Monika Žáková
Untitled (B106)
Artist
Monika Žáková
(1987, Praha), Czech
Original Title
Bez názvu (B106)
Date2018
Mediumspray on the paper on the canvas
Dimensions180 × 120 × 4,5 cm
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionMonika Žaková is a Czech artist. Her works develop the style of geometrical abstraction, but she also works within the sphere of contemporary discourse. Her art works exude a tremendous amount of focus. She combines a methodic, rational approach with the sensitive emotional grasp and sensual relationship to the work’s material essence and surface texture. In recent years, she has moved towards examining the boundaries between flat and spatial depictions, between the painting and the object, and has focused on examining the expressive means of individual materials. Her predominantly monochrome paintings, collages and also three-dimensional aluminum objects, which she transforms and composes through various creative means to show an illusory refraction of matter and colour, oftentimes blur any visual boundaries. In most of her art works she works through addition, layering and folding.
Untitled (B106) is a representation of the artist's occupation with the surface and the spatial experience. The artist examines, for example, the nature of the material by trying various tools on it. In this series of works, the colour is sprayed onto the paper, which completely robs the artist of any trace of authorial style. The basic structure is the outcome of folding the paper before it is stretched onto the canvas base. The work shows an almost spiritual dimension where the darkest lower parts fade upwards towards a lighter palette. The texture and haptic nature of the paper at the same time evokes a dematerialisation of real entities, described by Franco Bifo Berrardi in his theory of semiotic capitalism.
Monika Žaková (*1987, Prague) attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 2006 to 2012, where she studied in the studio of Jiří Sopek. In 2011 she studied in the studio of Ralf Kerbach at the HFBK in Dresden. In 2014 she won 3rd place of the Art Critic’s Award of the Award for Young Artists under 30. She regularly presents her work in Czechia, as well as abroad.
Untitled (B106) is a representation of the artist's occupation with the surface and the spatial experience. The artist examines, for example, the nature of the material by trying various tools on it. In this series of works, the colour is sprayed onto the paper, which completely robs the artist of any trace of authorial style. The basic structure is the outcome of folding the paper before it is stretched onto the canvas base. The work shows an almost spiritual dimension where the darkest lower parts fade upwards towards a lighter palette. The texture and haptic nature of the paper at the same time evokes a dematerialisation of real entities, described by Franco Bifo Berrardi in his theory of semiotic capitalism.
Monika Žaková (*1987, Prague) attended the Academy of Fine Arts from 2006 to 2012, where she studied in the studio of Jiří Sopek. In 2011 she studied in the studio of Ralf Kerbach at the HFBK in Dresden. In 2014 she won 3rd place of the Art Critic’s Award of the Award for Young Artists under 30. She regularly presents her work in Czechia, as well as abroad.
