The iceberg method, group exhibition No Weather Today, Pilsen City Gallery, in cooperation with Andea Uváčiková, 2023
“It’s just the tip of the iceberg.” The tip of the iceberg as something superficial that we can see with the naked eye, but there is usually something more underneath. The tip of the iceberg as a small part of what is. As a foreboding of things to come.
At first glance, the installation lends itself to the primary idea of melting glaciers as a result of global warming. Unfortunately, even nowadays, the global environmental crisis seems so distant to many people that they consider it something that is happening “outside them”, something that does not concern them, or they deny it completely. Who and how is it affected by the fact that somewhere on the opposite end of the globe a glacier melts or that the temperature of the sea rises by a few degrees? It’s just the tip of the iceberg. Below it is a package of known consequences that are waiting for our planet, but also the unknown space of our future world, which we are approaching with our daily way of life. Can our worries, fears, stress and other subjective experiences also be a consequence of how is our society working? Can they also be a symptom of a life that is anxiously separated from the problems “out there”, at the other end of the planet, separated from the environment in which we live? And vice versa: are our subjective problems really subjective, or in the context of the entire planetary development, do they offer other explanations than that they are some kind of “defect of each individual”?
Text: Andrea Uváčiková
The installation consists of two objects, the first containing the text HOT, which is immersed in the aquarium. The text is printed from soluble PVA plastic, on which there is a layer of printing ink. The work is procedural. After the letters dissolve, only the color sinks.
The second object contains a sculpture resembling an iceberg, where only the tip is soluble. The object is placed in the aquarium together with a pump that pumps water to the tip of the object. The water starts only when a visitor arrives, a motion sensor is located near the object.
The installation contains drawings/texts that follow the objects. The drawings expand into the space around the objects on the floor.
Virtual exhibition, curator Andrea Uváčiková, VIR Virtual Gallery, 2023
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The exhibition Never Realized Sculptures by Zuzana Bartošová is a collection of never realized sculptures that are on view for the first time at the VIR gallery. The artist uses the virtual space of the gallery and its specifics, such as the absence of gravity, the possibility of viewing the sculptures from unusual angles or details of the sculptures. The exhibition also includes 2D images representing other unrealised sculptures or individual phases documenting their creation.
Joint exhibition with Václav Kočí, Chrudim Exhibition Hall, 2023
The summer exhibition in the Pippich Theater is characterized by colors, light and transformations. The project of two Brno artists, sculptor Zuzana Bartošová and conceptual painter Václav Kočí, is a dialogue about color and light. For both, although differently for each, color is an important medium of communication.
Text: Martina Vítková
Visualization of proposal to competition to create Marie Restituta sculpture, Brno, 2023
The main idea of the whole proposal is the imaginary connection of the statue with the nearby birthplace of Maria Restituta in Husovice, Brno. The dimensions of the statue are based on the layout of the house where she spent the first years of her life under the name Marie Kafková. The sculpture maintains the house’s aspect ratio on a reduced scale to fit more into the park’s designated location. More than an accurately represented house, it should be a place where it is possible to hide from the surroundings and can thus serve as a kind of reflection, contemplation or shelter from the surrounding world. The walls are cut so as not to create a completely enclosed space, but to connect the monument with the park. The technology of 3D printed concrete is chosen for the reason that, in imagination, the individual layers resemble the layering of time. In the individual layers of concrete, we can see the events and life’s sorrows that Maria Restituta encountered during her life. The undulations of the walls and the fluid form of the house are reminiscent of certain twists, journeys and sufferings in her life. Two glass crosses are placed in the walls, which symbolize her devotion to faith and refer to the incident when she refused to remove the symbols of faith from the walls of the hospital and thus came into conflict with the Nazi authorities. The crosses in the walls are made of green glass, as a reference to Marie Restituta’s fondness for beer, the glass should remotely resemble bottle glass in color. The crosses are placed so that they can be seen in or out, and their translucence should allow the sun’s rays to penetrate through.
Technical solution:
The memorial consists of two L-shaped walls, which will be 3D printed from concrete. L shape measures: 4360mmX2630mm, wall thickness 100mm, each wall consists of 2 layers of print with a diameter of 50-70mm. Concrete foundations must be placed under the wall in strips 500 mm wide and 800 mm deep.
