"[...] the landscapes are not only pictures of landscape, they are also landscapes of the field of possibilities of the medium of painting. [...] when the black monochrome is placed next to the painted landscape, it becomes a question of perspective, a perceptual perspective. On the one hand you have the illusory, fake depth - the painted landscape - and on the other hand you have the black surface, which doesn't want to fake anything , but appears to recede much more than the former [...]"

Michael Biberstein quoted from On the Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing Of Landscape, interview with Jiri Svestka, Tríptico, cat. Europalia '91 Portugal, Brussels 1991.