with signs or symbols that are externally accepted or historically established, however, buts leads us into it through the sculpture work, material, space and time of his objects. In doing so, he highlights that we can receive the world as a self-renewing sign, the language of creation, as an offer and an invitation, ultimately as the language of what transcends us.