Yakub Diviš

“Yakub Diviš is a distinctive personality of today's art scene in Brno. His story is about the decision to dedicate his life to painting while maintaining his own autonomy and distinctiveness against the influences of great personalities and fashion trends. He is a disruptor of established orders, a painter of the left-hand practice, and a tantric of the art world. When he decides to create, he goes all in. When he feels the desire to pass on something of his art, he opens courses and dedicates himself to students. And so 'The Intruder's Garden' is created – a showcase of his journeys through the world of painting, moving from depictions of concrete things, transformed by macro-perspective into abstraction, to figures or landscapes with surrealistic elements. He seeks the limits and possibilities of oil painting technique and, since 2011, has also dedicated himself to lecturing his own art courses, opening his studio to students of unorthodox painting.”