Andrej Dubravsky
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
Bathers (after Henry Scott Tuke), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 47 1/4 in (140 x 120 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
Caterpillar named Katarina, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
41 1/3 x 33 3/4 in (105 x 86 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
Red party on the rocks, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
29 1/4 x 24 3/4 in (74 x 63 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
“look over your shoulder," 2020
Acrylic on canvas
37 1/2 x 24 3/4 in (95 x 63 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky
Blue caterpillar with red dots and orange leaf, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
37 1/2 x 30 1/3 in (95 x 77 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
Untitled (party boy with the red glasses), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
28 1/3 x 22 in (72 x 56 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky
Three friends at the best outdoor party ever, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
35 1/2 x 31 1/2 in (90 x 80 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky
Untitled (little blue party with round glasses), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
21 1/4 x 20 1/2 in (54 x 52 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
Untitled (handsome young man with the shroom cut), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
25 2/3 x 21 2/3 in (65 x 55 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky
Untitled (jogging guy with air pods), 2020
Acrylic on canvas
26 1/3 x 21 2/3 in (67 x 55 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, Aggressive Slav, LAUNCH F18, New York
October 24 - December 12, 2020
Andrej Dubravsky
My hairy caterpillar, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
49 2/3 x 45 1/4 in (126 x 115 cm)
Andrej Dubravsky, 2020
LAUNCH F18 is pleased to present Aggressive Slav, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Andrej Dubravsky. Aggressive Slav opens Saturday, October 24, 2020 and will remain on view through Saturday, December 12, 2020. The exhibition marks Dubravsy’s first solo exhibition in New York City.
Inspired by contemporary global issues, Dubravsky captures a remarkable breadth of social, environmental and political challenges in his new body of work. Charged with utopian and dystopian themes, Dubravsky builds a throughline around the sense that humanity is on the precipice of darkness.
As a child, Andrej frequently traveled to his grandmother’s house in the countryside of Slovakia passing by a large factory on his way. When his grandmother moved to the city, Andrej bought a house nearby to remain connected to nature.
Aggressive Slav constructs a haunting narrative that the lines of history have been drawn. From coiled caterpillars to portraits of attractive young men, the works demonstrate a juxtaposition between the destructive qualities of humanity and the delicacy of expressive freedom. From his home in the countryside, Andrej has captured a distinctive viewpoint of the ever-present social, political and environmental changes in our world.
By expanding these universally concerning ideas, Andrej crosses the boundary of painting, and enters into a new and unseen future. The works remain deeply connected to the history of mankind and capture a distinctive blueprint of our destiny. Aggressive Slav thoughtfully engages with the endurance of humanity and the careless destruction that it relentlessly casts upon the world.
Andrej Dubravsky was born in 1987 in Nove Zamky, SK. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2013. Andrej has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally, including monumental gallery and museum exhibitions such as: "Golden Sands,' Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, DE (2012); "Sunsets Comments Insects Downloads," Zahorian & Co Gallery, Bratislava, SK (2014); “Rural Desires,” Bratislava City Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (2015); “Emission and Secretions, Galleria Richter, Rome, Italy (2019); "Potential Wasted," Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE (2019) and "Lava Run," Atelier XIII, Bratislava, SK (2019) among others. Andrej lives and works in Rastislavice, Slovakia and New York City.
Andrej Dubravsky speaks to Sam Trioli about his new paintings for his current dual exhibition at LAUNCH F18, Aggressive Slav and Friendly Slav. Created from his countryside home in rural Slovakia, Andrej shares the effects on his work and life with returning to nature.
Andrej Dubravsky’s painting themes vary unlimitedly using techniques conveyed through gestural and figurative iconography. His paintings contain a plethora of contradictory imagery; from impressive roosters to young male figures.
Andrej Dúbravský uses the unforgiving and irreversible alla prima technique on raw canvas to produce his works. Not only the medium he uses but also the objects and subjects of some of his paintings convey atmosphere clouded in smoke, mist, mystery and vague arousal.