Václav Jirásek : born on 3th November 1965 in Karviná, Czech Republic, was originally trained as a painter. In 1980–1984 he studied at the Secondary School of Applied Art Brno, Specialization Applied Graphics and then he graduated from The School of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 1990. His photography skills are self-taught.
In the years 1989–1994 he was one of the founding members of the artistic group Bratrstvo [Brotherhood] (painting, photography, music), with whom he exhibited his photographic work anonymously. In his later career, he has generally turned away from painting and since 1994, he has focused on photography without a thematic limitation. The common denominator of his work is the interest in mysterium, guise, irony, decadence, and the recycling of art.
Work of Václav Jirásek is represented, e.g. in the collections of the Prague Arts and Crafts Museum, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Ludwig Köln, or Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
