BEHIND THE SOUMRAK

"My soul speaks through the brush..." Discovering the urge to create something begins with a journey into the inner self. We speak to our minds and search for the spark of that which captures us and will not let go. For Silvia Kořistkova, the path to the self leads through colours, shapes and structures. Her dreams press their faces into the canvases where they are locked for eternity. Silvie has been painting and creating since she was a child, but entered the art world as a visual artist in 2018 with a desire to share her paintings with a wider audience. Most often she creates abstract geometric paintings, which she sees as an exploration, a search for harmony and release. By painting abstractions, time stops for her and the space around her merges with the space within. The abstractions are therefore a testimony of a conversation with her subconscious and therefore appear liberated and balanced. The theme of "woman" in her work is also not left behind and becomes a natural starting point in observing her surroundings. Her series of nudes "In the Moon's Woods" is dedicated to the study of our innerfeelings, passions and insecurities, stripped of the robes of artifice and make-believe that we wear during the day. Body language does not lie. She has therefore chosen to embody moments in which we reflect not only on the object under scrutiny, but also on ourselves. At a time when everyone can find sex inspiration on the erotic sites of the Internet, the painter Silvie Kořistková comes up with an interesting confrontation. Her collection of paintings, Gentle Curves, is based on the traditional concept of the female nude, found since the Renaissance in the works of Michelangelo Buanorroti, who which brings together European artistic traditions from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, or in Sandro Botticelli's painting "The Birth of Venus", which expresses an almost dreamlike conception of the female body. It is her original take on this genre that brings the viewer an aesthetic experience. Her work on personalities, especially musicians, portrayed in a metallicpigments, where, for example, brass instruments glitter with real 24-carat gold applied to the structure. The characters thus come to life and emerge from the canvas in 3D. Silvie Kořistková's works are presented in several solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic. She is gaining an international presence and becoming known to domestic and international collectors. In 2023, she participated in the XXVth PREMIO INTERNATIONALE D'ARTE in Italy, where she received an international jury award for her work. In 2024, she donated the painting to the Good Auction for the Czech Diakonia in the Gallery at the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague. She also donated the proceeds from the auction of the painting at an exhibition in Poland to the disabled Helen Stockwell. Exhibitions, 2019: Author exhibition at BEAUTY BODY CLINIC, Prague, Author exhibition at ALO KAFE, Frýdek - Místek., 2019 - 2021: Author exhibition at INNEX, Prague, 2021: Author exhibition at BE LOVELY, Prague, International exhibition ART IN PRAGUE at U Zlatého Kohouta Gallery, Prague, Author exhibition at PAM agency, s.r.o., Ostrava., 12 December - 7 January 2022, 29 June - 22 August 2022: ART AMI exhibition, MonAmi Gallery, Bílovec, 7 July - 26 August 2022: Group exhibition at GALERIE POD VĚŽÍ, Mladá Boleslav, 22 October 2022: International exhibition ART IN PRAGUE 2022 in Galerie U Zlatého Kohouta, Prague., 11.11. - 31.12. 2022: Author exhibition at the FASHION STORM event, Silesian Ostrava Castle, Ostrava., 25.11.2022: Author's exhibition in Gallery ZIVOT, Blood Centre FN OSTRAVA, Exhibition of nudes at the event BOHEMIAN TABOO ROADSHOW Akropolis Palace, Prague., 2019- 2023: solo exhibition at SKELET KAFE, Ostrava., 30 - 31 October 2021: solo exhibition at Galerie MonAmi, Bílovec., From 2021- 2023: International Festival OPEN ART FEST, Prague - Holešovice Exhibition Centre, 6 April - 26 April 2023: solo exhibition at STEINER VIENNA GALLERY, Vienna - AUSTRIA., 2 June - 31 August 2023: joint exhibition of 3 artists 3 LIVES at TWINART GALLERY, Prague, 9. - 31. 10. 2023:Solo exhibition in ZÁMEČEK PETROVICE U KARVINÉ., 7. - 22. 10. 2023: solo exhibition in MORITZ GALLERY, Chateau in Bílovec 7., 28 - 29.10.2023: 25th PREMIO INTERNATIONALE D'ART, San Crispin - ITALY., 24th Jan - 17th Feb 2024: Slovanský dům, Prague., 6.3. - 8.3.2024: Prague art meeting, Ambit Gallery, Prague Author exhibition., 3.4. - 30.4.2024: Hotel Crystal Mountain, Wisla - POLAND, 25 - 28 April 2024: Exhibition DVA Coffe&Bar, Ostrava., Miami Art Basel Red Dot Art Show, USA Awards. 28th Annual PREMIO INTERNATIONALE D'ARTE in Italy.

18 May to 31 May 2024. Semily, Husova 5. ORIGINAL GALLERY.