Stone and Tree | Landscape archetypes by Zdeňka Fusková and Anastasie Serdyuk

Zdeňka deals with forest that is cut down. She depicts it with the glued glass in three indipendent installations. In the first one she creates drawing illusions on a flat opaque glass, with the use of light. The second one in the size of a real tree looks like its mere shadow, the third one plays with our imagination via screening and reflection of reality as well as staged situation on semi-permeable glass. 

Anastasia concentrates on the relationship of litography with audiovisual discourse. In her work she converts stone into drawing and drawing into object. Its structure is given by the educational academic drawing printed on lime plate and with the light. Drawings are installed in several layers through which she projects light on the wall, or directly on the drawings. 

By connecting those two cycles into one exhibition another questions emerge. The tension between objects creating animated shadows and drawings that are installed into objects are a typical example of contemporary post-conceptual work. Both works accentuate phenomena common in art history in one archetype. Trees by Zdeňka Fusková tell story about elusiveness, exploitation and disregard of humans in contrast with personal relationship and recollection. Stones are considered unchangeable and unliving, but trees give them their ephemerality. Fragility of landscape is more than apparent from both of the art cycles. 

Romana Veselá