Curator Ivona Raimanová: "Perfect painting technique, realistic depiction, imagination and fiction represent key anchoring points of Smet's works. These main aspects distance the author's creation from the previous generation of painters. The factually austere conceptional approach gives way to fantasy narration. Abstract conception or an abstracting handwriting transform into a detailed examination of reality."
She continues: "Brushstrokes roughly sketched as if hurried become in Smet's paintings consciously constructed spatial forms. Controversial socially engaged themes were omitted, and the focus becomes an introspective inquiry into the alternative life of the author's ego."
Size: 155x140 cm
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