Kateřina Štenclová / Retro

For nearly her entire artistic career, Kateřina Štenclová has systematically and almost exclusively focused on abstract painting. Her main means of expression are color, the relationship between geometric and organic fields, brushstroke, the shape of the painting's base, and various ways of installing her works. Her exhibition at the White Unicorn Gallery in Klatovy is not a typical chronological retrospective, but instead offers an illustrative overview of the subjects, principles, and approaches that have appeared in her work since the late 1980s. These include an exploration of colors, monochrome painting, the layering of motifs and of the paintings themselves, and the juxtaposition between random structures and sophisticated constructions. Štenclová's work is characterized by a remarkable continuity and periodic returns to certain formal approaches. Although the exhibition's various thematic sections may bring together works created several decades apart, they nevertheless immediately engage in dialogue with one another.