Marie Rychlíková
Relief Porcelain
Artist
Marie Rychlíková
(1923, Praha), Czech
Original Title
Relief Porcelain
Date2011
Mediumporcelain pressed into the mold
Dimensions28 × 27,5 cm
Classificationssculpture
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionMarie Rychlíková is a Czech sculptor and ceramicist. Experimentation, the conscious show of materials used, perfect technical execution and formal austerity are all integral components of her work. She used geometric shapes such as rectangles, diamonds or triangles, which she places in variously composed structures. These were often taken up by Czech Cubism and can be found in furniture and ceramics by Pavel Janák and Vlastislav Hofman.
Porcelain Relief is a composition of rectangular individual pieces, which in turn are lined up in a rectangular basic form. They form three groups that differ in their formation, but especially by their surface slope. This creates different shades in the white glaze and, despite its material ephemerality, it creates a works which is wholly acceptable among the ranks of fine art.
Marie Rychlíková (*1923, Praha) studied at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of Prof. Otto Eckart and Prof. Jan Kaplický. Her works have been exhibited at international art symposia in Bechyně, Dubí, Horní Slavkov and Karlovy Vary. Along with the collective of exhibited artists, she received a gold medal at the Brussels Expo 58, and in 1965 she was awarded an honorary mention at the international exhibition in Geneva. Her work is featured in collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the Museum of Decorative Arts, or the Ceramics Museum in Bechyně. Rychlíková worked in collaboration with Děvana Mírová and Lýdie Hladíková, who died in 1994. Since the 1960s, they created projects for architecture and managed to show that ceramics can be more than a mere decorative accompaniment to architecture. They gradually moved from working on interiors to exteriors (the façade of the Czechoslovak Pavilion in Montreal, 1967).
Porcelain Relief is a composition of rectangular individual pieces, which in turn are lined up in a rectangular basic form. They form three groups that differ in their formation, but especially by their surface slope. This creates different shades in the white glaze and, despite its material ephemerality, it creates a works which is wholly acceptable among the ranks of fine art.
Marie Rychlíková (*1923, Praha) studied at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of Prof. Otto Eckart and Prof. Jan Kaplický. Her works have been exhibited at international art symposia in Bechyně, Dubí, Horní Slavkov and Karlovy Vary. Along with the collective of exhibited artists, she received a gold medal at the Brussels Expo 58, and in 1965 she was awarded an honorary mention at the international exhibition in Geneva. Her work is featured in collections of the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the Museum of Decorative Arts, or the Ceramics Museum in Bechyně. Rychlíková worked in collaboration with Děvana Mírová and Lýdie Hladíková, who died in 1994. Since the 1960s, they created projects for architecture and managed to show that ceramics can be more than a mere decorative accompaniment to architecture. They gradually moved from working on interiors to exteriors (the façade of the Czechoslovak Pavilion in Montreal, 1967).
