Lucie Mičíková: Waveplane

Lucie Mičíková graduated from the Department of Intermedia led by prof. Ilona Németh at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. During her studies, she was a co-curator with others co-curators Ludmila Horňáková and Zuzana Žabková the alternative apartment gallery Björnsonova 2 in Bratislava that no longer exists. The Björnsonova 2 Gallery was in a spacious six-room apartment with seven roommates. They held approximately six exhibitions – parties – that took place in the kitchen, on the balcony and in the bathroom. They wanted to incorporate their exhibitions into the regular running of the household. Back then, this gallery complemented the gallery structure in Bratislava very well.

Lucie Mičíková has already established her own specific art form that balances between change and immobility. The flow content is hidden under the form that exploits the principles of rotation and is interested in transient objects and collages, with a focus on their material essence. Her exhibition is based on drawings from her two-week residence, during which she concentrated on energy flow, specifically in an olive grove. She made her initial sketches during her residence and later on made them into collages. She used the tree structure in her sketches and photographs as an initial art material that she then cut up and modified. Lucie also became interested in a waveplane, a physical phenomenon that means a set of points in a space oscillating in a wave of the same phase. In general, it can be compared to the vibration of physical energy that occurs when we throw a stone in the water and the stone creates multiple rings. Lucie Mičíková further developed these inspirational sources by splashing the canvas through templates and letting energy flow against the fragments of reality.

Lenka Sýkorová