After a year, the Kabinet T. Gallery is again exhibiting another artist of the so-called Zlín circle, Zdeněk Gajdos (1961). Since he meets the authors of the Zlín group "Ohne titel" at exhibitions and symposia, with whom he last exhibited last year in Luhačovice, he is therefore quite well known in the town and region for his art. It all started in Brno, where Zdeněk Gajdoš studied Czech language and art education at the Faculty of Education of the Brno University of Education (now MU) between 1981 and 1987. Here he also met Ivo Sedláček and Luboš Jarcovják (I remind you that Jarcovják was last presented in Zlín in the gallery here).
It was in the early 1990s that Zdeněk Gajdoš chose a specific artistic medium of the time of installations, happenings and performances - paper. "Paper art" in the Moravian (Brno) environment was manifested from the 1980s onwards, especially in the person of J. H. Kocman, and focused mainly on authorial paper or books.  Although Gajdoš was also partly involved in author's paper, the focus of his artistic expression lies in something else, in paper art as a concept of his own world and life.

So what is his world presented in this exhibition? It is - in a sense - an intimate question, yet it is one that needs to be answered in the context of the exhibition. I must write, however, that the selection of works covers the work of the last few years, when Gajdoš constitutes his work from the "conceptual" level (letter envelopes addressed to prominent personalities; Letters to My Love) to the "perceptual" - although the two are intrinsically intertwined.   Including the archetypal White Yellow (1993), the exhibition formally presents the artist's unflagging interest in the "simplest" artistic medium, I mean in terms of the form of the medium - i.e. paper and binder. Although he could also draw in sand or in the Morava River, he consistently insists on his own: "to use things differently, to give them a different meaning, to add the value of personal experience and the creative process". He responds to the subjects around him in a distinctive way, so that his work is particularly important to him, breaking out of a completely ordinary art operation, presenting his work primarily for the gallery viewer. Artistically, he transforms ordinary things into structurally specific paper objects, into subjects that simply catch his eye. Whatever it may be, for example, Trubičky (2008) a derivative of chemical test tubes, Letka (2007) a rhythmization of the surface according to an unguessable rule, or the "rewriting" of short haiku poems into a completely peculiar form (2007). However, the structural division of the area is still typical for Gajdoš, Průhled and Koso (both 2006). The last object, created specifically for this exhibition, is City Book (2011). It is placed in the František Bartos Library for the duration of the exhibition for a logical reason. 
Zdeněk Gajdoš and his paper world is a certain escape from the noise of our existence. Gajdoš is different. He does not need us. He has his own world and his existence is quiet.  
Martin Beníček, curator of the exhibition