Miroslav Spadrna (pintorcheco) - El último refugio de la luz
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Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)’s original, hand-signed acrylic painting on canvas, titled “El último refugio de la luz”, was made in 2026 and measures 90 × 60 cm.
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The Last Refuge of Light
Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)
Acrylic on canvas | 90 × 60 cm | 2026
Amid fragmented structures and deep shadows, light struggles to endure.
Intense blues and golden glimmers reveal a universe where matter holds the memories of time.
“Perhaps eternity is not a place where everything remains, but where the last light refuses to die.”
Miroslav Spadrna, known artistically as Pintorcheco, was born in 1968 in the Czech Republic and is currently pursuing his artistic practice in Almería, Spain.
His artistic career spans several decades. Since his first exhibitions in the former Czechoslovakia and later in Spain, his painting has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a more commercially oriented figurative style toward a personal language situated between abstraction and figuration.
He works primarily with acrylic on canvas, building surfaces through layers, transparencies, impasto, palette-knife work, incisions, and spontaneous gestures. Matter, color, and light are the essential elements of his visual language.
Deep blues, indigos, and turquoises engage in a dialogue with yellows, magentas, reds, and golden glimmers. From these surfaces emerge fragmented architectures, submerged cities, portals, vessels, human figures, trees, and constellations that seem to exist between reality, memory, and dream.
His recent explorations are brought together in series such as Portals of Indigo, Submerged Structures, Geography of Blue, Hidden Thresholds, and The Flute of Silence, in which he develops recurring themes such as memory, silence, travel, transformation, and the search for light.
Throughout his career, Spadrna has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain and other European countries. His solo exhibitions include Krkonošské pohoří in the Czech Republic (1990), the Mis colores exhibitions in El Ejido, Spain (1993–1995), and his participation in the Museo MundoArti International Exhibition in Valencia in 2024.
His recent international career includes projects and exhibitions in Milan, Paris, Venice, Málaga, Barcelona, and Almería, as well as repeated participation in Berja Arte and exhibitions associated with Almería Cathedral.
His honors include the European Artist Award, Milan 2023, the European Artist Award, Florence 2025, and his appointment as Coordinator of Art and Painting for the Czech Republic in 2021. His career also includes an artist residency in Garachico, Tenerife, in 1997 and recognition in international contemporary art competitions.
His work currently circulates through platforms and international markets specializing in contemporary art and has been included in private collections. His practice continues to evolve from Spain, delving further into a style of painting in which matter, memory, emotion, and light create spaces of powerful sensory intensity.
For Spadrna, the canvas is not a closed image but a territory of experience. Painting does not seek to explain everything; it invites viewers to cross the surface and shape their own relationship with what remains between the visible and the unknown.
In 2027, EvolucionArts Art Center will present a solo exhibition devoted to his work, bringing together a selection of 25 pieces representative of different periods in his practice.
The Last Refuge of Light
Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)
Acrylic on canvas | 90 × 60 cm | 2026
Amid fragmented structures and deep shadows, light struggles to endure.
Intense blues and golden glimmers reveal a universe where matter holds the memories of time.
“Perhaps eternity is not a place where everything remains, but where the last light refuses to die.”
Miroslav Spadrna, known artistically as Pintorcheco, was born in 1968 in the Czech Republic and is currently pursuing his artistic practice in Almería, Spain.
His artistic career spans several decades. Since his first exhibitions in the former Czechoslovakia and later in Spain, his painting has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a more commercially oriented figurative style toward a personal language situated between abstraction and figuration.
He works primarily with acrylic on canvas, building surfaces through layers, transparencies, impasto, palette-knife work, incisions, and spontaneous gestures. Matter, color, and light are the essential elements of his visual language.
Deep blues, indigos, and turquoises engage in a dialogue with yellows, magentas, reds, and golden glimmers. From these surfaces emerge fragmented architectures, submerged cities, portals, vessels, human figures, trees, and constellations that seem to exist between reality, memory, and dream.
His recent explorations are brought together in series such as Portals of Indigo, Submerged Structures, Geography of Blue, Hidden Thresholds, and The Flute of Silence, in which he develops recurring themes such as memory, silence, travel, transformation, and the search for light.
Throughout his career, Spadrna has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Spain and other European countries. His solo exhibitions include Krkonošské pohoří in the Czech Republic (1990), the Mis colores exhibitions in El Ejido, Spain (1993–1995), and his participation in the Museo MundoArti International Exhibition in Valencia in 2024.
His recent international career includes projects and exhibitions in Milan, Paris, Venice, Málaga, Barcelona, and Almería, as well as repeated participation in Berja Arte and exhibitions associated with Almería Cathedral.
His honors include the European Artist Award, Milan 2023, the European Artist Award, Florence 2025, and his appointment as Coordinator of Art and Painting for the Czech Republic in 2021. His career also includes an artist residency in Garachico, Tenerife, in 1997 and recognition in international contemporary art competitions.
His work currently circulates through platforms and international markets specializing in contemporary art and has been included in private collections. His practice continues to evolve from Spain, delving further into a style of painting in which matter, memory, emotion, and light create spaces of powerful sensory intensity.
For Spadrna, the canvas is not a closed image but a territory of experience. Painting does not seek to explain everything; it invites viewers to cross the surface and shape their own relationship with what remains between the visible and the unknown.
In 2027, EvolucionArts Art Center will present a solo exhibition devoted to his work, bringing together a selection of 25 pieces representative of different periods in his practice.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Miroslav Spadrna (pintorcheco)
Title of artwork
El último refugio de la luz
Technique
Acrylic painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
90 cm
Width
60 cm
Weight
2 kg
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Period
2020+
