Anna Matoušková (Kopecká)

Prague (Czech, b. 1963)
Matoušková is a part of what art historian, Sylvia Petrová, terms the “angry generation” of students of the glass studio at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, those  of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s who had seen the light of freedom and defied the Communist Regime in pursuing interdisciplinary activities and artistic choices that further enriched the  extraordinary post-war  glass art of the Czech Republic.

A pupil of the renowned artist and teacher, Stanislav Libenský, she refers to her glass objects as architecture. She is interested in the paradox that binds shape to certain dimensions and their possible variations according to the rules of proportion. For her, glass does not delimit space. Rather it is space.

Her fascination with the fundamentals of aesthetics is both deeply philosophical and elegantly pure:  a vocabulary of geometry – ovals, circles, cubes – enriched by the kinetic play of light that draws the viewer into her spaces.  Her cast dimensional forms are both seductive in their beauty and provocative as distillations of a conceptual, structural aesthetic.

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