Helena Hladilová. Fake Lake

Consistently with all her work , Helena Hladilovà ( 1983 Kroměříž, CZ) for the first solo exhibition at CO2, creates a strong relationship between the artworks and the space that hosts them, triggering a process that makes closest the meanings of content and container.

In Fake Lake the gallery is colonized by a series of fountains made specifically for the show, each one in a different material (plaster, clay, ceramic, latex, styrofoam, paraffin).

The continuous cycle of fluids within the fountains, interferes with the material that constitutes each work, giving rise to results different in form but similar in their transforming potential.

Corrosion and apparent manufacturing defects make up a living and self-sufficient system creating a crumbled human body. A concert for fountains, whose ending will be composed of matter transformed, residues and encrustation able to evoke a fake lake.

The project becomes a device that changes over time and that cooperates with the time, placing each work in the position of a living being, susceptible to changes due to the passage of time and to mutations that come from initial, subsequent and final environmental conditions.

Helena Hladilová (1983, Kroměříž, CZ), she lives and works in Italy.

Solo shows: 2014 – Fake Lake, CO2, Turin (IT); 6Artista, con Davide Stucchi, MACRO, Rome (IT); 2013 – PenA3, L’A Project Space, Palermo (IT) – Vitrine. 270°, GAM, Turin (IT) – Vitrine - Alle radici della democrazia, con Namsal Siedlecki, Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, Turin (IT); 2012 – NaCl,con Namsal Siedlecki, L’A Project Space, Palermo (IT) – Neco, m.odla Gallery, Prague (CZ).

Group shows (selection): upcoming – Maredolce, Komplot, Bruxelles (BE); 2014 – Point of view. Pitture imperfette, Galleria Fuoricampo, Siena (IT) – To continue. Notes towards a Sculpture Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT); 2013 – Display - Mediating Landscape, Sala Murat, Bari (IT) – Il rituale del serpente, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (IT) – UltimaT, GUM Studio, Turin (IT) – The cock-crow, CO2, Turin (IT) – Versus XIX, Velan Center, Turin (IT) – Expanded Painting - Prague Biennale 6, Prague (CZ); 2012 – White Columns - Artissima,Cripta747, Torino (IT) – Record, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice (IT) – Corso aperto, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como (IT) – Go West! - III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Muzeon Art Park, Moscow (RU) – Carte Blanche #6: Il Pittore che fuggiva il vento.Cinque artisti alla ricerca di Antonio Donghi, UniCredit Studio, Milan (IT).