Pavel Forman

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*1977, CZE
Pavel Forman studied in Olomouc at Palacky University between 1997 and 2001. He attended lectures about new German literature and South Asian culture at Humboldt University since 2002. He graduated at the prestigious Universität der Künste in Berlin in 2006. He finished his PhD studies at the Faculty of Education of Palacky University, Olomouc in 2015. Now he teaches painting at the Faculty of Education of Ostrava University. Forman works and lives in Ostrava. Diversity of shapes and sophisticated colourful aggression is characteristic for Forman’s artwork. The thematic list is extensive; it includes iconic and nameless characters of Czech and European history handled as a large-format visual paraphrase of composition and gestures of multifarious sign systems, inspired by pop art and street art.