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Anna Hulačová

The originality of Anna Hulačová´s work is based on the preciseness, sophisticated sensuousness and comprehensibility of her art vocabulary and above all on the way she revives medieval iconography, the imaginative world of folk art, feasts, myths, rituals and religious liturgy. Hulačová does not observe this world from a safe distance but she simply stays an ordinary, essential part of it, virtually a live impulse standing in full light. Not only as a performer of her shared private rituals but above all as an innovative sculptress with experience of an art restorer and someone who holds traditional handicrafts and work with natural materials in high regard. Anna Hulačová with natural freedom and in a good sense of the word ignores the norms of sculptural groups dozing for the last hundred years in the shade of Modernism.
Ages ago figural sculpture became an intellectual play and a private matter indifferent to religion. Unfortunately, sacral figural sculpture in its progressive form has perhaps completely disappeared or just sublimated into other secular forms, but Anna Hulačová´s sculptures and live performances reflect besides honest doubts and grim thoughts also some kind of passionate and immaculate firmness. It may seem slightly mannerist, however, it shows firmness and today a very rare belief that sculpture in principle wholly belongs to religious art.

artistsAnna Hulačová
place_Neurčené město
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castAnna Hulačová
cameraEva Jiřička
soundEva Jiřička
editingEva Jiřička
interviewEva Jiřička
translationZuzana Rousová
categoryProfiles
published18. 1. 2016
languageČesky / English
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