ARTIST STATEMENT
1. My
long-term topics mostly are: use of the visual language and its
best properties for communication, another topic is some
contemplation over human relationship with landscape in which we live
(and its opposition with breeding fauna and flora in our flats –
homes), topic
of
nostalgia and its connection with childhood and its purity. I often
try to create a suggestive situations which transmits immediacy and
childhood humility towards nature, because
I think that the adult world is much more lethargic. And I like to
work with some naivety.
2. Most
of my projects are close to the motto of Francis Alys: Sometimes
doing something poetic
can become political and sometimes doing something political can
become poetic.
3. My
practice started in studio of classical painting.
I started to work with reduction of redundant
visuality into minimal basis. My abstracted expression soon began to
oscillate on the
edge of naivety. So I have started to consciously play with
childishness which I nowadays
use not only directly in motives but also in the gestures - in the
way in which I conceptualize
my projects. It somehow rooted in my style an work.
In
my intermedial projects I still
preserve the theme of visuality but I try to work more intensively
with current political and environmental issues. Beside the
childishness - or maybe thanks to it - I am also interested in
possibilities of non-verbal
communication and its suggestivity. Most of my projects are actually
based on invention and usage of some kind of specific visual
language. I often use nostalgia, which is gateway to the viewer who
through his memories comes close to
childhood which I put it in the
contrast with the adult and cold logic of
capitalism and neoliberal politics.
4. I
chose my topic naturally according to my interests and
my character. My motives are influenced by the way I live, what I am,
how I look and
by current events in the world around us.
(I
am a
small woman and I
enjoy working with it.)
Besides
intermedial projectcs I
keep coming back to the medium of painting (and
drawing).
I
focus
on theme based on examination of main advantages of this medium, that
lend my to the work with feelings - with sensual ability that this
medium undoubtedly has.
5. My
biggest
future plan is to create mocumentary film following the project
Nature by Man with vision of a destroyed antropocentric world without
animals. The world in which we must replace our desire for endangered
exotic fauna by ourselves. Also
I would like to continue with drawing in its extended field. I
plan to create my own anecdotas or illustrations and
make
illustrated songbook of activist and environmental songs. With
songs I have more plans for example I would
like to write and
rewrite,
sing
(and illustrate) songs about our changing countryside and nature.
I
especially plan to write folk songs or poems which sound similiar to actual songs what we
known since childhood. I mean nursery rhymes about our typical fauna
and flora (that mostly announce changing season). The most typical
are songs about coming of spring what indicate flowers like primrose,
snowdrop and coltsfoot. So inspired by the function of these old
songs, I would like to write about new phenomenons in (central
european) landscape that definitely goes through transformation these
days. I mean, for example, arrival of the new species of living
organisms in our landscape. Someone's
of them are only new weird inhabitants, for example like jackal, who
expanded into our nature and for now
it does not seem like big threat. On the other hand, here comes
really expansive species like knotweed as well
known to us or nutria or spanish slug, which really have the power to
change the form and image of the biosphere and even worse
lower the diversity of our countryside. They also evict and
oppress the indigenous species of fauna and flora,
which is the main character in folk songs mentioned above. So I would
like to try to describe truthfully and in unbiased
way this new upcoming face of our nature.
BIOGRAPHY
Curriculum
vitae
Klára
Lázničková (1995), living in Ostrava and Brno
Education
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2019-now:
Master’s study at Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT, Studio Environment,
Barbora Klimova
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2018-now:
Master’s study at Faculty of Fine Arts, OSU, Studio of Painting 1,
Daniel Balaban
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2015-2018:
Bachelor’s study at Faculty of Fine Arts, OSU, Studio of Painting
1, Daniel Balaban
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SS
2016/2017 internship at Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT, Studio
Environment, Barbora Klimova
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WS
2016/2017 internship at Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT, Studio of Painting
2, Luděk Rathousky
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2011-2015:
Secondary School of Applied Arts and Higher School of Applied Arts,
Prague
Exhibitions
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2020
◦
Final
solution to the
children
question,
exhibition
at the Billboart Gallery
with Global Genocide Collective, FUD
UJEP,
Ústí
nad Labem
•
2020
◦ Intervention to the ODS campaign (during senate
elections),
performance with Global Genocide Collective, Brno
•
2020
◦ March for the sand on villas,
performance with Global Genocide Collective, intervention to ecological March
for the water for people at Veselí
nad Moravou
•
2020
◦ 1/2
decade of Painting 1,
Gallery
HYB4,
Praha
(collective)
•
2019
◦ Only
those who try harder will survive,
pedagogical
intervention performance, lecturer accompanying program with
Global Genocide Collective, Gallery
209 at the FaVU Christmas party,
Brno
•
2019
◦
Party-Extinct-Repeat,
3-day long performance with Global Genocide Collective, Teren - CED,Brno
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2019
◦
Pilgrimage
to Stara Boleslav - st. Anthony (collective)
•
2018
◦
exhibition
of bachelor thesis Tygo Dream (Pneuservis, VEGA healthy food, Ostrava
City Library
branch office Daliborova, Maryčka - cafe, Žalak - pub, Plato - wc
in gallery, Salvation Army,
Boček - bakery, FER@NET net - cafe, Salt cave Halos)
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2018
◦
Comfort
balcony, Mine Michal, Ostrava (collective)
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2017
◦
Studio
Environment - To All, Cyril gallery, Prostějov (collective)
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2015
◦
Mystery
puzzle, Teplarna cafe, Brno
◦
Pilgrimage
to Stara Boleslav (collective)
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2014
◦
Pilgrimage
to Stara Boleslav (collective)
Contact
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laznickova.kl@gmail.com