Slepice / Hen, 2016
Collection the artist, Photo by Gabriel Urbánek
Muž a pes / Man and Dog, 2015
Collection the artist, Photo by Gabriel Urbánek
(right) small birds (RAMPANT, TOO)
(left) small birds (RAMPANT)
2010-20, Collection the artist
Photo by Gabriel Urbánek
Horká hlava / Hot Blood, 2018
Collection the artist, Photo by Gabriel Urbánek
NIGHT GARDEN, 2020
Collection the artist, Photo by Gabriel Urbánek
Ivana Šramková – Beings
Saturday, 25 April 2020 – Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Opening Hours: 9:30-18:00 *Latest admission is 30 minutes before closing.
(until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
Closed: First and Third Wednesdays (except 6 May and 2 September), 13 May, 9 September, 2020
Outline
Taking humans and animals as her primary motifs, Czech artist Ivana Šramková (b. 1960) employs an array of techniques to produce work ranging from cast glass sculptures and blown-glass objects and vessels, to oil paintings.
Šramková’s works are inspired by her natural and social surroundings, and her human bodies rendered in simple squares and circles, and distorted animal figures, display the characteristics and inner lives of human/animals as the artist sees them. Quietly occupying their spaces, as well as striking us as gentle and approachable, they have a vaguely melancholy air.
“Beings” will present around 80 mainly recent works, including 43 small birds, plus horses, a fox and other creatures, and pieces on the theme of hidden human emotions, each distinct in character, combining to showcase the unconventional worldview created by Ivana Šramková.
Information
Admission
<General Public> 700 yen (500 yen) <College student> 500 yen (400 yen)
*Price in brackets for groups of 20 or more.
*Admission fee is free for high school students and younger.
*Tickets also allow admission to the Permanent Exhibition.
■Organized by
Toyama Glass Art Museum
■Supported by
Embassy of the Czech Republic, CZECH CENTRE TOKYO, THE KITANIPPON SHIMBUN, THE TOYAMA SHIMBUN, Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., Ltd., TULIP-TV INC., Toyama Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Contact
Toyama Glass Art Museum
bijutsukan-01@city.toyama.lg.jp