Anna Zemánková

Anna Zemánková is a well-established figure in art brut, so much so that in 2003 she was honoured at the 55th Venice Biennale prior to a significant part of her works joining the collections of the Centre Pompidou. In the early 1960s, this modest Moravian began to produce a body of work for which her humble background had not prepared her with, and which responded in a striking way to injunctions from the innermost depths. When her nightly demons clashed with the shimmering colours of the dawn, she would imagine herself picking strange flowers which would in turn later jut out from her paper.
« I grow flowers that don’t grow anywhere else » she used to say.