Monika Immrová / Sculptures and work on paper

CHURCH OF ST. LAWRENCE IN KLATOVY
4 Aug. – 31 Oct. 2013

Monika Immrová (born 1970) studied sculpture under professor Jindřich Zeithamml at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1995-2001), and today works as a sculptor and graphic artist. Through the uses of simple forms and a reduced morphology, she strives towards the basic principles of sculpture and drawing. In her work she pursues the inherent laws of the objective states – i.e., the process of objectification. Because this essence is revealed within the dynamic, procedural foundation of every objective state, none of her objects is similar in shape to the basic forms of static Euclidean geometry (purely geometric shapes), but always reach beyond them in some polemic manner. Objects are a complicated state of matter. In nature, we can speak of a frozen stage in the formation of natural matter. In Immrová's work, it is a sculptural reconstruction of these stages. A central theme in her sculptures is the creation of parallel axes around which the object grows. Growth is associated with expressions of life. Matter, too, is in a constant process of transformation. It is living matter that is merely anchored differently in time. Mistakes, inaccuracies and interventions into the object's axial symmetry, however minor, bring it to life, bring it closer to our own experience, to our experience of time. And so we can see this layer of time in the sculpture as well. The object's core and its shell undergo a twofold growth – from the inside out and up/to the sides. Irregularities and deviations from this basic division of space represent a great challenge for Immrová and offer a way of entering into and communicating with the mysteries of space. In her graphic works, these same relationships are transposed onto paper. They represent the reduction of three-dimensional relations into a geometric shorthand of the object and its motion. In this exhibition at the Church of St. Lawrence in Klatovy, Immrová presents a selection of recent sculptures and works on paper.
Exhibition curator: Petr Vaňous./p>

Video Václav Vojta

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