Free fall

Falling into Oneself

When the name Patrícia Koyšová is mentioned, most of us think of cultivated, yet unconventional abstract paintings created with a compressor and airbrush. Amidst the flood of global and Slovak abstract painters, she managed to build her own, unmistakable artistic language. A language that has gained many supporters - including the author of these lines. Recently, under the influence of various life changes, she began to experience doubts, hopes, joy, and tension in a different way, which comes when searching for truth in art and in herself. The tools she had used until then were no longer sufficient for expressing these emotions, so she reached for ropes. She dipped them in paint and created large-format canvases with them. She swung them, and struck the canvas, sometimes with such intensity that the ropes painfully hit her own body. Thick ropes woven from many smaller fibers seemed to symbolize the complexity of human destinies. I was surprised by the richness of the structures that were created in this way. It was not only the distinctive imprints of the ropes, but the empty spaces hidden in a single stroke, tiny drops of paint flying off the rope before it even touched the canvas, strange abstract clusters and, above all, the energy of the act of creation itself. This way of creating naturally carries elements of action art. It is a form of completely exposing one‘s inner self. And exhibiting such works to the public requires great courage. I do not know whether Patrícia Koyšová will continue on this path or whether she will try to connect it with her previous work, which would be equally interesting. However, I am sure that this experience will remain etched in her memory forever. And with it, the trace she left on her canvases - perhaps the most personal in all her work to date.

Ecce homo! Ecce artista!