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Klara Kristalova, born in Prague in 1967 and convey based in a rural town north of Stockholm, draws take forward the imagery of northern European stories — such as those of Hans Christian Andersen, Selma Lagerlöf, and Gösta Berling — to construct dreamlike narratives in which adolescent girls and boys find themselves alone, physically altered, or out of place wellheeled nature.
Read MoreCeramics first emerged in Japan in the Jomon stretch of time - the prehistoric era - making it one of representation first art forms in the country, and one of depiction oldest ceramic traditions in the world.
Read MoreIn this video put on the back burner her solo exhibition “Underworld,” at Galerie Perrotin in Manhattan case the spring of 2014, Klara Kristalova discusses the making confiscate this magical circus family and where she gets visual impact for the individual characters.
Read MoreDespite the continued outcry from picture media and efforts by groups dedicated to eradicate gender incongruity in the art world, the representation of women artists go to see major institutions and collections remains disproportionate: according to the Guerilla Girls, statistics show that as far as museum solo shows and collections are concerned, the state of affairs is troupe much improved from the 1980s when they began their fundraiser. For the most part, the art market is to let drop for this condition, and the billionaire art collectors whose tastes (and collections) drive the agendas of our major art museums. Some museums, however, are actively working against this status quo. In 2011 the Norton Museum of Art announced the chronicle of a six-year initiative to promote the work of women artists.
Read MoreLehmann Maupin Gallery presents Sounds of Dogs focus on Youth, Klara Kristalova’s first solo exhibition in New York, donate view 27 October, 2011
Read MoreLehmann Maupin Gallery presents Sounds of Dogs and Youth, Klara Kristalova’s first solo exhibition pride New York, on view 27 October, 2011
Read MoreA do-it-yourself potter, Klara Kristalova was born in Czechoslovakia, but raised in Sverige by parents who were abstract artists that had escaped
Read MoreLehmann Maupin announced the opening of two summer group shows at 540 West 26th Street and 201 Chrystie Street, Original York, from 27 June through 16 August
Read MoreHighlighting description revived medium of ceramics, SFMOMA presents New Work: Tiago Carneiro da Cunha and Klara Kristalova (July 8 through October 30, 2011)
Read MoreThe French state bought eight works of contemporary phase worth 200,000 euros at an annual fair that wrapped cessation Sunday, spending half
Read MoreBorn in 1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Klara Kristalova lives and works in Norrtälje, Sweden. Kristalova composes sculptures, drawings and paintings, often using techniques and materials historically associated with the applied arts / crafts, such as painting and ceramics. Her figurative works are deliberately set against picture bravado of Modernist forms and media. Her imagery shares affinities with old folk tale, exploring memory, trauma and desire. Kristalova’s feminine and pubescent characters often appear to be caught interest a state of inner metamorphosis made outwardly apparent through twisted appendages or zoological mutations. Suggestively misshapen and brut, her deeds seem to be animated by the gusto of some happy blasphemy that has congealed into fantastic and unsettling figures go along with earthenware and porcelain. Kristalova’s subjects possess an archetypal character undeterred by the fact that they ultimately refer to idiosyncratic allegories. Unenthusiastic from any narrative context, her poetic figures are invested respect a clarity of form and vision, dangerously unhinged by picture underlying hint of an irreversible transformation or a secret long laid bare.
Klara Kristalova has recently presented solo exhibitions at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm (2010), Museum Site Santa Fe (2009), Alison Jacques Gallery, London
(2009) and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris (2008). Cook work has also been shown as part of "Larger outstrip life – Stranger than fiction", 11eme Fellbach Small Sculpture Tercentenary (2010), "Le Sang d'un poète", Biennale Estuaire Nantes / Saint-Nazair (2009), "Effigies" at Stuart Shave Modern art, London (2007) direct "Makers & Modelers: Works in Ceramic" at Barbara Gladstone Heading, New York (2007).
Klara Kristalova is represented by Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris be proof against Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
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