About the Artist
Lucie Kunzová Filimonova (born 23.7.1979 in Náchod) Daughter of high school teacher Jaroslav Vaisar and artist Věra Koudeláková, she was guided from an early age by her mother Věra to love art. In 1990, at the age of eleven, she came under the professional care of academic painter Ivo Švorčík. She then graduated from the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Turnov as an artistic metal engraver (1995-1999). There, she deepened her knowledge in drawing, painting, and sculpture under the guidance of academic sculptors Pavel Brožek and Jaroslav Marek. After completing her studies, she worked as an artistic ceramic designer, taught art education with methodology at a high school for three years, and privately taught portrait and figurative drawing. She now fully dedicates herself to creation in her studio in Mladá Boleslav, where she also continues to guide young people toward art. Lucie has participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions. Her paintings and sculptures can be found in art collections around the world. In 2012, director Hana Pinkavová made a documentary about Lucie for Czech Television as part of the series The Fate of Talent.
She is the first Czech artist in the "Vatican of Orthodoxy," the Great Lavra Bell Tower in Kyiv, and a laureate of the Identification Code of Slovakia for 2018.
She is the first Czech artist in the "Vatican of Orthodoxy," the Great Lavra Bell Tower in Kyiv, and a laureate of the Identification Code of Slovakia for 2018.
What They Say About Me
"The focus of Lucie Filimonova's artistic interest is the human being. She is fascinated by the beauty of the body and soul. She admires the dynamic functional arrangement, its shapes and curves. The soul hidden in the body flickers in fleeting moments. Some subjects come to her in dreams. It would seem that they only need to be captured on canvas. Lucie loves the work of the French symbolist Odilon Redon. In the spirit of symbolism, winged people often appear in her paintings, who are more like Icarus than angels. She enjoys depicting composite beings, mythological creatures, and gods. For her, they are always a symbol of the relationship between worlds. Lucie likes the Russian portrait school, but symbolism always enters her portraits. Her portraits are never mere contents."
Ivo Švorčík, painter
That story from a parental home was about an artist who started to create driven by the strong feeling to express herself otherwise, by the speechless desire to tell everyone what is important. It was the identity of experiences from childhood and youth, the impression of phenomena that have always been important to us, the message of love—these are the stories reflected in the author's pictures. The same question lies there: Who are we actually, and what fascinates us? Still the same answer: search, and maybe you will find it.
Life from her paintings has been entering our lives for a long time. They captivate, motivate, speak to us. The narrativity of her work bears an unforgettable expression, which belongs to the top in art. The author is Lucie Filimonova, a fine artist who creates present cultural values.
Contemporary art is a mixture of prettiness and emptiness, complicated incomprehensible uselessness, but also creative harmony of expressive quality, involved in its original purpose—sovereign skill in art techniques and composition procedures. Further, there is an idea and originality. Emotion is a messenger of the experience from the picture even today. Without exaggeration, these qualities are joined in the work of Lucie Filimonova.
Each of her paintings or pictures bears a fabulous dream, the psychology of personality, or imminent love. That is why her work refers so much to humanism. The author's studio is full of humanity because we need it. Further, I would like to emphasize that her work is very contemporary for its dominant emphasis on a thought or idea. On the other hand, it shakes off contemporaneity with its precise reality that draws the attention of all kinds of people and makes them enter the realm of intellectuals.
Lucie has participated in dozens of individual and collective exhibitions. Her works can be found in art collections at home and abroad. Lately, she exhibited her works as the first Czech artist in the "Vatican of Orthodoxy," the Great Lavra Bell Tower in Kyiv. She is a laureate of the Identification Code of Slovakia for 2018. She lives and works in Mladá Boleslav.
Actually, as well as looking for answers, her story will never end. She is like a messenger of knowledge on the path where good from evil must be distinguished.
"Lucie is a real star of contemporary art. She is a contemplative philosopher, playful intellectual, tolerant but demanding. She is a master of drawing and creative tension."
PhDr. Ľuboslav Moza PhD.
President of the Artem association
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
September 2018
Ivo Švorčík, painter
That story from a parental home was about an artist who started to create driven by the strong feeling to express herself otherwise, by the speechless desire to tell everyone what is important. It was the identity of experiences from childhood and youth, the impression of phenomena that have always been important to us, the message of love—these are the stories reflected in the author's pictures. The same question lies there: Who are we actually, and what fascinates us? Still the same answer: search, and maybe you will find it.
Life from her paintings has been entering our lives for a long time. They captivate, motivate, speak to us. The narrativity of her work bears an unforgettable expression, which belongs to the top in art. The author is Lucie Filimonova, a fine artist who creates present cultural values.
Contemporary art is a mixture of prettiness and emptiness, complicated incomprehensible uselessness, but also creative harmony of expressive quality, involved in its original purpose—sovereign skill in art techniques and composition procedures. Further, there is an idea and originality. Emotion is a messenger of the experience from the picture even today. Without exaggeration, these qualities are joined in the work of Lucie Filimonova.
Each of her paintings or pictures bears a fabulous dream, the psychology of personality, or imminent love. That is why her work refers so much to humanism. The author's studio is full of humanity because we need it. Further, I would like to emphasize that her work is very contemporary for its dominant emphasis on a thought or idea. On the other hand, it shakes off contemporaneity with its precise reality that draws the attention of all kinds of people and makes them enter the realm of intellectuals.
Lucie has participated in dozens of individual and collective exhibitions. Her works can be found in art collections at home and abroad. Lately, she exhibited her works as the first Czech artist in the "Vatican of Orthodoxy," the Great Lavra Bell Tower in Kyiv. She is a laureate of the Identification Code of Slovakia for 2018. She lives and works in Mladá Boleslav.
Actually, as well as looking for answers, her story will never end. She is like a messenger of knowledge on the path where good from evil must be distinguished.
"Lucie is a real star of contemporary art. She is a contemplative philosopher, playful intellectual, tolerant but demanding. She is a master of drawing and creative tension."
PhDr. Ľuboslav Moza PhD.
President of the Artem association
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
September 2018