After his parents left the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Lokai grew up in Düren, Germany. After leaving high school he began studying art at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1982. In 1987 he left as Meisterschüler of Gerhard Richter. There he met colorfield landscape painter Hans-Jörg Holubitschka, with whom he has participated in several exhibitions as part of the Young Figuratives movement.
Work
Lokai's work incorporates the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionism and the spray paint of graffiti. His "Landscape Block" works consist of multi-panelled grids composed of eighteen 12 by 16 inch panels, each painted in the studio, then combined into a grid at random.
Art critic Mara Hoberman wrote that Lokai's Landscape Blocks depict "eighteen land-, sea-, and sky-scapes in disparate styles quoting, in turn, the brushstrokes of Monet, Turner, and Richter (his teacher), among others."
