Once Upon a Time in Žižkov, 75 x 95 cm

Once Upon a Time in Žižkov - Marie Ban

Once Upon a Time in Žižkov, oil painting on canvas, 75 x 95 cm, 2024
This picture was painted on the occasion of the exhibition “Homage to Jaroslav Seifert” organized by La Femme Gallery. When I opened Seifert’s book of poems at the beginning of this summer, I was sitting in Café Pavlač, sipping a cappuccino and waiting for a visit to the nearby dentist. Žižkov surrounded me from all sides and got under my skin also from Seifert’s verses. Thoughts of his childhood and adolescence took me to the old Žižkov streets of the early 20th century. And one of this visions later found its way onto my canvas, which then turned yellow just like the pages of the century-old books. Stories from the streets of Žižkov that no one remembers anymore.