Vojtěch Kovařík has an interest in grand heroic themes and classical imagery inspired by greek mythology. Kovařik’s bodies are without place, tightly situated within the parameters of the canvas edge.  Their contemplative and sometimes anguished expressions are set amongst vacant ethereal landscapes with lilac gradient skies and metallic moonscapes. The figures’ skin and bodies often appear chiseled and rock-like. One can draw historical through-lines from the great works of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, the late classical period of Renoir, Picasso’s robust 1921 summer production in Fontainebleau and the large-scale murals of Rufino Tamayo. His contemporary influences include the Neo-expressionist Markus Lüpertz and Georg Baselitz. In all of their godliness, Kovařik’s protagonists present as agonized and in state of mourning or…