roman turcel
Slovensko 🇸🇰
He was born in May 1974 in Bojnice, Czechoslovakia. He has been systematically engaged in visual art, utilizing a wide range of techniques and their combinations, since the age of eighteen. He works professionally as a graphic artist, designer, and gallery owner. Roman Turcel’s artistic work is driven by a strong need to provoke reflection and raise questions. To express this, he employs an original arsenal of artistic forms characteristic of his style.
His paintings are dominated by depictions of the human body, ESPECIALLY THE HAND, as its most refined embodiment. At the same time, it represents a sort of philosophical elaboration on Michelangelo’s theme of the divine hand extended to Adam, a touch that is salvific and healing. The softness and glazed quality of the painterly rendering of the human body—often revealing a natural foundation—along with the fluidity and a certain tenderness of the figures on the canvas, are reminiscent of El Greco’s work. In recent years, Roman Turcel has devoted himself to philosophically coherent, non-commercial projects. For example, in the project *Let’s Shake Hands*, he assigned the titles and contents of his works to well-known global citizens, whom he invited to inscribe their own messages into his paintings in their own handwriting.
So far, singer Sting, director Miloš Forman, singer Peter Dvorský, and the Tibetan spiritual and secular leader, the Dalai Lama, have participated. He has recently created a 4.5-meter-tall sculpture on the Náplavka made from used cans he collected in Prague. When it comes to presenting his works, he likes to use public spaces where people can move freely...
