Lot 243

Jindra Viková (1946) DIANA ROSE

Although Jindra Viková is best known to the public as a ceramic artist, her multifaceted work goes far beyond this field. At the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Viková began working on a series of figural silhouettes. These were initially created using an extremely technically demanding process – working with the thinnest sheets of technical porcelain, from which the artist cut out delicate silhouettes. The silhouettes were completed in the heat of the kiln, and the resulting works were then composed in space. The combination of ceramic, porcelain, and painted portraits became and remains the artist's unique signature. The forms of the portrait silhouettes were based on rich layers of memory associations and personal visual memories, or were inspired by specific pop culture personalities. In this case, Viková imprinted the portrait features of American pop singer Diana Ross onto the silhouette. In the fragile material, Viková managed to capture not only fleeting facial expressions, but also reflections of emotions, fleeting smiles, and unconscious movements of the mind. The head, as the center of thought and the spiritual world, becomes one of the possibilities for understanding the web of interpersonal relationships that runs like a red thread through the artist's work. On the back, at the bottom of the silhouette, there is a date and the signature Viková 83.