Abstract nominee

Manrique has been a vital figure in Lanzarote’s development over the past half century, making the island an example of sustainable care for natural resources, architecture and urbanism – regulation of high-rise buildings, restrictions on billboards, regulation of recreational capacities, etc. respect for the island’s natural materials and thus its view on what is essential and secondary to human life. My pictures remind his way of depicting Earth roots or even before Earth birth.

“I like stories, I am fascinated by the talents and skills of writers but also of music composers, painters, and architects. I am fascinated by the ability of actors and musicians to interpret given works. But do not look for snapshots or documentaries of a scene in my pictures, rather for an echo of stories embedded in interwoven layers that are both real and abstract in the manner of a writer embedding individual scenes in the pages of their book.”

Since 2017 Vladimir Kysela is a member of the Czech Association of Professional Photographers, APF, since 2019 he is QEP – certified European photographer as well. His projects based on literary and painting stimuli (Karel Hynek Macha, Hans Christian Andersen and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, César Manrique, William Turner) were awarded at major international competitions. He regularly exhibits his works in galleries in the Czech Republic and abroad.