Trees Grow from the Sky

The exhibition presented an eponymous installation featured at the prestigious contemporary art exhibition La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Arte 2022, bringing it from Venice to the Czech public. Over the seven months of Biennale Arte, Plesl’s work was seen by almost a hundred and fifty thousand visitors.

The second part of the exhibition revealed the most current positions of Plesl’s work in the medium of glass. The visually striking composition of objects of rather intimate character in the morphology of wild roses, sharp thorns and crafting tools were transformed into sensual, subversive, almost unsettling images. Plesl created mysterious and dreamy landscapes capturing the artist’s perception of classic categories of art history. The form of the installation, however, did not allow a romantic diction, rather giving strict expression to the current notion of the medium.