Color linocut 17x8 cm printing area, 21x29.6 cm graphic sheet numbered 26/70, signed M. Manojlín 2024
About the author:
Martin Manojlín (1972) graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Education at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, where he studied Czech language - art education. It was there that he began to discover his interest in printmaking, especially relief printing techniques.
He refined his artistic talent under the guidance of excellent printmakers such as Prof. Miloš Michálek and Alois Kračmar. Since 2015, he has been a member of SČUG Hollar.
In his graphic work, Martin Manojlín focuses on relief printing techniques – predominantly linocut in combination with woodcut and printing from various structural materials. These are mostly multi-color overprints from several matrices, and the printing is quite complicated, so the author prints all the sheets exclusively himself. Often, before printing another color, he uncovers the matrices, and in printing, he also uses the structures of various materials, or for the effect of the work, he prints on colored papers.
Martin Manojlín creates both loose graphic sheets and ex-libris. Since 2011, he has printed ex-libris almost exclusively on A4 paper. Natural motifs dominate his art, which he translates into both concrete representations and abstract forms. His work has been repeatedly awarded in various competitions, triennials, and biennials in the Czech Republic and abroad.
