Barbora Klímová
1977, Brno, Czech Republic.
Lives and works in Sobotovice, Czech Republic


Also in the latest hanging objects by Barbora Klímová, the tradition of art geometry and minimalism adds up with the authoress' ability to inject conventional schemes with emotional visual accents. However, their emphasis of passage to the environment they come from has increased.
Materials used by Klímová are transparent or coinciding with the colour of the gallery walls. She composes them into bodies made of parallel laths, which may resemble blinds or cases of ventilation systems. Both the materials and the range of references to design pertain to sophisticated mimicry, however. They make the objects almost unnoticeable. We just expect to see such objects in interiors. Therefore they surprise us when proved as aesthetical intended works by petty visual effects.
We can consider them an antipole of the diversion tendencies in
contemporary arts. They have both aesthetical and social import, violate the once given, become implants into social-cultural consciousness of space, and bestir our routine-weary cerebral cortex, not behaving
parasitically or corruptively though, but symbiotically.
N Jiri Ptacek Jr.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Eskort, Brno, Czech Republic; 1999: Cech & Nemec, Brno, Czech Republic.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: In Other Circumstances It Could Be Truth, House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic; 2002: Hedonic Abstraction, Moravian, Brno, Czech Republic; 1999: Pandora Box, House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic.




Untitle, 2002. Plastic

Untitle, 2002. Plastic