Michaela Černická, Jiří Černický – Dvě desetinné čárky uprostřed věty

Michaela and Jiří Černický are a couple who have two children together. Jiří is a multimedia artist, writer and, until recently, active in education. Michaela restores artworks, illustrates books and paints. Their creative careers are separate yet intertwined. Although their work differs in many ways, they have exhibited together several times in recent years. Despite their differences, their long-standing coexistence creates an artistic harmony that similar exhibitions render audible. Jiří is able to create highly expressive, manifesto-like work that is offset by a level of quiet introspection and meditative listening. Especially when confronted with his partner’s oeuvre, we realise how he manages to speak through the gaps between words. Michaela rarely steps out of the medium of painting and drawing and her work has a more personal character than Jiří’s. However, it transcends the details of her life story and surprises us with the universality of her experience. Her subtle interventions take place within a global semantic field and, despite their modest scale, can deafen us with the power of their message.