New Website, New Blog!

Tereza Buskova has launched a new website with a new blog, please follow this link to keep up to date.....

www.terezabuskova.com

Beheading of the Cockerel donated to the Freedom From Torture Charity Art Auction

I am pleased to recommend attending the Biennial Freedom From Torture Charity Art Auction on 29th November 2011. All proceeds go directly to Freedom from Torture, helping survivors of torture and organised violence. There will be up to 60 artists' works available, many appearing in a silent auction with guide prices ranging from £250 to £6000.

Tereza Buskova has donated Edition 3/3 of Beheading of the Cockerel (2009) and I hear that it will be in the featured in the exciting live auction amongst the likes of the Chapman Brothers, Michael Craig Martin, Julian Opie, Paula Rego and Ian Davenport. Christie's Director, Piers Boothman will be the auctioneer for the evening.

Date: Monday 28th November

Time: Drinks and canapés from 6:30pm

Venue: Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, City of London EC2A 3PQ.

Website: : art.freedomfromtorture.org

If you can't make it on the night absentee bids can me made on line.

Buskova in the Woods - Long Live the Lincoln Art Programme

Installation Shots of 'The King of Lincolnshire' & a rare capturing of Tereza in her natural habitat

Breaking out of the white cube and thriving in Lincoln thanks to the fabulous LAP curators.

LAP Curator Alan Armstrong kindly noted that ' a highlight to the project was an installation by Tereza Buskova, who placed a huge billboard in the middle of the forest, exploring the mythology of the woodland in English History. “The billboard is an example of how we can show 2D work in a wood without being completely lost,” he said'...... Lincolnite review

The King of Lincolnshire - Charter of the Forest

'The King of Lincolshire' Production Shot

POLITICS OF LAND USE & WOODLAND MYTHOLOGY

CHARTER OF THE FOREST - 6th & 7th August - 11am to 3pm

Chambers Farm Wood, Hoop Lane, Near Wragby, Lincolnshire (FREE bus from Lincoln)

Tereza Buskova / Richard DeDomenici / James Wilkes and Townley & Bradby / Via Vaudeville! / Boyd Webb / Carey Young

Magic cows, animal protests, smoke signals, camping trips that go bump in the night...

FREE EVENT

FREE BUS from The Collection, Danes Terrace, Lincoln, LN2 1LP www.charter.eventbrite.com

Lincoln is approximately 1.5 hours on the train from London, with regular connections

The Collection is a short walk from the train station

The Charter of the Forest was outlined as a complimentary charter to the Magna Carter from which it originated, and was issued in 1217 by King Henry III. The charter is sometimes referenced as the Charter of the Common Man, as it was the first document to give land access and ownership rights to people outside of nobility or clergy. Lincoln Castle is the only site which holds a copy of both the Charter and the Magna Carter.

Chambers Farm Wood is a small part of the Lincolnshire Lime Woods site which stretches 60 square miles across Lincolnshire.

The Lime Woods contain around a quarter of the countries historical woodland along with a number of medieval Abbeys’ and archaeological sites, whilst various areas across the site have been designated sites of specific scientific interest.

The charters re-establishment of rights of access and the historical relevance of the Lincolnshire woodlands, act as a starting point for the artist’s commissions. The proposed selling of woodland under parliament and the verbal mythologies that have been passed down through generations exploring the rural of the countryside will be explored throughout the project.

Working in collaboration with The Collection, and The Forestry Commission, ‘Charter of the Forest’ will present a number of new artist’s commissions located throughout the woodland surrounding Chambers Farm Wood, that explore issues relating to land ownership and use of woodland space.

Tereza Buskova will present a staged tableau in the form of billboard situated within the woodland, exploring the mythology of the woodland in English history combined with the Celtic goddess Fidias and her magic cow.

Richard DeDomenici will be staging a live protest as the animals of Chambers Farm Wood receive eviction notices, the audience members are vital components to the piece which will be turned into a film.

James Wilkes and Townley & Bradby will take the audience on a tour of the woodland in a disjointed nature using a two way walkie talkie system, the audience will have to communicate with the artists at a distance, and ultimately fend for themselves.

Via Vaudeville! will combine tradition with contemporary covert emergency signals, combining the oldest form of communication, smoke signals, with the latest coded messages used within the public domain.

Boyd Webb will be screening an existing film where a pantomime horse and dog undertake a camping trip that goes horribly wrong.

Carey Young will also be screening an existing video work that repositions terms and conditions from websites onto the countryside, in an attempt question its saleability.

CONVERSE SUBMISSON OF THE WEEK: TEREZA BUSKOVA

The Mother of Masopust, Screen Print, Edition 3 + 2 AP

The Carollers' Wives, Screen Print, Edition 3 + 2 AP

These screen prints for Masopust have been kept under wraps up until Dazed & Confused selected them as Submission of the Week for the Converse/Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2011 in partnership with the Whitechapel gallery.

Susanna Davies-Crook has done a great feature and interview with her on Dazed Digital.......

Hopefully the judges will short list, exhibit and award her the overall prize, but for now it is good to see Masopust getting some much deserved exposure.....

Buskova Commission for Lincoln Art Programme

Book your coach seat from Lincoln's 'The Collection' to Chambers Farm Wood to see the Lincoln Art Programme's most interesting project to date.

Amongst the thoughtfully selected group of artists picked for this historic art event in the woods is Tereza.

She has been commissioned to produce a large scale print. A respect for our history and the natural world will be distilled and reincarnated into a liberated experimental billboard totem in the Woods.

There will be horns, the Haxey Hood and it will be opening on August 6th and 7th.

Depending on the weather, the print may be there until September 25th.

The Spring Rising at the Royal Academy Summer Show 2011

Image of Work in Progress for Giclee print edition of 20, The Spring Rising 2011

This year Tereza was invited by Royal Academician Chris Orr to submit her work to the Royal Academy Summer Show.

She took the opportunity to produce both a smaller and more affordable 20 edition print from her Spring Equinox project named 'The Spring Rising'.

Drawing on the ethos of her 176 Zabludowicz Editions this will make her work accessible to both experienced and first time collectors aiming to make acquisitions more efficiently in this age of austerity.

The seasonal cycles of fertility may enchant us like the initial beauty of this print, but I find that change is often painful. We only have to look the Arab Spring to recognise this. Here we see Winter and Spring embodied with peacefulness, pride, richness and poverty.

To see the finished print go to this year's Royal Academy Summer Show. Maybe you will need binoculars to spot it amongst the chaotic tapestry of Gallery I ..............