Eva Výborná / Shapes of Silence II

Eva Výborná / Shapes of Silence II
28.07.2022

Burgrave’s house at Klenová castle
21.8. - 30.10. 2022

Eva Výborná is a member of that generation of artists who emerged onto the Czech scene in the first half of the 1990s. The main media at the center of her interest are photography and painting. In her art, she works with the interplay of geometric forms, light, and color. When working with photography, she creates models (primarily from paper and plastic) that she subsequently photographs while using various forms of lighting and color filters. Originally, the objects in all her images were deliberately out of focus, but in her more recent works the emphasis has been on detail or she combines both approaches. The exhibition at the Burgrave’s House in Klenová presents a selection of photographs from several cycles (Shapes of Silence, The Cosmos, Floating).

Výborná’s works are created in several layers. She first stages her photographed objects using a sometimes almost performative approach that creates a temporary installation. She then illuminates this scene in a number of different ways, and only later does she create a photographic image possessing numerous semantic layers. Light and color determine the mood and atmosphere of the final image. Some of her works represent complex systems of structures and labyrinths that accentuate the depth of space and evoke an otherwise vague space. Many of her objects or compositions are capable of magnetically attracting our attention by their richness of shapes, their reflective nature, or the action of various reflections. In other images, we can identify minimalist lines resembling lines from drawing.

Eva Výborná’s works are inspired by the landscape, architecture, and the space around her, but sometimes by nothing more than the light touches of everyday stories. They contain a sense of playfulness, order, and concentration, but also a certain level of vulnerability.

Jolana Havelková

 

Eva Výborná (1965) is a graduate of the Faculty of Education in České Budějovice (1984–1989) and of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1989–1996). She studied drawing under professor Jitka Svobodová, painting under professor Bedřich Dlouhý (1991–1992), and graphics under professor Vladimír Kokolia (1993–1996). During her studies she did a study Exchange in Hannover (1995) and a fellowship on Nicaragua’s Corn Islands (2000). She has headed the Department of Applied Painting at the St. Agnes Secondary School of Applied Art in Český Krumlov since 1996. She lives and works in Dobrá Voda near České Budějovice.

Eva Výborná shows her works at both solo (Photographs, České Budějovice House of Art, 2006; Pictures, Gallery Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice, 2014; Shapes of Silence, South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice, 2017) and group exhibitions (Dolní Kounice Biennial, Zpřítomnění IV, 2006; Labyrinths, Funke’s Kolín, 2009). She has participated in a number of artistic symposia.

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