Meditation is Jaroslav Čevora's first exhibition, despite the fact that this artist has been creating for more than a quarter of a century. Although he has established himself as a ubiquitous actor of the Zlín art scene, he has so far moved on its periphery. Now he is symbolically becoming its insider. We must hope, therefore, that his unique work will not merge with the mainstream or with the minor currents - because its uniqueness and authenticity, the fact that it escapes all currents without the need to go against them, is its great strength.

Unencumbered by the layers of prejudice that artistic education brings with it, Čevora creates with complete freedom. He has no need to react to the present or the past, he draws exclusively from the reservoir of his own imagination, and this entitles us to classify him as art brut - art in its raw state, which can be characterized as an autonomous creation of a magical character that springs exclusively from within the author, where it arises spontaneously without rational self-censorship. The creators of art brut do not look for inspiration in the external world, although they reflect and transform it in a distinctive way. All this applies to Jaroslav Čevora to the full extent.

However, let us not cling to categories that are only meant to help us orient ourselves in the work that defies all stereotypes, but do not say much about its qualities and its value, about the message it conveys.

Chevor's work has none of the raw aesthetics, impulsive gestures and technical looseness that we are often used to in art brut. He sees his works as a kind of sacrament and his work as a mission. It is similar to a scientific project. He approaches it with the responsibility and anxiety of a neurosurgeon.

His seemingly generous squeegee-modelled pigment paintings are executed with immense care, which seems to be driven by a higher purpose to depict the perfection of the natural order. What is significant for Chevor's paintings is the plasticity and translucence where the mass of coloured pigment seems to give way to the power of the light that wants to shine through it. It acts like a gothic vault, like the vascular structure of stained glass. They have a sacred dimension, even in the moment where they resemble more than the grandeur of a temple the subtle skeleton of a dry leaf from which the tissue has already been rolled out, or the lush algae from the bottom of the sea where the sun's rays penetrate only by touch. It is precisely through the intensity of light that Chevora models the illusion of space that is remarkable in his work.

Compared to abstract paintings, Chevor's drawings have a concrete character. They are like perfect illustrations from an atlas of amphibious monsters inhabiting unknown worlds. In this respect, they may resemble the mediumistic drawings of the Podkrkonoše and Silesian spiritists, which are a delirious herbarium depicting fauna and flora from distant planets. In fact, there are several aspects that connect it with the mediumistic drawers - besides the organic morphology, cosmic symbolism and precision of execution, there is also a kind of poisonous eroticism: the tissue cuts and organs sculpted with frightening consistency have something almost repulsively animalistic, and at the same time distancingly perfectly technical. They record the mating of space robots, which may as well be a harbinger of the apocalypse as of a new cosmogony - a cascade of cosmic orgasms - of future Big Bangs. Chevor's drawings depict a dynamic process that draws us with dizzying force into a space whose perspective hurtles headlong into infinity.

Although Chevora has never been inclined to spiritualism, he is also a kind of medium - in other words, a mediator. He goes beyond the limits of sensory reality and bears witness to unsuspected existences. Or is he perhaps the revealer of a profound truth about our world, about the unity of the macro and microcosm, which science in its specialisation cannot grasp? Perhaps that is why the chosen individuals - and Jaroslav Čevora is undoubtedly one of them - are gifted with the ability to see, which they transform into their works of art that allow us to reveal aspects that we, beings with the blinders of reason, cannot or do not want to see.