Artist Statement/ Biography

Gabriela Těthalová’s paintings are a mixture of many intertwining plans and permeable surfaces, organic shapes and undulating lines, bringing dynamics and an imaginary relationship to irregularity and unpredictability into the paintings in sharp contrast to the continuously reflected theme of repetition. Rigorous work with geometric shapes and a bold colour palette is combined with rapid gestural strokes that can evoke automatic or childlike painting. It is the combination of these elements that brings playfulness to the canvases, contrasted with a degree of restlessness of viewer‘s gaze flowing and trying to see the painting through all its layers. The composition, however, is broken up into many interlocking and overlapping surfaces that disrupt the ability to orient oneself in space.

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Gabriela Těthalová, born in 1988 in The Czech Republic, is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany, mainly interested in the medium of painting in both the traditional and broader sense. In 2020, she graduated from the Painting / Drawing studio of Prof. Jutta Koether at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Previously she studied Painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2013, she completed her Master’s degree in Mathematics at the Charles University in Prague.

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