The exhibition runs in the Castle Riding Hall in Hluboká nad Vltavou from 8 June to 17 November 2025.
Maria Bartuszová's exhibition at the Alš South Bohemia Gallery in Hluboká nad Vltavou is her first solo exhibition in the Czech Republic. Maria Bartuszová (1936-1996) was born in the former Czechoslovakia, in Prague, where she lived until 1961. She studied at the UMPRUM in Prague and the impulses she received there were crucial for her work. She moved to Slovakia with her husband, sculptor Juraj Bartusz (1933), whom she met during her studies in Prague. The couple settled in Košice, a city that became a new home for Maria Bartusz, where she lived and worked until the end of her life.
The exhibition interprets her most important works - smaller plaster sculptures and their casts in bronze or aluminium, as well as large-scale reliefs and objects, some of which will have their premiere in this exhibition. The exhibition is thematically structured, as the working title suggests, and is also based on her solo exhibition in 1988 in Košice, where Bartuszová formulated her creative programme as an eco-futuristic memento.
Maria Bartuszová sensitively reflected the society and art of the 1960s to 1980s. Contemporary research on her work shows that she considered nature as the thematic and morphological source of her work. She thought not only about what nature is, but also about what humanity is in terms of their essence. Therefore, she naturally came to the themes that are still relevant in the context of the climate crisis - ecology, ecofeminist motifs, especially motherhood, care for humans and the environment of which humans are a part. Her works are accessible to all because they evoke familiar feelings and sensations associated with life: the beginning of life, sexuality, birth, growth and death.
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