ARTIST PROFILE

Pavla Malinová

  • Czech Republic (b. 1985 in Vsetín)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.

  • 2016
  • Mixed Media, Drawings, Oil on canvas, Mural, Relief

  • View to exhibition Hedges, galerie Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice 2016

  • Malinova p 05
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    Hedges 2016 | 2016

Pavla Malinova claims that 'fences are a reflection of reality'. Today, when we, again, start speaking about fences, she is clearly aware of not only the factual existence of their construction, but also the symbolic meanings this rhetoric conveys. Her new drawings and paintings, however, resemble a kind of Easter hallucination. They represent magic reality brighten up by colours, a world woven into crooked ornaments. This is reminiscent of pre-Christian and non-European art, wizards, folklore, Josef Lada and the transavantgarde. But, despite this reminiscence, Malinova remains in the 21st Century, in her life experience, in the contemplative efforts and conflicts with 'all three fences, explosions and myself'. Her second ‘colour circus’ which, as if from itself, rouses a radiant quake, disrupts figures in unnaturally twisted poses. It is not discernible whether they are accompanied by appeasement or pain. Discharge from their mouths resembles vomit. The motif of barbed wire is also present. Fingers in a symbolic gesture of open scissors (such as with ‘scissors – paper – stone’ game), or shears, seem ready to 'trim the hedges' made of human figures. Remaining in such ambivalence, which is characteristic of Malinova's work, is also embodied in her drawing of a group of figures with black faces standing on a rectangular platform enclosed by barb wire. Behind them, on the left, we can see a sculpture of a black hand, embracing a globe with its fingers. What are you thinking of right now? Jiří Ptáček