The earth has music for those who listen :
with works by Anna Zemánková
The gallery loaned four works by Czech artist to the Sapling Gallery on the occasion of the group show The Earth has music for those who listen, on view in the gallery’s London space from September 16 to October 6, 2022
The exhibition aims to uncover some of the ways in which living organisms, from plants to humans, participate in a constantly evolving system of shared life. It will focus on the listening of the universal harmony that humans have long ignored, preferring to turn away from it to promote the progress of their own species.
Curated by Claudia Cheng, with artworks by Cecilia Fiona, Cecilia Granara, Yulia Iosilzon, Gal Schindler and Salomé Wu.
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.