Roman Košťál

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Roman Košťál (born 1999 in Ústí nad Labem) is a contemporary painter and one of the most distinctive student talents at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His melancholic charcoal drawings depict colorful figures representing the living and black-and-white ones symbolizing the dead. His work engages with themes of death, spiritualism, satanism, and horror, often portraying people suspended between dream and reality, the world of the living and the realm of the deceased.

He studied applied painting and hot glass processing at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenický Šenov. In 2022, he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he joined the drawing studio of Jiří Petrbok and Martin Gerboc. Since 2023, he has been studying under Alice Nikitinová and Matěj Smetana. He has received the Oskar Ostrava Award for his figurative painting (1st prize in 2019, 3rd prize in 2017).

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