Perhaps no other artistic medium offers as strong a corporeal experience of creation and emphasis on materiality as classical sculptural techniques, and Tereza Štětinová’s work reflects these qualities very clearly.
She uses traditional noble materials such as Carrara marble, alabaster, onyx, and ebony wood, which she combines with metal, textiles, or even bird feathers. But she also considers it important to work with found wood and, above all, to use the materials in their entirety, which is evident in her sculptural collages. Using heavy materials, she attempts to represent lightness and delicacy, elusive phenomena suspended in time. Her works also reflect themes of mysticism and mythology, spirituality and cultural archetypes, as well as personal, intimate experiences and memories of childhood, with its natural openness to things beyond the bounds of reality. It is childhood that is the source of the artist’s personal mythology, an initiatory experience influenced by her exposure to Christian artistic artifacts. Her sculptures often work with religious symbolism, flat linear drawing, frontal depictions, and a crude process evoking the cult objects of unspecified cultures and the rustic art of past centuries.
Perhaps no other artistic medium offers as strong a corporeal experience of creation and emphasis on materiality as classical sculptural techniques, and Tereza Štětinová’s work reflects these qualities very clearly.
She uses traditional noble materials such as Carrara marble, alabaster, onyx, and ebony wood, which she combines with metal, textiles, or even bird feathers. But she also considers it important to work with found wood and, above all, to use the materials in their entirety, which is evident in her sculptural collages. Using heavy materials, she attempts to represent lightness and delicacy, elusive phenomena suspended in time. Her works also reflect themes of mysticism and mythology, spirituality and cultural archetypes, as well as personal, intimate experiences and memories of childhood, with its natural openness to things beyond the bounds of reality. It is childhood that is the source of the artist’s personal mythology, an initiatory experience influenced by her exposure to Christian artistic artifacts. Her sculptures often work with religious symbolism, flat linear drawing, frontal depictions, and a crude process evoking the cult objects of unspecified cultures and the rustic art of past centuries.
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Czech Republic
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