Jan Šerých (1972) entered the contemporary Czech art scene in the second half of the 1990s as a member of the group Headless Horseman (together with Josef Bolf, Ján Mančuška and Tomáš Vaňek). One of the most distinctive generational groups of the last quarter of a century, it is characteristic that the will to work and, above all, to exhibit in a collective was not determined by the proximity of individual formal approaches, but rather by identical attitudes towards art and life in general. Jan Šerých began to assert himself independently at the beginning of the last decade and today he is one of the most prominent representatives of the tendency sometimes referred to as "romantic conceptualism" on the Czech scene.
Jan Šerých bases his work on a significant reduction of artistic form, one of the leitmotifs of his work is text (or non-textual sign systems). He also likes to use the language of artistic minimalism. What makes his conceptualism "romantic" (and often distinctly ironic) is the fact that behind the minimal or textual form there is often emotionally charged content. These can be linked to references towards pop culture (to the pop group ABBA or Kubrick's film Shining), but also to a more intimate, personal experience. The above also applies to the exhibition project Anything, which Šerých prepared for the Zlín gallery Kabinet T.

The works Šerých will present here (from moving image - animation, through painting to installation) are united by the motif of the difficult or haphazard assignment of meaning, which is also reflected in the title of the exhibition, whether due to the message being deliberately encrypted, the level of 'information noise' that accompanies it being too high, or simply because the speaker has a positive attitude towards the openness and ambiguity of the meaning of his message. The effort to understand, to see (or hear) something "behind" the image can bring the attentive viewer to a fine line beyond which the racio fades and opens up space for imagination and sometimes delirium.