Anna Zemánková,
Curator: Lukas Hofmann
First monographic exhibition devoted to Anna Zemánková in Prague. Open until January 16, 2022 at FUTURA .
The project introduces the strange world of her plant compositions, seeks to analyse the formal development of her work, and to place it in the contemporary art context . The exhibition also includes a series of works - butterflies, smaller satin works, and early drawings - which have not yet been exhibited.
It was in the early 1960s that this Moravian woman began producing a body of work for which her humble background had not prepared her and which responded strikingly to injunctions from the innermost depths. Thus, at a time when the demons of the night were still competing with the seminal iridescence of dawn, she would gather strange flowers in her mind before drawing them forth on paper. ‘‘I grow flowers that don’t grow anywhere else,’’ she used to say. Anna Zemánková is already an established figure in the art brut, so much so that in 2013 she was honored at the 55th Venice Biennale before an important group of her works joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2020.