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Květa Kovářová – For the Shape of the Figure
Retrospective tracing sculptor Květa Kovářová's path from 1950s figurative works to 1960s abstract and architectural commissions, highlighting an overlooked woman artist of post-war Czechoslovak sculpture.
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Part of a 3.5-metre clay model of a hospital fountain collapsed on Květa Kovářová in her studio in 1966, and she died at 41 without ever having a solo show. For this first one, curator Eliška Nováková says the team tried to show every available work.
You follow her from student pieces to small 1950s figures of people in everyday situations, then into the 1960s, when she stretched proportions and broke figures apart until they became abstract signs. Plaster was her main material, but she also used Modurit, industrial glass foam, wood and laminate, which let her make a five-metre relief of seated nudes for the Jablonex boardroom in Jablonec nad Nisou.
It's for anyone following post-war Czech sculpture; the first book on her comes out with the show. Open daily 10:00 to 18:00 (last entry 17:30), until 22 November. A temporary-exhibitions ticket is 300 CZK, students and seniors 180 CZK.
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Sculptor Květa Kovářová's path from 1950s figures to 1960s abstract and architectural commissions: a retrospective for an overlooked woman in post-war Czechoslovak sculpture.
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- Vojta Náprstek ReloadedCourtesy of Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures
- Museum KampaHynek Moravec (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 2.5
- Czech Museum of MusicAktron / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Franz Kafka MuseumDobroš, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American CulturesVachovec1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Gallery Prague – Wallenstein Riding SchoolVitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0