What is a sketch? How do you create something that didn’t exist a moment ago? How is a work born, under what circumstances, and how does an idea take shape? What precedes the sketch and what does the situation itself look like?

In his new book, David Böhm tries to answer these questions through original drawing experiments, theoretical reflections and interviews with contemporary artists (Jiří Kovanda, Vladimír Skrepl, Kateřina Šedá, Viktor Pivovarov, Alena Kotzmannová, Pavla Sceranková, and Vladimír Kokolia). Published by Labyrint Publishing House in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. 176 pages, format 165×190 mm,

David Böhm (1982) is a visual artist, book author and teacher. He has won numerous awards for his work at home and abroad. He made his debut in Labyrint publishing house with the unique comic strip Ticho hrocha (2009) and is co-author of the book Hlava v hlavě (2013), which won awards in all domestic competitions. He and Jiří Franta constitute a respected artistic duo and create performances, installations, and large-scale drawings. They have collaborated on the illustrations and visuals for the publications Průvodce neklidným územím I (2016), Jak se dělá galerie (2016) and Město pro každého (2020). Böhm’s original encyclopedia A is for Antarctica (2019) won the Magnesia Literatura and the prestigious German Prize for Young People’s Literature. In 2023, he published a book about the time TEĎ / Než dočteš tuto větu, narodí se na Zemi 21 dětí. Since 2022, he has been the head of the Graphics 1 studio at the Academy of Fine Arts.

The book is available only in Czech.

395 CZK

Skica jako prvotní vizualizace myšlenky (Sketch as the initial visualization of an idea)