Michaela Maupicová

Michaela Maupicová’s (1982) artistic language can be characterised by the paradoxical term ‘meditative expressiveness’, since it combines the two seemingly contradictory approaches of rational constructiveness and, in places, an almost elemental immersion in limitless intuition.

Her pictorial compositions are primarily based on a complex relationship between two interlocking planes. The first of these is a kind of ‘cellular’ level of dynamic brushstrokes or sponge-prints, while the second is an overall system of geometric (integral, modular) configurations and plastic forms. In this approach we can recognise a metaphor of the endlessly interconnected nature of ‘measurable’ reality, from subatomic particles to galaxy clusters. In another sense we can interpret Maupicová’s images as the visualised fabric of the parallel ‘non-reality’ of human imagination in which a specific mental or emotional perception finds a tangible response in abstracted patterns. In Maupicová’s work, the notion of ‘ornament’ doesn’t therefore, have the connotation of something superficially decorative; instead, it has the role of a mutual point of entry between the domains of what is outwardly seen and inwardly felt.

The enigmatic character of Maupicov...

2006-2008
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague / Intermedia Studio of Prof. Milan Knizak
2002-2006
Academy of Fine Arts, Prague / Drawing Studio of Prof. Jitka Svobodova
2001-2002
Jewellery Collage, Jablonec nad Nisou
1996-2001
Secondary School of Applied Arts, Turnov

Solo exhibitions:
2016
Traits of Mind, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora
2015
Split Time, Topic Salon, Prague (with Mila Preslova)
2014
Edge of the Shadow, Regional Gallery, Liberec
2010
A Picture of Stealth, Knight Gallery, Liberec (with Vladimir Vela)

Selected group shows:
2015
Overture 1, Hauch Gallery, Prague
2014
Unter dem Jeschken, Stadtische Museen Zittau, Germany
2013
Hinter den Bergen, Waltecho Gallery, Chemnitz, Germany
Paint Three, Klenova Gallery, Klatovy
2012
The Geometer's Nigthmare, Topic Salon, Prague
Second Season, AMOYA, Prague
2011
Fundaments and Sediments, City Library, Prague City Gallery
2010
Contemporary Czech Painting and Sculpture, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery, Prague
2009
Finalists of the NG 333 Prize, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery, Prague
2008
AFA Graduands, Trade Fair Palace, National Gallery, Prague
2007
I Hate Nature, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt