exhibition and poetry reading
Opening reception on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 from 7pm
Music Way concert from 8:00pm
We cordially invite you to join us and the artist, Zuzana Lazarova, to celebrate the opening of her solo show hosted by the andel’s Hotel Cracow and Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs AG, as a part of the project ANDEL’S PHOTO. In the course of the opening night, Radek Krzyżowski will read the poems written by the artist. The reading is followed by theMusic Way.
The exhibition will be running through 24.04.2014 to 15.05.2014, at the andel’s Hotel Cracow.
Photography, in common perception, is the art that creates a reflection of reality, the shadows of objects. But now it itself has
become an object, an artifact created not only by the technological process, but also a truly magical act, capable of extracting a new reality from the shared one; a reality that is sometimes more and sometimes less analogic to the primal one. Photography freezes the flux of the surface of reality and, in rare cases, also the tissue hidden underneath: the hypersensitive structure full of forms and meanings that evade classical logic, but nevertheless are ready to be felt and intuited. Through her metamorphoses of fear, acute corporeality, and frenetic displays of the absent objects of desire, where erotic associations intertwine with botanical and zoological motives, the artist unveils what is usually hidden from us – the unsettling beauty of the universe, more often than not accessible only through art.
Zuzana Lazarova – young Czech photographer and poet. Born in 1986, the artist received degrees in Photography at the Institute of Visual Communication and Art, Prague, and History and Theory of Fine Arts at the Masaryk University in Brno. The artist is fascinated by the Czech avant-garde art movement of the middle-war period, a hectic time that witnessed founding of many literary and literary-artistic groups, the majority of which didn’t survive the Second World War. She is also a member of the Czech Surrealist Group. Zuzana Lazarova’s works have been exhibited at many art shows, including the International Surrealistic Art Exhibition JINÝ VZDUCH or FOTO EXPO 2013 in Prague. The poems of Zuzana Lazarova has been published in the anthology The best Czech Poems 2013. A myriad of the artist’s interests and fascinations, amplified by her skills, has resulted in creating art projects of considerable variety. Among others, Lazarova designed the animations and scenes for the last film by the director Jan Švankmajer Surviving Life (Czech: Přežít svůj život) and the layout and illustrations for HYBRIS, the magazine that provides in-depth critical coverage of Czech theatre scene. Zuzana Lazarova and Vaclav Švankmajer run a surrealist gallery Gambra, which focuses on contemporary surrealism and art brut. For the last four years, the artist has also collaborated with the magazines Analogon and A2.
http://www.zuzanalazarova.com/
www.facebook.com/ztlazar
