Zero Gravity (Tonal Echoes) VI

70% of the hammer price is allocated to support the non-profit foundation Spolu s odvahou, a member of the Bátor Tábor Family.

Although Monika Žáková graduated from Jiří Sopek’s painting studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, in addition to painting she soon began to focus on working with materials such as fabric, metal, paper, and plaster. The objects she creates are hanging works, often delicate reliefs that can resemble paintings. Žáková creates abstract, minimalist, monochromatic surfaces furrowed with subtle lines or shaped with delicate folds. She has an interest in working with light flowing across surfaces and the illusion of space, without, however, leaving the plane of the canvas. Her formal analysis of abstraction is executed with an almost haptic sensibility, not infrequently reminiscent of certain abstract constructivist tendencies of the 1960s. However, she also opens up the theme of intuition, with works evoking inner landscapes or imprints of memory. Žáková’s object Zero Gravity (Tonal Echoes) comes from an eponymous series of plaster casts on boards, and it is an example of a work in which she uses light as a medium for illustrating the surface of the object and also as a vehicle for the poetic and philosophical dimension of the piece.