I recently got the honor of writing an exhibition text for @stech_adam upcoming solo exhibition Deviant Dichtonomy which opens this Thu at @ascasogallery in Miami. I’ve been a fan of the Prague-based artist’s work for a while and even had the chance of having his work in one of my projects so seeing this large body of work comprising paintings, sculptures and mosaics, is an absolute treat! Here is a little excerpt from the text: For more than a decade, #AdamŠtech has been on a mission to amplify the canonical art beauty through deconstruction and development of deviant dichotomy. It’s the paintings we see in art history books, in auction headlines, and in major institutional collections, that the Czech painter is looking at with admiration and an urge to tear them apart and rebuild, often by synthesizing Cubism and realism. And such a mix of respect and mockery, of appreciation of the old and thirst for the new, fuels the exhaustive practice comprising drawing, collage, painting, mosaic, and sculpture, techniques that sometimes work together on getting the best out of a convincing motif or a composition. • "I perceive Cubism as a breakthrough in visualizing, almost at the level of discovering linear perspective," the artist mentions when explaining the influence of the iconic avant-garde art movement. And this sincere appreciation seeps into all layers of his creative process, from the overlaying or collaging drawings in the preparatory phase, resorting to Cubism-founded approaches in painting or applying them to realistic sculpture, all the way to employing cube-based mosaic technique or using the cube-defying circles to distort the image.