YARA-SAN
is a controversial artist, humanist and naturalistic photographer, environmental portraitist and digital painter.
He was born in 1971 in the pilgrimage city of Příbram, in the former Czechoslovakia.
In summer 1989 he defected to Italy, traversing on foot the mountains of former Yugoslavia.
In Italy he got involved with the art of classical antiquity and renaissance while, at the same time he was practicing climbing both for pleasure and as the job.
In 1995, astrology, which use to be his hobby for many years, became his profession too.
In 1996 his assiduous and adventurous nature guides him to a trip to India, Nepal, Egypt and consequently to many other countries.
A trip became a continuous journey all over the world, and Yara-san has been capturing with his camera moments from ordinary life to make them immortal. His work always have deep spiritual significance, as you can imagine with the pictures as independent Tibetan Lamas in Nepal, monks up in Meteora and pilgrims to the spring of Our Lady of Lourdes in France…
Every single journey represents a new challenge for Yara-san. The deep experience he again and again goes through at the most interesting and mysterious places of the planet are the immense source of his artistic inspiration visible whitin his artworks.
EXHIBITIONS
His first exhibition was named THE DREAM IS THAT WORLD. It was presented special collection of environmental portraits of the people from all over the world. For great interest the exhibition was repeated many times in different cities of Czech Republic.
In 1997 he developed the Astrofocus® technique, which could be called the portrait of the soul. It´s based on the personal horoscope chart expressed by photo - collage with deep symbolism. Each collage is a testimony of every person´s individual destiny, uniqueness, beauty and deepness.
Thousands of meetings with people from different cultures lead him closer and deeper into the essence of human soul and its desires and give him the capability to create, with full respect, the Astrofocus® for all kinds of personalities, such as 15 years old Japanese girl (DJ Moon collage), a famous artist (Focus to your heart), an ordinary young man, or a mother of three children...
People receiving their personal collage are always very touched by seeing their "portrait of the soul". And their partners and friends are very often surprised by the unknown aspects of the personality revealed by Astrofocus®.
In the last years his exhibitions took place for example in Prague, Letovice castle, New York, Athens, Moscow, Zurich, Stockholm and Tokyo.