Marcela Vichrová – I’ve Gone to Visit the Butcher

For Marcela Vichrová, a basic and dominant element in the painting is the line. More than merely delineating surfaces or defining contours, the line possesses power, tension and an almost haptic quality. In the alternation of bright colours, her curves repeat and return, one following another. The structures that emerge resemble embroidery, layers of quartz in agate, print matrices or maps. Every trace is its own, and even if it deviates slightly, it does not lose its fixed connection to the whole, which in the end tends to more closely resemble a unique variation on symbolic representation than an actual animal, human being or object.