Perspectives

4. 8. - 3. 9. 2023

Gallery in the tower

Gallery in the Tower, New Town Hall

Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm (lunch break from 12 to 1 pm)

Admission: Full CZK 60, concession and groups CZK 40, families CZK 130

Perspective: A point of view. Opinion. Looking into the distance. Prospects for the future. It can be all that and much more! And it is also the name of the exhibition of five young artists whose paths crossed inside the painting studio of the Art & Design Institute, under the guidance of doc. ak. mal. Roman Franta. Artists would like to offer their own visual perception to anyone who cares to see it. Each of them speaks to the spectator in their own artistic language, and whether they present a view of the human body, a milk jug, or the surface of the water, or they looking into the sun or landscape - playful colors and the search for new perspectives on the world around them is what unites them. 

Lenka Krkavcová

Lenka Lormanová

Eliška Astlová

Pavla Šebková

Hana Šmidrkalová

Web: http://www.adi.cz/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artdesigninstitut 

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LENKA KRKAVCOVÁ (*1984)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krkavcovalenka/ 

Still life. A set of inanimate objects, a classic subject of fine art. For Lenka, however, it is not a final destination, but a starting point. She is not interested in the objects themselves and their veristic processing but in the aesthetics of their deformed reflections, which the objects create on a curved reflective surface. She does not perceive them as mere reflections of reality but as a surreal world full of shapes, colored surfaces, and lines, which can only be entered by looking at them. It is a world that seemed to exist and did not exist at the same time. We can see it, but we cannot enter it. All you have to do is move your head and the layout of the painting will change completely. That's why her canvases are full of colors, shapes, and rhythms, which offer us a space in which the eyes and mind can wander freely, search, or simply look. Thus, they not only give us space to relax our minds but also offer a topic for thinking beyond the boundaries of reality, what can be considered real, and whether everything must have a physical form to exist.

LENKA LORMANOVÁ (*2001)

Web: https://lenkalormanova.myportfolio.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llor10/ 

Lenka’s work opens a dialogue between the medium of photography and painting. The result of these two mediums combined is a set of 9 photographs of the author's paintings, for which she used human bodies as a canvas. Each photograph represents a different color of the color circle, and each color represents the monochromatic artworks of modern painters. The paintings are created on fragments of the bodies of nine different women. With her brush, Lenka touches on the topic of the uniqueness of each person, even though human bodies are primarily identical, they fulfill the same function of a physical container and are created in the same way -  equally vulnerable. The bodies were exposed to the author's touches and gaze while working on them and now, they are equally exposed to the spectators. Photographs show us fragile intimacy and vulnerability. 

Lenka is playing with our visual perception, where at the first moment we perceive the color of the photograph, then we recognize the individual paintings and at the end, we realize they were created on the human body. The paintings here work in mutual synergy with the bodies – they veil their nudity, cover them and protect them from our sight – but at the same time they are influenced by them themselves – they are deformed by the structure of the skin and individual body curves. The photo installation itself tries to transform the colored circle into a real space that the viewer can physically enter. The "walls" keeps out all the visual noises from the background and leave the spectator fully concentrate on the artwork.

PAVLA ŠEBKOVÁ (*1989)

Web: https://www.letkn0w.me 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sshy.artist/ 

Landscape, silence, soul. Soul, silence, landscape. In Pavla's paintings, the landscape is only seemingly the main motif. Her goal is not to capture the outside world with a descriptive painting, but on the contrary – the author turns her gaze inward to her own self, where she searches to the furthest corners. Her landscapes are not just a capture of reality, but it is a meaning of expression through which the painter tries to tell us about the human soul, in which we can find many places full of lonely sadness, ignorance of what awaits us, the inability to see beyond the fog that blurs the contours, turns familiar shapes into flickering tremors and thus deprives us of the ability to recognize. Pavla uses muted colors, which evoke a feeling of melancholy and sadness. At first glance, peaceful, deserted landscapes resonate with quiet tension and prompt one to stop, contemplate and perhaps reflect on the landscape of one's own soul and its hidden corners.

HANA ŠMIDRKALOVÁ (*1980)

Web: https://www.hanasmidrkalova.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanasmidrkalova/ 

 Hana is the author of many positions. She rejects boxes and pretense. She believes in the multi-layeredness of the human being, in which we each have many positions and faces, and there are many paths ahead of us that we can take. This is her philosophy and it also becomes the program of her painting. She does not want to focus only on one part of life - seeing the world, and neglect the others. In her paintings, Hana wants to include all the aspects as much as possible, to get to know them from all angles and sides, thereby pointing out that there is no need to hide, to pretend to be different from what we are. Her paintings vary from gentle motifs and soft tones, through almost monochromatic brooding, to wild colors and expressive painting overflowing with explosive feminine energy.

ELIŠKA ASTLOVÁ (*2000)

Web: https://astlart.cz/?p=25 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astlart/ 

 The theme of Eliška's series of acrylic paintings is the lack of transparency in today's world, a world that is overflowed with information that is coming at individuals from all directions. Man is overwhelmed and groping. He's getting lost. He's heating. Water, a symbol of purification, a condition of life, but also an element that can take lives, is understood here as a paradoxical parallel to the unceasing stream of information with which a person is constantly overwhelmed in today's world, but without which it would be difficult to survive in it. He is suffocated by the loss of orientation and gripped by the resulting anxiety. The painter's expressive paintings thus scream at us with the mute impotence of the gesture of a person drowning in a sea of lies, truths, and half-truths and his hopeless effort to distinguish one from the other. The language that Eliška uses to describe the world, is intense complementary colors and they encourage us to think about whether reality is really as it appears to be.