A compendium of imagined flora and fauna,
The Secret Lives of Plants features the otherworldly botany of
Anna Zemánková (1908 - 1986).
Over 30 years, the self-taught Czech artist evolved her voluminous abstracted pastels into a delicate threaded vegetation drawn from the regional histories of folkloric making.
The museum-calibre works featured in
The Secret Lives of Plants reflect the multiple stages of
Zemánková’s artistic output. These include a number of highly reproduced images, alongside pieces formerly selected by curator Massimiliano Gioni.