Běla KOLÁŘOVÁ 1923-2010
Business Cards (Diary from the week in the mountains), 1977
Assemblage of metal frames and makeup on card
37 x 32 cm
The Business Cards is from her Make-Up series, which she began in 1976 and continued to work on through the early 80s. Like her earlier assemblages using paper clips, snap-fasteners,...
The Business Cards is from her Make-Up series, which she began in 1976 and continued to work on through the early 80s. Like her earlier assemblages using paper clips, snap-fasteners, razor blades etc. this work uses makeup - a “found” medium. It is one of her only series which explicitly references female identity and gender; the use of cosmetics a reference to the role of women as objects of beauty in society. It is a striking work and quintessential Kolarova.
Exhibitions
Butterfly Time, Richard Saltoun Gallery New York, 2024
Outside, Looking In, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2023
Our Inheritance Was Left To Us By No Testament, Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 2020House of the sleeping beauties, S|2 Gallery, London UK, 2019
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