baked schamotte clay, glaze, plaster 37 × 48 × 6,5 cm, signed on the front by viková 88, 1988
In the late 1970s, Viková created a series of relief tiles in which painting created the illusion of deep space. She exhibited them at the Mladá Gallery Front with paintings by Petra Oriešková, with whom she shared an interest in felines,
often depicted in motion with details of their anatomy. The work of J. Viková
has won a number of important international awards since the 1980s.
A constant in Jindra Viková's work is her attention to the human figure, both
to the whole figure as well as to its isolated fragments. In the first place, it is
the subjects of the head, the face or its silhouette. She found her way to them already as a young artist, when in her glazed ceramic likenesses from the late 1970s, she for the first time continued the long tradition of the sculptural bust.
She does not portray persons, she depicts people in their general features, in a look, gesture or attitude that can be outwardly, consciously or unconsciously,
to convey inner states and other contents. To the human face as as a general expression of human states and emotions, he continually returns to to this day.
Jiří Ptáček, Jindra Viková - Clay Woman, Alšova jihočeská galerie 17 September 2021 - 2 January 2022, Exhibition catalogue.
