BIOGRAPHY
Zuzana Čížková ZČK deals in her work with the questions of contemporary life goals in the Western world at the turn of the century, in connection with the transformation of spiritual life into technical progress, the symbiosis of humans with nature, communication and the people’s pursuit of material values and the suppression of emotional life. In her work, she also embodies her personal experience with the real perception of the world and internal experiences from the same space, place and time, but also the fact that we are not robots and that the body and spirit must also be in symbiosis. Her sculptural works in exterior spaces always respond to their intended locations so that they are not just decorations, but encourage passers-by to react to them, to touch the cold concrete buttocks, to take pictures in the view of a monumental postcard motif, or to ponder what the relief inscription in sign language is shouting. Zuzana Čížková creates her works in individual cycles. For example, Romantic Landscape of the 21st Century, We Are Not Robots, Birth, Beings, Hands and Sign Language, Event‘s Horizon. She uses dynamic shapes and impasto colours in her work, in order to create a relaxing or, on the contrary, an energetic charge for the viewers. They act as the pills for challenges of modern civilization.
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graduate of the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague (Master of Arts), from the Department of Fine Arts, Kurt Gebauer’s studio.
Internships both in the Czech Republic and abroad,
– in France with Vladimír Škoda,
– in Switzerland in the studio of Ludwig Stocker,
– in Prague in the studio of Olbram Zoubek.
She has exhibited with these authors as well.
exhibitions in many prestigious venues both in the Czech Republic and abroad,
– the Presidential Gallery in Brussels,
– the Grand Palais in Paris,
– the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome,
– the Karolinum in Prague,
– the National Museum,
– twice in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle.
Awards:
– Winton Train Award – “Inspiration by Goodness Prague – London”
– selected to exhibit as the only artist from the Czech Republic at the 116th edition of Artistes Indépendants in Paris.
– Zuzana Čížková’s paintings were selected for the international exhibition Significant Works of Contemporary Slovak and Czech Art.
21 solo exhibitions in her portfolio, including a solo exhibition in Paris – Suzana Cizkova – La galerie Thuiller
and traveling exhibitions in the USA.
Zuzana’s sculptural free creations in public spaces include locations such as Prague – Prosek, Prague – Smíchov, the castle garden in Brandýs nad Labem, Poděbrady and many other cities.
Czech television has made two documentaries and several short profiles about Zuzana.
STATEMENT
Art could be a gateway to higher goals.
I deal with communication and symbiosis between man and nature. I try to make the colorful layers on my canvases give, to give viewers energy, joy and a positive view of the world. So that my work might act as visual antidepressants.
I create my paintings in individual cycles. Romantic Landscape of the 21st Century, Birth, We Are Not Robots, Horizon of Events.
