Zorka Ságlová

Small in actual size but substantive in terms of the works presented, Zorka Ságlová’s exhibition at the Prague office of the auction house Dorotheum shows some of the most important moments in the development of the artist’s oeuvre. In 1966, as a fresh graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, she presented her works in the exhibition Constructive Tendencies. Three years later, however, she decided to leave the gallery space and take her art into everyday life: Together with her friends, she took colorful balls from her last art object and tossed them into Bořín Pond in Průhonice Park. After a long break, she returned to painting in the ’80s, filling the original geometrical structures with the figure of the foolish and unpredictable rabbit, repeated thousands of times. The series Sheilas appears to be no less provocative, yet it is based on the rationality of the author’s structures using the system of sateen weave as well as her continuous effort to revive specific cultural and historical connotations.

Dorotheum