Richard Nestler

Richard Nestler (*1981) creates visual worlds in his paintings that move on the border between reality and fiction, between the natural and the artificial, between the concrete and the indefinite. His large-format charcoal drawings on paper capture imaginary objects and bodies that cannot be easily classified into a specific time. They can be perceived as fragments of the distant past or as visions of the distant future.
Richard works with perspective and depth of space, blurring the border between near and far, between the macroworld and the microworld. In one object, one can see structures at hand and at the same time a view into a seemingly infinite distance. This paradox of scale, where the small contains the large and the large the small, reflects his fascination with the structure of the world.
Recently, in addition to drawing, he has also been painting with oil on canvas, and his work is shifting towards figuration. In a new cycle of paintings, the human figure enters into a dialogue with imaginary objects, creating new narratives.
He studied from 2006 to 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague in the studio of Prof. Milan Knížák.