Tereza Mátlová

Bio

(*1996)

A certain principle of human absence is essential in the work of Tereza Mátlová, who is currently studying Painting Studio I (led by Daniel Balabán) at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music OU in Ostrava. She works with color in an unprecedented way. The color is decisive. And somewhere around or in the center of the painting there are figure(s). It emerges non-violently from the color spectrum of the layered plans and strengthens the composition by connecting the initial intention with the resulting reality. The confluent, dematerialized, overlapping color fields of Matlová's canvases invite the eye to enter their lower layers and search for the contours of overpainted, translucent shapes on the edge of legibility. Color denies the desire for form and is at the same time what enables its expression.

Studies:
2020–nyní Painting Studio (leaded by D. Balabán), Faculty of Fine Arts and Music OU, Ostrava, CZ
2012–2016 Applied Painting, Secondary School of Art and Design and Higher Professional School Brno, CZ

Solo Shows:
2023 MAOM, Sádrový ježek, Ostrava, CZ
2022 Elysion, Galerie XOXO, Ostrava, CZ

Group Shows:
2024 Postskriptum, Univerzitní knihovna ZČU Bory, Plzeň; Galerie Půda, Český Těšín, CZ
2024 Figurama, Galerie Mánes, Praha, CZ
2023 Remembrance, Galerie GAFU, Ostrava, CZ
2023 Novokraj, Galerie stará GAFU, Ostrava, CZ
2023 Intro, Galerie Nibiru, Ostrava, CZ
2023 Řečeno kresbou, VŠB Ostrava, CZ
2023 Namaluj Páva, Výstavní síň Bastionu IV, Josefov, CZ
2022 Souzním, brečím, nepoklečím, Univerzitní knihovna Plzeň; 2023 Plato Ostrava, CZ
2022 Valeč a český barok očima současných evropských umělců, Zámek Valeč, CZ
2022 Art of nature, Nová Gorica, SI
2022 Krypto, Galerie současného umění Prostějov, CZ
2022 Krajina kraje, Galerie Jáchymov, CZ
2021 Figurama21, Kampus Hybernská, Praha; 2022 Univerzitní knihovna ZČU Bory, Plzeň, CZ
2021 Permutace, Provoz u řeky, Ostrava; 2022–2024 Provoz u řeky, Ostrava, CZ