The cycle Cubes A3, 180 cm x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2009
The cycle Cubes B4, 60 cm x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2009
The cycle Objects - Sol LeWitt 1963 II, 200 cm x 200 cm, acrylic, spray and oil marker on canvas, 2014
The cycle Construction set IX., 195 cm x 150 cm, acrylic and spray on canvas, 2008
The cycle Construction set VII., 160 cm x 130 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2008
The cycle System, construction, order, City I., 150 cm x 190 cm, acrylic and spray on canvas, 2009
The cycle Strokes V., 30 cm x 120 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2009
The cycle Strokes VII., 50 cm x 45 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2009
The cycle Objects - El Lissickij 1923, 182cm x 208,5cm, acrylic and spray on canvas, 2010
The cycle Objects – Sol LeWitt (1965), 260 cm x 80 cm, acrylic and spray on canvas, 2010
The cycle System, construction, order, City II., 150 cm x 190 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2009
The cycle Chairs, B. Naumans Chair (1965 – 1968), 65cm x 51cm, acrylic, spray and oil marker on canvas, 2010
I met David Hanvald through Stanislav Diviš. It was quite logical because I visit Diviš at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, and David was one of his students. At his senior year, he was also a “student” of Louis Kahn. David is very logically minded painter. Cultivated, but nestled in logical thinking. Precisely speculating about possibilities and constructions. So Louis Kahn was just the right hit. However, it was not always just Kahn. For example, four or five years ago, he painted on on the back of paintings. The paint soaked through the canvas and created a strangely trembling, fog-like blurred structure. Bridge with cars or even a flower. In any case, it was a strangely shifted reality. But this did not satisfy David Hanvald’s creative search. Consider the series of paintings that he created around 2007. Transformed variations of classic modernists with use of their techniques. No more "soaking through”, but hard painting of strange patterns of lines and intersections. Large formats Kubišta, Zrzavý. And then, it was just a step to Kahn.
David Hanvald lives in Liberec and I really like this city. I like to visit there and I regard a “recommendation” that someone is from Liberec a recommendation of quality. At least, Ondřej Kopal is also from Liberec... And what about Louis Kahn then? Look at David Hanvald’s graduate series of paintings. Kahn’s ground plan sketches interpreted by him turn into some sort of strangely intertwined, geometrical universe. It is also a new world, which does not deny its initial source of inspiration.