Jetelová Magdalena *1946
Chair,1988
signed in pencil bottom right M. J. 88, inscription in pencil fűr Johanes on the reverse
Robottom lefteske M. J. 88, gouache, paper, 29,5 × 21 cm, mount, frame, glass
Provenance: label Galerie Walter Storms, Munich on the reverse.
The motif of the chair has been one of the most important themes since the late 1970s.
of the early work of Magdalena Jetelová (born 1946), a Czech artist working
from the 1980s onwards on the international art scene. The meaning of the ordinary
domestic furnishings was changed by Jetelová by consistently shifting the scale of
and exposing oversized sculptures to public space. Robust
wooden works, cut roughly with a chainsaw, she created in the city's
urban environment of fading socialism and subsequent political transformation
unexpected symbols. The chairs were exhibited at important group
exhibitions and one of them found a permanent place on the raft at Owl Mills
in Prague. Jetelová also portrayed the theme of the chair in her later work, in which from the end of
1980s, she turned to working with new technologies and lasers.
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