Dagmar Šubrtová is an artist whose practice is based on pure material sculptural work. She was born in Duchcov in northern Bohemia and has been living and working in the Kladno region for a long time. For Dagmar, an artist and curator, her work is mostly site-specific (i.e. she creates original work directly for a given place), where she tries to experience the matter and space together with its transformation. Her artistic work is inherently linked to the post-industrial character of the landscape, where coal was or is still mined, and the impact of mining on its surroundings. Both black and brown rock - coal - which is perceived negatively nowadays, forms an important essence in her works.
As a curator, she led the Mayrau Gallery in the Hornický Skanzen in the former Mayrau underground mine near Kladno in the period 2002-2010. And this is where the author and I are heading again. Her fascination with the coal heaps, their specific impact on the surrounding area - fauna and flora - bringing a rich character to the post-industrial landscape comes to the forefront of her interest. The author examines the power of nature and at the same time presents the superiority of a unified landscape. The exhibition is inspired by transformations in which the will of nature plays an important role as a catalyst and responds to a hyper-informed society that misses the importance of ignorance and mystery. So let's take a look at the special places of the heaps and let nature take a path of natural renewal and special beauty..
Sometimes Everything Comes from Afar
Dagmar Šubrtová
Galerie Lázně Liberec - OGL
curator Tea Záchová
13 June 2024 — 13 October 2024