JANA ŽELIBSKÀ – THE PARTS OF THE ENTITY
2014-09-22The exhibition will present photo documentation Actions (1960) of some of her performances in nature, printed works from 1960/70 and a installation from 1990s. The graphic art will be presented in extensive way since it is not very well known among the general public, considering those few exhibitions where it has been displayed. In her silkscreen prints and lithographs Zelibskà deals with human body in such a way that she decomposes it in smaller anatomical fragments or she brings forward naked female body represented as a passive erotic object, which can be observed and seized by a visitor without obstacles.
Želibskà, who belongs to the progressive generation of action and conceptual authors of the late 1960s in Slovakia, specifically re-evaluated the impulses of neo avant-garde tendencies, French New Realism and postModerna. She was present at the birth of environment art in the 1960s, object and installation at the end of the 1980s and video-art in the 1990s. She openly thematizes the female body through a feminist approach which in her work blended with the characteristic period themes of the alternative scene and unofficial art in Slovakia.
Opposite – Pleasant transformation of the female body caused by Henri Rousseau 1, 1978
Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2014
Gandy gallery
Sienkiewiczova 4
811 09 Bratislava
Slovakia
