Death in the Mirror
Technique
Oil painting on canvas
Dimensions
75×55 cm
Year
2019
Cost
CZK 20000 (cca $930)
You’re Going to Die
Wait, this is not a threat.
This artwork has been displayed at M.A.D.S. Milano in the event of “Dream Room 2020” – International Contemporary Art Exhibition.
This is an analysis and written critical review by Art Curator Silvia Grassi:
"A glass mirror is used to look at the face and works of art are used to look at one's soul"
(cit.George Bernard Shaw)
Looking in the mirror is a way of admiring one's external figure, but it is also the only way to look
straight into our own eyes and, being the eyes the mirror of the soul, therefore to look inside, to reflect
on our internal aspects, not visible on the outside. The mirror places us before ourselves, showing us
the outer and inner part of our being, our body and our soul. The same happens when we observe the
works of an artist: the work is a mirror on his soul, a gateway for his deeper self.
The young Czech artist Misha Fryč, with his work entitled "Death in the mirror", shows us what he
sees reflected in the mirror: the abstract and the undefined contours image of death, which also
symbolizes a distant future. But he is not afraid, on the contrary, he touches it with his hand. In fact,
the work takes us inside his reflection and his very intimate and personal thought: the awareness that
we do not live forever and therefore, without fear of the future, we must succeed in making the best of
every single moment that is granted to us. As we see in the work presented here, the communicative
strength and effectiveness of Misha's works is the ability to blend abstraction with realism, so as to
unite dream and reality, fantasy and concrete events, inner thoughts and lived life in one whole.
