Art exhibition Not of the mind | Prague | until September 30

August 23, 2020

I am pleased to invite you to exhibition Not of the mind that is taking place at industrial gallery space Stara cistirna odpadnich vod, Bubenec in Prague. The exhibition will last until September 30 and it provides the space for my most recent abstract paintings which were created at historically significant Nerudova street in Prague and which concern the act of going beyond.

“The act of going beyond what is usually known and thought either in perceptions or creations can be understood, as Ordo Amoris reflects, as an invitation to a space that the mind would name “the miracles”. Devoid of all that makes us feel comfortable in the familiar, the space of freedom occurs where all that is is in a pure unconditional creation. Either to create it or to perceive it, by ignoring the habitual responses or unconscious thoughts, Ordo Amoris creates the frequency of being where there is the clarity of doing in so-called non-doing, where all that is provides the space into the unknown and to a priori freedom. “I study the space where questions and subsequent conversations arise between the universal energies of something considered, as an intention, the primary source of all the movement in the Universe, and on the other hand the freedom as the energy a priori inherent in all that is.” What is to go on the canvas, she reflects, is not a picture, nor an idea, not the event, but that “what is”. “I do not have tendencies to name my work abstract. The works without conceptions are not my projections, nor expressions, it has nothing to do with myself, nor my feelings. It is not self-projected, the self is not even there. It is something beyond all experiencing as we know it.” The work, with its ethereal organic forms that are not conditioned yet are not automatic arising from subconscious, are rather a fluent transcendence of all that is, even itself. Being metaphysical in scope it can serve as a juxtaposition between that which we are conditioned to know and to think and that which comes from a priori freedom. Is it not, then, the dissolved self in all that is without its hints or tendencies and freely moving in a gap in between thoughts, the truest essence of its own? The question is not here to be answered. Ordo Amoris believes that "in our willingness to step into the unknown, the wisdom of uncertainty, where the freedom from our conditioning lies, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”

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Invitation to opening of art exhibition Not of the mind | August 18 | Prague

August 14, 2020

I am pleased and honoured to invite you all to opening of my exhibition "Not of the mind" that will take place at exquisite industrial gallery space of Stará čistírna odpadních vod Bubeneč

on August 18 from 17:00.

The exhibition will last until September 30 and it will provide the space for my most recent abstract paintings which were created at historically significant Nerudova street in Prague and which concern the act of going beyond.

With the team of gallery space I look forward to seeing you and your friends on Tuesday, August 18, from 17:00, at Papírenská 6, Prague 6 - Bubeneč.

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Exhibition Living the truth | Artisème | Prague

September 20, 2019

I AM SURE we all have sometime or other experienced a great sense of tranquillity and beauty coming to us from the green fields, the setting sun, the still waters, or the snowcapped peaks. But what is beauty? Is it merely the appreciation that we feel, or is beauty a thing apart from perception? If you have good taste in clothes, if you use colours that harmonize, if you have dignified manners, if you speak quietly and hold yourself erect, all that makes for beauty, does it not? But that is merely the outward expression of an inward state, like a poem you write or a picture you paint. You can look at the green field reflected in the river and experience no sense of beauty, just pass it by. If, like the fisherman, you see every day the swallows flying low over the water, it probably means very little to you; but if you are aware of the extraordinary beauty of something like that, what is it that happens within you and makes you say, "How very beautiful"? What goes to make up this inward sense of beauty? There is the beauty of outward form: tasteful clothes, nice pictures, attractive furniture, or no furniture at all with bare, well-proportioned walls, windows that are perfect in shape, and so on. I am not talking merely of that, but of what goes to make up this inward beauty.

Surely, to have this inward beauty, there must be complete abandonment; the sense of not being held, of no restraint, no defence, no resistance; but abandonment becomes chaotic if there is no austerity with it. And do we know what it means to be austere, to be satisfied with little and not to think in terms of 'the more'? There must be this abandonment with deep inward austerity - the austerity that is extraordinarily simple because the mind is not acquiring, gaining, not thinking in terms of `the more'. It is the simplicity born of abandonment with austerity that brings about the state of creative beauty. But if there is no love you cannot be simple, you cannot be austere. You may talk about simplicity and austerity, but without love they are merely a form of compulsion, and therefore there is no abandonment. Only he has love who abandons himself, forgets himself completely, and thereby brings about the state of creative beauty.

Beauty obviously includes beauty of form; but without inward beauty, the mere sensual appreciation of beauty of form leads to degradation, disintegration. There is inward beauty only when you feel real love for people and for all the things of the earth; and with that love there comes a tremendous sense of consideration, watchfulness, patience. You may have prefect technique, as a singer or a poet, you may know how to paint or put words together, but without this creative beauty inside, your talent will have very little significance.

Unfortunately, most of us are becoming mere technicians. We pass examinations, acquire this or that technique in order to earn a livelihood; but to acquire technique or develop capacity without paying attention to the inner state, brings about ugliness and chaos in the world. If we awaken creative beauty inwardly, it expresses itself outwardly, and then there is order. But that is much more difficult than acquiring a technique, because it means abandoning ourselves completely, being without fear, without restraint, without resistance, without defence; and we can thus abandon ourselves only when there is austerity, a sense of great inward simplicity. Outwardly we may be simple, we may have but few clothes and be satisfied with one meal a day; but that is not austerity. There is austerity when the mind is capable of infinite experience - when it has experience, and yet remains very simple. But that state can come into being only when the mind is no longer thinking in terms of `the more', in terms of having or becoming something through time.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The exhibition was possible to see in Artisème, Prague, until October 31, 2019

Eternal movement

May 31, 2019

Meditation is not a search, it's not a seeking, a probing, an exploration. It is an explosion and discovery. It's not the taming of the brain to conform nor is it a self-introspective analysis, it is certainly not the training in concentration which includes, chooses and denies. It's something that comes naturally, when all positive and negative assertions and accomplishments have been understood and drop away easily. It is the total emptiness of the brain. It's the emptiness that is essential, not what's in the emptiness, there is seeing only from emptiness, all virtue, not social morality and respectability, springs from it. It's out of this emptiness love comes, otherwise it's not love. Foundation of righteousness is in this emptiness. It's the end and beginning of all things.

These magical works on photography are created with Flexaret camera on Kodak film, Portra 160, 120mm.

abstract artwork by abstract expressionist artist and philosopher Ordo Amoris based in Prague, Europe

Exhibition wu-wei | Bali

March 15, 2019

...at the still point of the turning world, there the dance is, but neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. Eliot

When wu-wei is done, nothing is left undone..

The works I created for this exhibition represent nothing and yet they represent the most essential truth. The truth which is not possible to know, nor to describe, neither to think about it.

The exhibition with my new artworks along with meditative works of Stepan Vrzala was possible to see in unique gallery space Workshopbali in Ubud, Bali until April 5th 2019.