Dominika Prinzova
University: Masaryk University
Graduation Year: 2015
New Blood Art Commentary
Employing a unique language of abstraction with a fresh take on landscape painting, Dominika Prinzova seeks to represent her subject matter on a macro level through the power of suggestion. Thrilling flashes of saturation emerge as moments of clarity from her otherwise enigmatic, muted and small-scale compositions. Prinzova's concern with the visual rather than narrative information provided by her subject allows her to recontextualise her subject: embracing its mystery by implementing moments of full abstraction and playing with an upside-down orientation. A vagueness in the work allows the viewer to latch onto a recognisable stroke, colour or feeling, as these single elements begin to stand in for the pursuit of representing the perhaps unrepresentable entirety of any particular subject.
Artist Statement
In my work, I seek to get beyond the superficial appearance of things. I look at a variety of subject matter, at the moment landscape and figuration. I am more interested in suggestion rather than literal narration: the visual aspect always excites me more than the narrative background; an element of mystery, unspoken lines suggesting the whole mass, the whole space, a core which is hard to comprehend except through the means of visual art.
“Where does one object end and the other begin?” has been a recurring question of mine.
Group Exhibitions
(2019) 44 Hallam street residency, 44 Hallam street, London
(2019) Winter salon, Leyden gallery, London
(2018) Platform for Emerging Arts#19, Leyden gallery, London