Lot 194

Jindra Viková (1946) SWEET MOMENTS

Art historian Tomáš Vlček wrote for the catalogue of the exhibition J. Viková – Ceramic Sculpture, P. Baňka – Photographs, in Chicago (1991):

"The visions that are projected into Jindra Viková's ceramic objects are linked to attractive details of ideas of sensual beauty: to faces abstracted from the ideas and perceptions of female idols of the time, including perceptions of one's own face. The lips and eyes are key. These details appear in the flat space of the surface of ceramic sculptures as artistic motifs, such as colors, lines, shadows."

One could say that Sweet Moments (1982) almost personify this interpretation of Jindra Viková's ceramic objects. The sensual eye expression and the red lips with tongue sticking out are in the foreground, in the centre of attention. The single green earring and a fleeting "shadow" of curly hair – a fashionable hairstyle of female idols of the 80s – serve as a contrast and a background. Green vector lines surrounding the lips point from the plastic balls – "candies" – to the tip of the tongue, that is, where the human tongue has the most sweet taste receptors. At the same time, however, they also lead under the tongue and to the root of the tongue, where, on the contrary, the "bitterness" receptors predominate. Here, Viková suggests in a very playful way that the sweet moments of life, unfortunately, cannot do without bitterness.