Domiciled in Zurich, the Czech multi-media artist Jan Jedlicka (born Prague, 1944) has spent over 20 years working in the coastal Maremma region of southern Tuscany, investigating the many facets of this extraordinary, part natural, part man-made environment. He works in a variety of media: painting and printmaking, watercolour, pure line drawing, photography and film. The show documents both the essentially lyrical quality of his work in all these media and the various levels of interaction between them. Jedlicka has exhibited widely in Europe and this is his first one-person exhibition in Britain. His work was featured in the University of Brighton Gallery 1999 Selected Signs exhibition of work associated with the record label ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music).
Jan Jedlicka: Maremma 1980 – 2001 is a University of Brighton touring exhibition and is touring on to Museo d’Arte, Cantonale, Lugano. A fully illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition with essays by Dieter Schwarz, Gerhard Mack, Alan Sillitoe and Michael Tucker.
