Muž, který sází borovici blatku - Příběhy dobře utajených malířů – Palán Aleš (2023)

A ticket to the world of art in unexpected places ***** František has painted his entire house, including the gate and fence. Vlasta lives in an old house and draws the phases of the moon from its windows; she paints symbols of cities on pressed leaves and burns the papers where she recorded stories of an imagined family half a century ago in her stove. Pavel has invented an entire system of countries, drawing buildings and landscapes for them; for decades he has recorded the weather and plants pines in the open countryside. Lorenzo exclusively paints trains, trolleybuses, and trams; he has them on his sneakers and supposedly even on his shorts... They paint because they must. They create art brut or conceptual projects, even though many are unaware that such things even exist. They are alone in this, which makes their work unique and unmistakable. And their stories? Those are even stronger. ***** Writer and journalist Aleš Palán continues his successful books about loners and urban robinsons. This time he ventured into studios, workshops, and nooks and interviewed seven people for whom there is not much difference between life and creation.