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These drawings of Agneska KRUSOVICE, a Prague artist, express her discontent with and criticism of the official arts of the communist regime. Like many artists of her generation, she was seeking new avenues of expression. She was passionate to share her visions, and in 2000 she began teaching young people while at the same time she was finding her own unique voice as an artist. In her first stage of development (1995 to 2000) KRUSOVICE focused on the beauty of common everyday objects. She wanted to express the poetic character of things, often combining poetry with her painting. In doing so, she was paying her respects to the spirit of Poeticism - the 1920`s and 1930`s avant garde of Czech art. In what she sees as his next stage of development, magical realism (2000 to the present) she joins a body of classical artists who have drawn the Madonna and Child. She calls this the new synthesis. Krusovice is one of the most original and extraordinary talents to emerge from Eastern Europe onto the international art scene. KRUSOVICE is classified as an alien of extraordinary ability in the field of arts, an artist whose style is very unique and exceptional. She does not copy any particular master, rather draws in a style which is uniquely her own. Through her paintings she expresses the poetic character of things, Krusovice seeks mysterious reality in her technological motifs depicting objects of everyday life, such as bottles, her surname is the same as a famous Czech beer, coldness mingling with hallucinations in the monochromatic shades of things. This is her first show in England.

 


"Some of these works are an homage to Donnatello, Rouault and Italian Vogue. When I have an insomniac night, I get up and do something, or make something, or write. Last night, I grabbed one of my sticks of compressed charcoal and some wallpaper i stitched to the size I wanted, some loose pages from an old notebook, and wrote three pages of haiku, plus twenty or thirty drawings. I wrote about the memories and dreams that were in my mind. I wrote about the charcoal itself. [The drawings are made with compressed charcoal on heavyweight lining wallpaper, sellotaped together.]I drew memories of friends and images of the past, and anticipations of my next journey. I drew till the images faded, as they apparently had wanted to do. I drew till the tidal push was over, and the pressure eased, then I could fall asleep peacefully, my whirling mind calmed and settled. I awoke feeling calm and refreshed, with a mind of quietnessmore at peace than ever." April 2009


bn11 [Sussex Gallery of Modern Art] confirms the opening of the galleries third show for April [Private View 19.30 11th of April 2009 : Opening times : Monday-Saturday 12-6 Other times by arrangement. Telephone 01903 533 834 East Tower, Beachparade, Splashpoint, off Brighton Road, BN11

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