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Jana Skalická: tvorba a její reflexe ve fotografii
Jana Skalická: work and its photographic reflexion

Author(s): Anna Davidová
Subject(s): History of Art
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Jana Skalická; plastic film; modern tapestry; objects; installation; 1980s; Výstavy na dvoře; object photography; Jaroslav Beneš

Summary/Abstract: The contribution is focusing on the work of the Czech artist Jana Skalická (1957–2015), who was actively creating during the 1980s and the first half of 1990s. At the beginning of her career Skalická worked mainly with textiles, but later on she found a new material, which was better suited for her artistic expression – a plastic film. She was modifing the thin plastics with her own technique, using an iron or a sewing machine. Her art gradually developped from hanging plastic tapestries to three dimensional objects and installations, in which other materials, such as metal, wood, stones and other types of plastic, were incorporated. The majority of Skalická’s works was of an ephemere nature and was not conserved until today. The article is therefore dealing with their photographic depictionand its meaning.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 101-125
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Czech