For more than a decade, Houdek has been consistently building his uniquely abstract painting universe, which displays both expressive and geometric features.
His geometric op-art is as sensually stimulating as his wild brushstrokes and surface deconstructions. Moreover, Houdek’s motifs blend elements of both the past and the future, though his focus is often on utopias.
His multi-layered geometric cosmological symbols are inspired by late-Renaissance and Baroque maps, the abstraction of early 20th-century movements, and the brutalist architecture of the Eastern European region.
The common denominator of Houdek’s new paintings exhibited at acb is the color yellow, with its astonishingly subtle tonal variations paying homage to Van Gogh’s sunflower still lifes.