art works

The work 17 November was created in 2014 and is also part of the art collection of the Orava Gallery in Dolný Kubín. The archival print is published in a limited edition, printed on cotton paper. It points out that freedom is not a given and that its celebration is worth remembering every year. November 17 is national holiday in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia and commemorates Fight for Freedom and Democracy.

The calling of a heron, the bleating of a deer, the singing of water, the touch of clay, clay in the mouth. Thirst. It takes me a long time to get to you. Many times I walk through the forest and touch the dirt with my bare feet. I can hear your muscles moving but you're not here. I see you. I feel the kiss and the taste of forest colours and scents as thin as the sounds from everywhere. Surrounded by a kiss, resting on the ground.

The Autumnist series is a free continuation of the Fallen Petals series. It was created from drawings of pressed flower petals that the author found in the Netherlands during her internship. She put them in a notebook and forgot about them. After a long time, she found them and as a reminder of the memories of the time spent abroad, she turned them into a series of graphics.

The Autumnist series is more focused on the shape of the individual petals and the combination of 2 or 3 colours. The name comes from autumn, which for Lívia is mostly defined by the changing colours of the leaves on the trees and their falling (and feelings of nostalgia). The graphics are printed with a risograph which uses natural pigments made from rice. Their special feature is the changing colour during pressing. The author tries different colour combinations which are transformed in various ways in the end, just like the leaves in autumn.

The viewer is more used to the author's large-format canvases but in this series, Patrícia Koyšová presents paintings and prints on paper in smaller formats. Here, the paper reveals itself in its naked form. Paintings on paper are not preparatory sketches. They are independent originals, they capture the processes and topics on which the author works during individual series. The theme is not only the painting itself but also small story hidden in the work.