Jitka and Květa Válovy

In between November 10 2005 and February 5 2006 The Lidice Gallery there will hold an exhibition of some of the most important Czech artists Květa and Jitka Válovy.

The sisters Jitka (1922) and Květa (1922-1998) Válovy both studied at the Academy of Arts (VŠÚP) and then lived and created in a family house in Kladno. Both of them are figure painters. Jitka set her main motive – contest, in very meaningful images (Disaster, The Man and Steel). In the 1960s she joined the movement of new figure painting and in her paintings she engaged herself into the motives of relationships between human bodies,

their touches, gambadoes and falls and in the 1990s smooth motives of shoring.

Květa also sympathized with the new figure painting movement. She blew up her shapes into gigantic proportions and filled her paintings up with fragments of hands, faces, eyes and mouth. In 1970s she added the cycle " Stones and People" to the cycle "People machines" (1970s) and in 1990s the theme of mercy (Good Samaritan).

The Vála sisters obtained a Hamburg Herder's award for their work in 1994.