About

Julie Machallova

Education

• University of Ostrava, CZ Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Painting
• University of Ostrava, CZ Faculty of Education, Art Education
• Art Highschool Ostrava, CZ Department of Painting

Study Art Internship

• Escuela de Arte de Sevilla, Spain Department of Mosaic, Mural techniques and Enamelled Jewelry

Other Interships

• ETI executive/training/institute Malta – CLIL methods for art education
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore Luca Signorelli, Cortona, Italy – multimedia art workshops

My artistic exploration: “ Love and female sexuality“

“Everything in our lives is a mirror.”

I work with fragility of love, intimacy, especially today, when relationships are fragile and love is like a phenomenon. 

My question is if  true love exists.

These paintings explore fragility of love, desires, female sexuality and instrospection.

Overall, my paintings are connected with beauty of moment, silence, loneliness and memories.

I work a lot with psychology – Freud and Jung. I did research of my own destruction of lost love – when you desire for someone, but you lost them for various reasons. Jung psychology is love as a mirror – projection – anima and animus – inner woman and inner man. Anima is the man’s feminine part, which is initially unconscious, and animus is the woman’s masculine part. These archetypes appear in dreams, in fairy tales, in movies, and in literature.

For me, it is a way to myself, realizing that we must fill love myself, love own life, and then we can love someone. And important is never lost myself.

My sexual part is connected with Freud and Jung – Libido is sexual desire. In psychoanalysis, libido is a term for manifestations of the sexual instinct, the basic instinctual energy, and sexual desire, which originates from the subconscious and is directed towards the attainment of pleasure.

That desire is connected to the fact that we women want to be seen. We donť have the roles of being mothers, but we want to be seen, we want someone desire us. It is not connected to age. Every woman in every age wants to feel like a woman, to feel beautiful and desires about intimacy.

Female sexuality is the way to a woman’s freedom – to accept own body, even if it is not perfect. … freedom of jealousy and selfconfidence.

She appears to be an ecstatic beauty among abandonment, nostalgia, and eroticism. The painting speaks of dreams and abandonment to reality, and of the body and life.

Roberto Mastroianni  (Philosopher, Anthropologist, Ph.D., Art Critic and Curator, Torino, IT)

Paintings with architecture

The environment plays an essential role in Julie’s paintings, the scenery in which the figure is set. For the most part, they are made up of monumental scenes that fill the background, and it does not matter whether they are urban or natural landscapes. They encode the feeling of being in humble relation to a transcending entity. Julie likes to stop time in paintings.

Certainly, for Julie Machallova’s painterly thinking, the common theme is one of uncompromising solitude. The visual action actor is burdened by our attention, voyeurically observed, grappling with something serious. But the severity is not demonstrated by a radical dynamic gesture; on the contrary, the figures are mostly calm and static. Julie likes to stop time in paintings.

  texted by Jaroslav Michna (art critic and curator and curator Gallery of Fine Art Ostrava)