HYB4 Galerie: Kristýna Šormová: Water Herself

Kristýna Dytrych Sormová, born in Příbram in 1985, lives and works in Prague. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with Michael Rittstein and Vladimír Skrepel. This artist's work reflects her personality, but it is not reflected in the calm surface of stagnant water, but rather in the surface of a wild river.

In her abstract work we can observe both fragility and strength, it is natural for her to change the rhythm, to change the approach to the medium, she is constantly searching and discovering. In this work, we find smooth, azure painting, work with prints, work with chance, endless layering ending with monochrome painting, large-format and perforated works on paper, but also gestural modeling of the image, where Kristýna paints with her fingers and creates even relief works that have depth and transferred energy. The exhibition is complemented by her modeled and painted objects in which she continues her haptic thinking and goes beyond the dimension of the image.

I grew up in a place where the road ends at the river. Beyond the river there is only a cemetery. These are the first sentences I heard from Kristýna when we met. It is a wonderful example of life and its fulfillment. Only perfect knowledge and the ability to observe will help us cross safely to the other shore.

When I observe Kristýna's work, I don't need labels and explanations, I feel something familiar, as if it is in all of us. The collective consciousness that was and always will be. I rejoice in art and the weight of life, I trust you man.

Filip Kazda

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The exhibition is completed with music and sound design by Martina Videnová.

The opening will take place on 24 June at 6pm in C.0 HYB4 Gallery.

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Financial partner: City Hall of Prague

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