The conceptual draftsman and sculptor František Lesák’s work is dedicated to describing and understanding the world of objects and associated questions of perception. Creating systems of spatial reference, exploring alternating perspectives, surveying and mapping selected sceneries, and toying with shifts of scale are key elements of his creative toolset. Undertaking a kind of basic research, systematically planned cycles of works examine things and their relation to the real space around them as well as the space of media.

At the Secession, Lesák shows several bodies of work, mostly dating from the past few years, that have not or only rarely been on public display. The presentation sheds light on the contemporaneity of his art and continuities in his oeuvre.

In his new cycle Supposition and Reality (2020), from which the exhibition takes its title, Lesák probes the complex interplay between tactile and visual perception, but also scrutinizes drawing itself as a physical and mental practice that yields notations of reality.