Anna Hulačová

Czech Republic, 1984

Currently lives and works in Český Brod. She studied between 2006 and 2012 at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts, and then continued her studies in Seoul and in Aberdeen (Scotland). Her sculptural art shares aspects with the figurative styles, with roots in the traditions and techniques of Czech folklore, ancient mythologies of Asian cultures as well as elements of Christian symbolism, all of which she presents embedded in a sort of post-socialist aesthetic. She has an interest in working with concrete, a medium which she often mixes with radically different materials (wood, dough, paper, beeswax) and often complements her works with digital prints and photographs.

In her sculptural works, Anna Hulačová shows interest in primitive cultures, folk traditions and Otto Guttfreund’s interwar sculptures. Earthy figures, or their fragments, often draw from local artistic heritage. The vast use of photographs and drawings, inserted to replace the faces of the figural sculptures, reminds us of Jiří Kolář’s prolagges, whilst the treatment of the form of the figures is reminiscent of interwar civilism or social realism. All this is intertwined with the rural motifs and references to non-European civilizations in a work of art in which the archaic meets the present.

Represented by Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon.