DIRECTORY 2026

Jaroslav Drazil | Painting

Jaroslav Dražil is a contemporary visual artist whose work explores the emotional fractures of human existence. Born in Austria, raised in Germany, and shaped by Czech and Roma heritage, his biography reflects a deep engagement with identity, vulnerability, and inner resilience. For many years, he worked in theatre as a mask maker, an experience that profoundly shaped his understanding of the human face as a carrier of inner truth.

His paintings focus on figurative scenes set within carefully balanced, often surreal landscapes. They depict moments of tension between control and surrender, isolation and connection, protection and exposure. Dražil’s visual language combines precise realism with symbolic reduction. The figures appear both intimate and distant, embedded in rhythmic, almost meditative structures.

His work does not offer clear answers. Instead, it opens spaces for ambiguity, emotional reflection, and silent transformation. His paintings invite the viewer to confront vulnerability not as weakness, but as a fundamental human state.

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