Lišky | Foxes (statement, OGV Jihlava)

Lišky | Foxes (statement, OGV Jihlava)Václav Stratil        3.5.2004
Lišky | Foxes (statement, OGV Jihlava)
Since my childhood the fox has been my favourite topic, and I have never got tired of it. It is a template from fairy tales, onto which I feed various flavours and various characters. And it is my sign, my tag. In the years 1954-63 I drew or painted 700 foxes, all running from left to right, and as a child I wanted to be a gamekeeper. Today my foxes stand, think and are a repeated tag. Basically they are always the same. I enjoy this catatonic repetition. The fox is a fairy tale, a fable, a comix, they are sexually charged and are above all attractive. Children like them, but the idea arose among the curators that I should now paint only foxes. My fox is called Milosh. He was the last inhabitant of the house in Brno-Obřany where I live. — Václav Stratil (in: Karaoke je slovní fotbal na všechny slabiky, OGV Jihlava, 2004)