Miroslav Spadrna (pintorcheco) - Lo que existe antes de existir
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Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)’s original painting “Lo que existe antes de existir” is hand-signed acrylic on canvas, dated 2026 and measuring 60 × 90 cm.
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What Exists Before It Exists
Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)
Acrylic on canvas · 90 × 60 cm · 2026
There is a moment in the universe when anything is possible, but nothing has yet taken shape.
Between matter, light, and chaos, this work explores the mystery of what precedes existence.
“Perhaps nothing begins when it is born, but much earlier, when it is still invisible”
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. From his first exhibitions in former Czechoslovakia and later in Spain, his painting has undergone a profound transformation, moving from a more commercially oriented figurative style toward a personal visual 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 dialogue with yellows, magentas, reds, and golden glimmers. Fragmented architectures, submerged cities, portals, vessels, human figures, trees, and constellations emerge from these surfaces, seeming to exist somewhere between reality, memory, and dream.
His recent explorations are developed in series such as Indigo Portals, Submerged Structures, Geography of Blue, Hidden Thresholds, and The Flute of Silence, in which he explores 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 shows 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 multiple appearances at 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 awards in international contemporary art competitions.
His work is currently represented on platforms and international marketplaces specializing in contemporary art and has been included in private collections. His practice continues to evolve from Spain, delving deeper into a painting in which matter, memory, emotion, and light construct spaces of intense sensory impact.
For Spadrna, the painting is not a closed image, but a territory of experience. Painting does not seek to explain everything: it invites the viewer to cross the surface and forge 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 works representative of different periods in his practice.
What Exists Before It Exists
Miroslav Spadrna (Pintorcheco)
Acrylic on canvas · 90 × 60 cm · 2026
There is a moment in the universe when anything is possible, but nothing has yet taken shape.
Between matter, light, and chaos, this work explores the mystery of what precedes existence.
“Perhaps nothing begins when it is born, but much earlier, when it is still invisible”
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. From his first exhibitions in former Czechoslovakia and later in Spain, his painting has undergone a profound transformation, moving from a more commercially oriented figurative style toward a personal visual 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 dialogue with yellows, magentas, reds, and golden glimmers. Fragmented architectures, submerged cities, portals, vessels, human figures, trees, and constellations emerge from these surfaces, seeming to exist somewhere between reality, memory, and dream.
His recent explorations are developed in series such as Indigo Portals, Submerged Structures, Geography of Blue, Hidden Thresholds, and The Flute of Silence, in which he explores 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 shows 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 multiple appearances at 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 awards in international contemporary art competitions.
His work is currently represented on platforms and international marketplaces specializing in contemporary art and has been included in private collections. His practice continues to evolve from Spain, delving deeper into a painting in which matter, memory, emotion, and light construct spaces of intense sensory impact.
For Spadrna, the painting is not a closed image, but a territory of experience. Painting does not seek to explain everything: it invites the viewer to cross the surface and forge 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 works representative of different periods in his practice.
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Edition
Original
Artist
Miroslav Spadrna (pintorcheco)
Title of artwork
Lo que existe antes de existir
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+
