The exhibition The Paintings and Sculptures of Jaroslav Róna, organised by the Centro Checo de Madrid and the Centro Sefarad-Israel, can be seen until 23 July at the Centro Sefarad-Israel.
The author of the popular sculpture dedicated to Franz Kafka in Prague’s Dusni Street, Jaroslav Róna brings to Spain for the first time a group of paintings and sculptures that invite us to reflect on the breaking of ideological ties and which represent a highly representative retrospective of his artistic career. With Slovak Jewish roots, Jaroslav Róna (Prague, 1957) was one of the founding members of the prominent Czech art group Tvrdohlaví (The Stubborn), which sought to carry out activities that would free the art scene from communist ideology. Within the group, Róna emerged as an original creator who deviated from the trends of the time. In this exhibition, Jaroslav Róna exhibits a total of ten sculptures and sixteen paintings that cover his career from grotesque, neo-cubist, abstract creations to recent ones closer to magical realism.
