ARTIST PROFILE
- Czech Republic (b. 1986 in Tábor)
- Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am interested in spatial relations and physical dimensions of an experience.
I often transform these into diverse media outputs: drawings, paintings, site-specific
installation.Going through the pages of my portfolio, I have to describe deeply my
diploma project, which had the essential influence to my later work. The whole
project was inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel “The Baron in the Trees”. My wood and
metal constructions on a tree, a sort of tree house – stage platform was situated in
the park of Slovak National Gallery. The structure would get activated and brought to
life through lectures and performances involving architects, sociologists, urbanists...
The installation was accompanied by “Model of construction on pizza box” and a
series of drawings and collages “The Cities on the Trees”. The drawings and the
model clearly stated my interest in an ephemeral, fragile and intangible reality. In my exhibitions, cut out shapes of papers are often visible, while flying
around in a vertical / suspended way, together with other fragments, collages,
painted lines and printed surfaces, walls made of paper, pigments. Nothing in my
work would suggest any idea of solidity or durability. Everything is temporary and
precarious – even my collages works seem to refuse to be forced into any kind of
frame or constructions. Sometimes they lie between the wall and the floor, folding
between the two rigid surfaces. The idea of a fragile, vertical reality is a recurring
theme in my work.
BIOGRAPHY
Lucie Mičíková is a graduate of the Intermedia and Multimedia Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Prof. Ilona Németh’s Studio „IN“). Her work straddles the line between lability and stability, between destruction and immutability. Her works are an interplay of materials based on creating often temporary objects, collages or scrimages. She works with architectural principles, which she implements in the form of drawings and spatial installation. Spontaneity and playful improvisation with the assembled materials are recast through layering and (ac)cumulation into fragile constructions – an environment somewhere on the fringes of the organic, crystalline and architectural. Architecture is conceived more broadly here, as a place-sanctuary, a localisation, the fixation of a place not only in terms of its spatial boarders but also in the sense of retrieving ephemeral phenomena such as memories, experiences and ideas. Lucie’s drawings – finely tectonic, fibrous structures – can be understood as the substantiation of a view of the world as a complicated, interwoven and structured whole. In her realisations (e.g. Milky River, 2016, When the Peaks of Our Sky Conect, My House Will Have a Roof, 2015, A House Freed from Its Floors, 2015 in cooperation with Zuzana Žabková), she undertakes spatial wall- drawings and frottages where architectural components are transformed into landscape compositions. The artworks begin to proliferate organically. The poetics of the material expands and fills in the gaps in the space.
Ján Kralovič