"Owl, Soul and Heart"
21 Morrow Ave, Toronto ON, M6R 2H9
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Veronika Holcová
Christopher Cutts Gallery
21 Morrow Ave, Toronto ON, M6R 2H9
P:1(416)532-5566 F:1(416)532-7272 e-mail:
September 8 > October 1, 2016
 Soul of Spring, 2015 - 2016 acrylic and oil on canvas 45.25" x 53" (115 x 135 cm) |
 Him (He), 2016 oil on paper 29.5" x 22" (75 x 56 cm) |
Seeking the Light – New Work by Veronika Holcová
New horizons commonly bring about fresh perspectives in an artist's work. Less frequently, the new gaze materializes as the embodiment of often inchoate images created at an earlier stage and which it then transforms.
Internalizing Canada's colossal scale and wild, near- limitless landscape, the proud hegemony of its climate, the stern silence of snow-packed spaces and the rich relief, in turns mountainous, riverine, wooded-at once exuberant and mysterious--has opened up a new dimension, as well as a new depth, in the onirical landscapes of the Czech artist Veronika Holcová. In one of his most striking nature poems, ,,Lakeshore", Canadian poet F.R. Scott expressed the essence of the evocative, secret-ridden nature of a landscape that shares affinity with Holcová's vision of the world within.
... And I am a tall frond that waves
Its head below its rooted feet
Seeking the light that draws it down
To forest floors beyond its reach
Vivid with gloom and eerie dreams.
Internationally recognized for her work infused with Surrealist and Romantic antecedents, Holcová has exhibited widely. Her smaller, tactile paintings in oil on hand-made paper conjure up creatures of the spirit and of the forest - luminous, erotically charged and provocative. But it is her recent, expansive ,,landscape" paintings that have taken their dense, supernatural, mystical charge and brought it inside the magnificent, terrifying and infinitely varied landscape of the artist's host country.
Irena Žantovská Murray
Sept. 2016
New horizons commonly bring about fresh perspectives in an artist's work. Less frequently, the new gaze materializes as the embodiment of often inchoate images created at an earlier stage and which it then transforms.
Internalizing Canada's colossal scale and wild, near- limitless landscape, the proud hegemony of its climate, the stern silence of snow-packed spaces and the rich relief, in turns mountainous, riverine, wooded-at once exuberant and mysterious--has opened up a new dimension, as well as a new depth, in the onirical landscapes of the Czech artist Veronika Holcová. In one of his most striking nature poems, ,,Lakeshore", Canadian poet F.R. Scott expressed the essence of the evocative, secret-ridden nature of a landscape that shares affinity with Holcová's vision of the world within.
... And I am a tall frond that waves
Its head below its rooted feet
Seeking the light that draws it down
To forest floors beyond its reach
Vivid with gloom and eerie dreams.
Internationally recognized for her work infused with Surrealist and Romantic antecedents, Holcová has exhibited widely. Her smaller, tactile paintings in oil on hand-made paper conjure up creatures of the spirit and of the forest - luminous, erotically charged and provocative. But it is her recent, expansive ,,landscape" paintings that have taken their dense, supernatural, mystical charge and brought it inside the magnificent, terrifying and infinitely varied landscape of the artist's host country.
Irena Žantovská Murray
Sept. 2016
 Best Friend, 2016 oil on paper 16.5" x 11.75" (43 x 30 cm) |
 Magnet, 2015 - 2016 acrylic and oil on canvas 53" x 45.25" (135 x 115 cm) |
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Thursday, September 8, 6-9PM
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