Hudeček is a painter based in Ostrava. After graduating from the secondary art school in his home town of Uherské Hradiště, he began studying under Daniel Balabán at the painting studio of the University of Ostrava’s Faculty of Education. The leitmotif of Hudeček’s painting is the figure. The thematic basis of his works draws on found photographs, often of unknown origin. Hudeček explores everyday situations, in which young women generally play the central role. He removes these figures from their original context and re-situates them into dream-like surroundings in the form of an indeterminate and blurred background that borders on the surreal. This enables him not only to focus our attention on activity itself, but also to remove these narratives from time; in their new timelessness, they function as generalized, archetypical signs that can be subjected to deeper analysis. Common situations can thus take on existential and psychological contours. Hudeček uses a highly varied (and at times almost psychedelic) colour palette. His paintings lie precisely on the boundary between reality and unreality. The composition of his painted paraphrases of photographs, combined with his artistic imagination and the decontextualization of content, lends his works a mysterious, ambiguous quality. Hudeček ranks among the most prominent figures on Ostrava’s art scene. For many years he has taught at the city’s secondary art school as well as being a curator for the Jáma gallery.