ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter Vladimir Petrik does not like to repeat. When he decides to paint Vivaldi's Four Seasons as a theme he won't make four paintings, but five. He says that four would not be enough, because it does not reflect the cycles of nature and the spirit of the new era. Similarly, when he paints Atlantis, he removes the debris of the ancient myth about the mythical continent and dives into the magical labyrinth of colors. Immersed into the magical abyss, he drifts in feelings like the French director Luc Besson. Petrik's pictorial story does not have a literary basis. It is a distant sound of natural voices that whisper their tempting words.
His every picture is the current state of mind. "That is why I consider my paintings almost always completed, although it would still be possible to get back to them," says Petrik. "The record of the current state of the soul would, however, be lost."
Ľudo Petránsky jr. (art critic)