Exhibiting artists: Mirella Bentivoglio (AT/IT), Esther Ferrer (ES/FR), Marie Filippovová (CZ), Dorothy Iannone (USA), Françoise Janicot (FR), Olga Karlíková (CZ), Alena Kučerová (CZ), Emanuela Marassi (IT), Adriena Šimotová (CZ), Alžbeta Štefunková-Szabó (SK/CZ), Jana Želibská (SK)
Curated by Nadine Gandy and Jana Písaříková
The leitmotif of our exhibition is the provocative question of whether creating art in mature age can bring about a new kind of radicalism in artistic expression and thinking. The desire to experiment, discover, and act freely is usually attributed primarily to youth—but let's try to search for the unconventionality, radicalism, and freedom that we can preserve and further develop when we are over 80 years old.
Are we nearing the end or infinity?
What can we afford to risk, what else do we want to communicate, and what secrets do we want to uncover?
The exhibition Age of Possibilities brings together a generation of female artists born in the 1930s and 1940s, whose geographically, politically, and formally diverse artistic paths share a common feature: a bold search for new sensibilities. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the urgent challenges and questions that this sensitivity raises. The exhibition also brings together artists from the former socialist bloc with artists from Western countries, exploring the terrain of different experiences and how much these different conditions for creation are vitally important.
