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 humble Moravian woman began producing a body of work for which her background had not prepared her, responding strikingly to impulses from deep within. Thus, at a time when the demons of the night still contended with the seminal hues of dawn, she would, in her mind, pick strange flowers and bring them to life on paper. Anna Zemánková is now a well-established figure in Art Brut, to the point that she was honored at the Venice Biennale in 2013, before a significant collection of her works was acquired by the Centre Pompidou, followed by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 2020. In 2024, her works will be presented at the Venice Biennale for the second time, under the curatorship of Adriano Pedrosa.