Monika Michalko: Here in the real world.
Snoeck| N° d'inventaire | 31264 |
| Format | 22 x 29 |
| Détails | 230 p., publisher's cloth bound. |
| Publication | Gend, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9783864424434 |
Trees and plant tendrils, birds and mushrooms, dwellings and interiors as decors: Monika Michalko (*1982 Sokolov, Czech Republic) brings together figurative and objective, organic and ornamental, abstract and architectural elements in her painting. The compositions of her paintings are always fictional: memories, fantasies and dreamlike scenes form a pictorial universe defined by its own laws. The specific tonality of her works also reinforces their dreamlike character. These compositions always remotely recall modern artists such as Paul Klee, Kasimir Malewitsch, Giorgio de Chirico, Odilon Redon or James Ensor. In her tableau vivant "Ship of Fools" from 2023, various performers, including children and a dog, appear in a setting with strong waves of corrugated cardboard on the verge of breaking. Monika Michalko achieves an exciting balance between animate and inanimate, static and movement. The depiction of a lost ship full of fools has many references to Nuremberg: Sebastian Brant's (1457–1521) late medieval moral satire "Ship of Fools" was one of the most popular illustrated German-language works of the 15th century. Among the artists Brant collaborated with in Basel on the illustrations was also the young Albrecht Dürer. Monika Michalko finds a new interpretation of the motif here and offers a contemporary metaphor to describe the state of our chaotic world.
Trees and plant tendrils, birds and mushrooms, dwellings and interiors as decors: Monika Michalko (*1982 Sokolov, Czech Republic) brings together figurative and objective, organic and ornamental, abstract and architectural elements in her painting. The compositions of her paintings are always fictional: memories, fantasies and dreamlike scenes form a pictorial universe defined by its own laws. The specific tonality of her works also reinforces their dreamlike character. These compositions always remotely recall modern artists such as Paul Klee, Kasimir Malewitsch, Giorgio de Chirico, Odilon Redon or James Ensor. In her tableau vivant "Ship of Fools" from 2023, various performers, including children and a dog, appear in a setting with strong waves of corrugated cardboard on the verge of breaking. Monika Michalko achieves an exciting balance between animate and inanimate, static and movement. The depiction of a lost ship full of fools has many references to Nuremberg: Sebastian Brant's (1457–1521) late medieval moral satire "Ship of Fools" was one of the most popular illustrated German-language works of the 15th century. Among the artists Brant collaborated with in Basel on the illustrations was also the young Albrecht Dürer. Monika Michalko finds a new interpretation of the motif here and offers a contemporary metaphor to describe the state of our chaotic world.