Publication details
Eva Kmentová, Nohy
| Title in English | Eva Kmentová, Legs |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
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| Description | The study is devoted to the work of Eva Kmentová, an important representative of the new figuration. In the mid-1970s, Kmentová gradually began to abandon her classical sculptural work in connection with the outbreak of a serious illness, and in the later phase of her career she concentrated on drawings and paper reliefs and objects of an experimental nature. Among the very last fragments of the human body she cast in the breakthrough year of 1974 were legs. Kmentová cast the legs of her son Jasan in 1970 in the form of a relief, and four years later she returned to the subject in the sculpture now on offer. The almost architectural staticness, evoking a pair of columns, is disturbed by the structural representation of the surface, which tends towards associations with natural forms. The naturalism of the fragment of the son's feet recalls the sensual morphology of natural forms, as if it were a section of a deserted landscape with tree trunks. |