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Pavel Surma was born on 1st March, 1964, in Sternberk, Czech Republic. He is a self-taught artist who, since he was 17 years old, has been intensively creating art which includes painting, stone sculptures, graphics, photography as well as collages. In the first half of the 80s he and Leonidas Kryvosej established a Surrealist Group in Sternberk within which they organized and executed several exhibitions. In the second half of the 80s he emigrated to Germany where he lived and continued creating art for almost 15 years. During those years, already being a member of the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists, he took part in collective activities and exhibited his art altogether with artists such as Jan Svankmajer, Martin Stejskal, Frantisek Dryje and others – significant personalities of the current surrealist activity in Czech Lands. It was this time period when Surma intensively developed his relationship with surrealists from Paris, England and others. At a certain point in his life Pavel Surma decided to leave Germany for he felt an urge to step out of the life he was used to and to break the ties that kept him from experiencing his life journey of freedom and creating art which thus emerges. No more could he stand the „functioning in nowadays conventions that doesn’t bear profound values“. First he moved to the mountains of Andalusia for some time, away from frenzy and all ballast, in order to clear his head. Then he started executing his plan of buying and restoring an old farm house in Bohemia or Moravia. Gradually he managed to reconstruct the house so that it became his home which now offers enough space for Surma to create art and fulfil his life philosophy – not a demanding one, simply living modestly and in peace. And what is Surma creating nowadays? If he is not producing wine or cheese for private use he is creating „inner images and scrolls of my soul, and I hope there are some people who can get enriched by them, yet, that is not a must...“
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