Anna Hulačová
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Artist
Anna Hulačová
(1984, Sušice), Czech
Original Title
Untitled
Date2018
Mediumvarnished concrete graphite on paper mounted on an aluminium plate
Dimensions67 × 97 × 62 cm
Classificationssculpture
Credit LineKunsthalle Praha
DescriptionIn her sculptures and allegorical imagery, Anna Huláčová addresses the questions of a quickly changing world. She observes the contemporary world and its problems through the eyes of a person living in the countryside, intensely experiencing the devastating influence of technological progress. Her work is characterised by the tension between the local and the global, as well as that between utopia and dystopia, the natural and the digital, evolution and mutation, science fiction and scientific fact. In her composed installations she uses objects inspired by vegetal life and hybrid, mutated figures whose faces are usually replaced by masks in the form of digital print components which seem as non-living monuments to former states of human existence. She finds inspiration for her visions of the future in Classical mythology, Christian religious symbols, east-Asian cultures, folk tradition, but also Modernism, thus reflecting the hybrid nature of contemporary society. She masterfully connects technologies with hand craft, technical features of concrete and digital print with natural elements such as wax, honeycomb and wood. The colour scheme of her works is usually replaced by a pronounced material contrast of the individual components.
The hybrid concrete object with an inlaid paper panel with the depiction of bees combines the abstract and representative form in one quasi-organic whole. The plastic morphology which changes when observed from different angles reflects the issue of mutation which occur in nature due to the reckless extraction of harmful and chemical elements. Bees constitute one of the most endangered insects and reflects the crisis of agriculture which was begotten by the agricultural collectivisation, and the contemporary globalised agricultural politics only served to strengthen it.
Anna Hulačová (*1984, Sušice) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where she attended the sculpting studio of Jaroslav Róna and the Studio of Intermedial Works II with Jiří Příhoda. She took study trips to the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul and Gray’s School of Arts in Aberdeen. She was awarded a special invitation by the Vienna Insurance Group to the Essl Art Award (2009). In 2016 she was among the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In the summer of 2020, she went on residency in The Albert Gleizes Foundation in Moly-Sabata in France. Hulačová presented her work in many renown Czech institutions, such as the National Gallery, the Gallery of the City of Prague, MeetFactory or the Hunt Kastner Artworks. In 2014 she was selected for a residency at the CEAAC in Strasbourg where she then presented her solo exhibition. In the international context, she was also represented in London’s Kunstraum (Graceful Ride, 2018), the Palais de Tokyo (CHILDHOOD: Another Banana Day for the Dream Fish, 2018) or at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (Underworld, 2018).
The hybrid concrete object with an inlaid paper panel with the depiction of bees combines the abstract and representative form in one quasi-organic whole. The plastic morphology which changes when observed from different angles reflects the issue of mutation which occur in nature due to the reckless extraction of harmful and chemical elements. Bees constitute one of the most endangered insects and reflects the crisis of agriculture which was begotten by the agricultural collectivisation, and the contemporary globalised agricultural politics only served to strengthen it.
Anna Hulačová (*1984, Sušice) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague where she attended the sculpting studio of Jaroslav Róna and the Studio of Intermedial Works II with Jiří Příhoda. She took study trips to the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul and Gray’s School of Arts in Aberdeen. She was awarded a special invitation by the Vienna Insurance Group to the Essl Art Award (2009). In 2016 she was among the finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award. In the summer of 2020, she went on residency in The Albert Gleizes Foundation in Moly-Sabata in France. Hulačová presented her work in many renown Czech institutions, such as the National Gallery, the Gallery of the City of Prague, MeetFactory or the Hunt Kastner Artworks. In 2014 she was selected for a residency at the CEAAC in Strasbourg where she then presented her solo exhibition. In the international context, she was also represented in London’s Kunstraum (Graceful Ride, 2018), the Palais de Tokyo (CHILDHOOD: Another Banana Day for the Dream Fish, 2018) or at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (Underworld, 2018).
