Podcast: Play in new window
Ivana Lomová and I talk in her Prague, Czech republic studio about compromise, Lithography, works on paper, Framing, Knowing when to stop, Overworking your art, Diversification of your techniques and income, Artist residencies, and Artist statements.
About
The work of Ivana Lomová is defined not by the photographic “magic realism”, which makes her images accurately identify the situation in which the depicted characters are located – and when we are subject to her emotional tone, but rather the ability to get the most out of a particular environment. Her works are always somehow localized: to the café, the urban space, the beach, the path, the room.
For her descriptive qualities, if her work is usually included in a broad stream of realism, either with reference to the new materiality of the 1920s or to the Hopper line, these are primarily the categories of romanticism that may best describe its effects.
The frequent choice of a symptom-horizontal canvas format helps melancholy and the dizziness we feel from her paintings. However, in the case of Ivana Lomová, they do not manifest themselves as melancholy contemplating the inconceivable depth or vertigo of the vertical, but as melancholy and vertigo of the surface. What transcends us and what we cannot measure is not our subject or the grandeur of nature beyond any concept, but the mutual reflection of everything we know, what we have at hand and who we are. Mirroring as hopelessness and comfort.
Ivana Lomová is at first sight factual, even descriptive. And it is her careful observation that gently leads us to know how suddenly there is a gap in what we know intimately. Dizziness from the unknown, thanks to the paintings of Ivana Lomová we become ourselves.
-Marek Pokorný
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