Adriena Šimotová, A Minor Glance Back 1975–91

Museum Kampa has prepared on the occasion of Adriena Šimotová’s upcoming 85th birthday an exhibition that she herself entitled A Minor Glance Back (Menší ohlédnutí). The exhibition presents the work from 1975–91 focusing on her work with perforation and frottage in drawing, sculpture and layered relief. In theme and means of depiction, this thus consists of a group of works that represents one of the pinnacles of the artist’s creative life. The perforations exhibited will include monumental drawings on layered carbon paper that she made during her artist residency at the former Franciscan monastery in Hostinné, which was forcefully closed in the early 1950s. This monumental work is today one of the jewels of the Jan and Meda Mladek Foundation. An exhibition of the artist’s contemporary work in the Rudolfinum Gallery is linked to the exhibition at Museum Kampa.