Martina Drozd Smutná | High Heels

One of the most original artists of her generation and laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký Awards. A woman in the night landscape that is bending to adjust her shield - elegance and inappropriateness in a single picture. Limited edition 100pcs (The edition is divided in a ratio of 70 pcs in size L and 30 pcs as XL), numbered, signed by the author.

Print Technique:	giclée, archive 12 -color pigment print
Paper:	100% cotton paper Hahnemühle Photo RAG 308G
Print dimensions (l):	68 × 50 cm \| 72 × 54 cm (Print \| Frame)
Print Dimensions (XL):	100 × 74 cm \| 104 × 78 cm (Print \| Frame)
Original:	130 × 90 cm oil on canvas, available
Frame:	Wooden with UV plexiglass in the museum standard

Frame Frameless Black frame Wooden frame with oak veneer

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Martina Drozd Smutná (*1989) is a graduate of the doctoral program in the studio of Intermedia II. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where she previously graduated from the Painting Studio II. She was the finalist of the critics' prize for young painting (2014), EXIT Awards (2015) and also the Laureate of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award (2022). She participated in residential programs in Matadero Madrid, the Yzolyatsia Cultural Center in Kiev or the Czech Center in Bucharest. He exhibits regularly and group regularly on the Czech scene and abroad, eg in the Mladé Gallery in Brno (2020), Gallery in Ostrava (2020), Prague National Gallery (2019 and 2022), NOD Gallery in Prague (2018) or Mattar of Art (2024). Kunsthale Trafo in Štětín (2021) at the Baltic Triennial in Lithuania (2021) or in the EXILE Gallery in Vienna (2021).

Martina Drozd Smutná is a painter with an unmistakable manuscript. Her paintings from both historical and contemporary perspectives reconsider questions of gender, social inequalities and related power structures. Human bodies in predominantly figurative paintings are often fragmented, reinforced and reinforced. The themes of family and relationships in general prevail, the author often plays with a swap of stereotypical gender roles - for example, she depicts a worried and exhausted father in stylization, whose "heroine" is usually a woman. Many paintings are devoted to strong female characters, often despite their difficult situation - whether she is a working woman, mother or bride. The thrush also reviews social hierarchy in its paintings. There is the theme of elites, superiority and subordination, with a slight exaggeration set in the paintings of the aristocrats, red carpet, or capture the maids. The latest paintings are thematized by personal and society -wide fear of the future in times of global political, economic and environmental crisis. The work of the sadly breaks old order, is interwoven with a razor criticism and sometimes melancholy or sadness, but on the other hand it emphasizes the importance of relationships and belonging, mutual care and resistance.

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The image selected for the 100pcs platform captures a woman in the night landscape that is bend to adjust the slipper. On high heels in tall grass looks aesthetically, but also a bit inappropriate, as if the requirements for what it should look like, they did not quite correspond to the environment in which it is located. At the same time, the work plays with a typical depiction of "perfect femininity" - more than the pursuit of the perfect body, the character with slightly androgynous features expresses certain secrets also resulting from her corporeality.